Children's Mental Health Awareness Week is next week. We encourage you to explore these resources and information from the National Federation of Families. The theme of this year's script is Flip…
The Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP) of the Mississippi Department of Education meets by Zoom this Wednesday, April 28, at 10 a.m. You can attend the meeting by phone or online.…
The new National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) -- of which our national organization, the National Federation of Families, is a partner -- would love your input! If you…
Making A Plan (MAP) teams are local groups that support children and youth (up to 21 years of age) with serious emotional/behavioral disorders or serious mental illness who: • are…
Each week in July we have shared information with you about school re-opening. This week we ask you to share information with us by completing this survey about school return during…
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…
We shared with you in a June 1 blog post that the proposed revisions to the 2016 Mississippi Department of Mental Health (DMH) Operational Standards were open for public comment. We…
Last week we told you that Senate Bill 2610, which creates a position for a full-time mental health coordinator to examine and make recommendations about the community mental health centers and other…
The proposed revisions to the 2016 Mississippi Department of Mental Health (DMH) Operational Standards are now available for public comment. You can view them on the MS Secretary of State’s…
Wendy Bailey, Administrative Services Deputy Executive Director for the Mississippi Department of Mental Health asked us to share the following update with all of you. Ms. Bailey can be reached…