“I Never Knew What Happened to Families”
It can be bittersweet to say good-bye to the interns who work with us. Venise Rankin, a Jackson State student completing her bachelor's degree in social work, finished her semester-long…
Suicide Prevention Month: Robin Minyard Feature at HottyToddy.com
September is both Suicide Prevention Month and National Recovery Month. Throughout the month we will be sharing recovery and suicide prevention stories that you share with us. Please feel free…
Video: The SEEDS Program in Holmes County
The SEEDS Program (Strategies for Emergency Empowerment for Delta Students) through the Community Students Learning Center in Lexington, MS is a program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to…
Inclusion…..Why We Don’t See It?
Guest blog by Florance Bass What is inclusion and why does it matter? Recently, I enrolled my son in summer care with a church childcare center. When I arrived for…
Flipping the Script Video: the CHAMP Team
The Child Access to Mental Health and Psychiatry service, or CHAMP, is a program out of the University of Mississippi Medical Center that Families as Allies is proud to be…
Video: “When Leaders Lead Leaders” – Families as Allies Leadership Training
This week, two of our leadership training participants—Jackie Easley and Haley Pridmore—join Joy Hogge, Henry Moore, and Coreaner Price from Families as Allies to discuss their experience from the leadership…
What Not to Expect
Guest blog by Stacey Spiehler, President-elect, Families as Allies Board When we’re pregnant with our children, we have hopes, expectations, dreams, whatever they may be called. An entire sector of…
What it Means to Be a Black Male Leader in the Nonprofit Sector
This article was written by George Stewart, President of the Board of Directors of Families as Allies. The other day I was reading an article titled “The Nonprofit Racial Leadership…
Lots of Cheers for CHAMP!
Families as Allies is delighted to be a partner on the CHAMP Project. CHAMP is an acronym for the Child Access to Mental Health and Psychiatry program which is a…
Dad Blog: George Stewart
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…