• What Have We Built Together? Shared Learning from the Community of Practice Series

    National Training and Technical Assistance Center Supporting children and youth with high emotional and behavioral needs is often lonely, overwhelming, complex, and not well-understood. How as a caregiver do you navigate school services, child welfare, and other involved systems to get the support you need for your child? How as school providers might we learn […]

  • Affirming and Supporting Our Children as they Go Back to School: Considerations for Families, Educators and Community Members

    Sponsored by SAMHSA  We have lived through unprecedented times as the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic, racial turmoil, political upheaval and even weather crises spread across our communities. From March of 2020 until this upcoming September of 2021, many schools were completely closed while others offered a hybrid model of education. Many parents were unexpectedly […]

  • Leadership Training Graduates Coaching and Support Group

    This group will focus on opportunities for leadership training graduates to serve on decision-making groups, provide coaching guidance for those who are already serving on groups or about to serve on groups and will be a place where graduates can discuss common concerns, problems and successes that will help them be more effective parent/caregiver leaders. […]

  • Parent Town Hall with the US Department of Education

    After a year and a half of grappling with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, students across the country are slated to return to school in person this fall. However, for many, especially parents, the return to in-person instruction has brought with it a variety of worries, hesitations, and questions: - Will my […]

  • Drop In Family Support Time

    This hour is open for any family member to drop in for all or some of the time to share any concerns or get feedback from others about handling different situations. We ask anyone who stops by to respect the confidentiality of the group and not share anything discussed in the group outside of the […]

  • Free Webinar: Supported Decision-Making in Health Care and Life Planning

    Parent to Parent USA Parent to Parent USA invites you to join us along with our partners at the Burton Blatt Institute for our next webinar on Supported Decision making presented by Jonathan Martinis. Supported Decision-Making is a way for people with disabilities to make their own decisions, with support from people they trust, and […]

  • The Work of SAMHSA’s Statewide Family Networks in the Lives of Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and their Families

    A SAMHSA sponsored webinar. The Statewide Family Network Program builds on the work of SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services which helped to establish a child and family focus in programs serving children and adolescents with mental health challenges around the country. The purpose of this program is to enhance state capacity and infrastructure to […]

  • Transforming Child Health Care Through Anti-Racist, Family-Driven Approaches

    The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) The child health care field is embracing a shift from the traditional child-focused model of well and sick visits to a more upstream preventive, holistic, and anti-racist focus on children, their families, and the systems and communities they interact with regularly. Despite a growing desire to improve care […]