Families as Allies does the training for parents and other caregivers raising children who complete the Mississippi Department of Mental Health's peer support certification. One of the June participants, Jameka…
We have been keeping you updated on Senate Bill 2610, which creates a Coordinator for Mental Health Accessibility to conduct an assessment of Mississippi's mental health system. Both the Senate…
George Stewart is the president of the board of Families as Allies and has been involved with the organization for the past five years. Stewart and his wife Evelyn are…
In addition to the things we typically do, we are looking at two special focus areas in July. One, we want to learn from families what would be most supportive…
This is the final week of the regular session, so we're watching two pieces of 2020 legislation related to mental health. After we published this post, the conference committee's version…
Dr. Rodney Washington is a man of many accomplishments, especially in the field of education (you can read more about him at his bio below). But we wanted to talk…
In July, we want to learn from families what would be most supportive to you as you plan for your children's return to school and you think through all the…
Last Friday was Juneteenth, and the annual observance received more media attention than it typically does. Although we are not endorsing any particular perspective conveyed in the press, the increased…
We have been keeping you updated on Senate Bill 2610, legislation that proposes a new position for a mental health coordinator to perform a comprehensive review of Mississippi's mental health…
The Mississippi Department of Mental Health, or DMH, contacted us last week to let us know that the number of DMH employees (7712) we reported in this January 2020 update…