Events & Training

April has traditionally been recognized as Autism Awareness Month, but there have also been groups and individuals who for many years have stressed changing the language to Autism Acceptance Month. In this press…

Families as Allies is doing a series of trainings on the Procedural Safeguards, or as they are subtitled and we encourage families to think about them, Your Family’s Special Education Rights. These rights apply…

Families as Allies is doing a five-month-long focus on different parts of the Procedural Safeguards. The Safeguards describe the rights of families and children related to special education. In February we…

Are you eager to make the systems that serve our children better? Would you like to partner with policymakers to make sure that decisions about families and children are never…

The CHAMP Project and Families as Allies are partnering to host a virtual summit on child telepsychiatry this Saturday, February 20 from 8:30 - 11:30 AM.  Telepsychiatry is meeting with a psychiatrist…

Every year in January Families as Allies hosts our New Year Open House. Old and new friends come to enjoy each other’s fellowship, catch up with each other, and eat…

In late 2019, the Mississippi and Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry partnered with the CHAMP Project and Families as Allies to apply for a…

The Mississippi State Department of Health has asked us to tell you about this survey about COVID-19 vaccines. They would like to make sure the survey results reflect the opinions of the…

Each year, Families as Allies has an open house in January that brings families, supporters, providers, state partners and policymakers together to enjoy good food and each others' company. It…

The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) is ready to launch, and they're holding Meet-and-Greet sessions for the project led by the National Federation of Families. Families as Allies…