Congress officially established National Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) in 1990, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) facilitates MIAW the first week of October each year. NAMI explains: "Mental…
Our Community Partnership Celebration is always a joyful evening of warmth and fellowship. Every one of you who is part of Families as Allies in any way means so much…
This fall, the Mississippi Senate Study Group on Women, Children and Families will hold four public hearings designed to learn the needs of families and young children in Mississippi. Lt.…
Please join us in honoring the most recent class of parent-peer supporters at our virtual graduation celebration this Friday, September 16, from 1 to 1:30 p.m. The number of parent-peer…
This past week Families as Allies had our quarterly "Families as Allies Live" on Facebook and Youtube. We hope you will watch the recordings of this event, but either way, we also wanted…
Congratulations to the 25 people, including 21 parents and caregivers, who completed Serving on Groups that Make Decisions Leadership Training on Saturday, June 24, in Jackson. We are so proud…
It was a pleasure to be back in person at the tenth annual Mississippi disAbility Megaconference on June 16 and 17 at the Jackson Hilton and to see many of you there.…
We are so excited to once again host in-person leadership training from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m on Saturday, June 25, at Hinds Behavioral Health in Jackson. This training is for…
The goal of the Child Health and Development Project: Mississippi (MS) Thrive! is simple: "Since brains grow rapidly during the earliest years, the project provides information and resources to improve developmental health…
Congratulations to our latest class of parent peer support graduates! They were one of our biggest classes yet and one of our most enthusiastic and insightful. We wish them well as they…