System of Care

 

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND HEALTHCARE REFORM?

JOIN THE MONTHLY FAMILY MEMBER COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE CALLS

 

 

 

 

 

Systems of Care/Bright Futures

Networking Summit

September 27, 2013

 

 

 

Click here to view the Summit Presentation

 

 

 

 

Arthur Center's

TREATMENT FAMILY HOME PROGRAM

(Now Recruiting)

 

Click here to view as PDF document

 

For more information contact:

 Angela Bellamy at [email protected]

  

 

 

 

 This event is hosted by:

Adair County System of Care

 

  

 

 

 

Children's Mental Health Week 2013

Article from the St. Joseph News-Press

by Garry Hammond

 

 

Click here to view the full article

 

 

Missouri Families 4 Families

Children's Mental Health Week 2013

Award Recipients

 

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Special Recognition and Memorial Awards

 

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Click here for a copy of the event flyer

 

 

 

Click here for a copy of the event flyer 

 

F.O.C.U.S Empowerment Group (Families Offering Children Unified Support) is a 501(c)(3) Family-Run organization. In 2008 we had 20 family members of children with mental health needs identify peer support, for both caregiver and youth, as a practice they felt was needed to provide a safe, supportive, caring and accepting environment they desired for their families. They identified goals to increase knowledge of disorders and effective treatment, reduced caregiver strain and isolation, increase the ability to effectively advocate for their children, improve satisfaction with family life, and improve their children’s ability to function at home, school and community.

The information we received from families and professionals helped us develop the FOCUS Empowerment Group Model.  For more than twenty years, peer-to-peer supports have been regarded as one of the most powerful and motivational tools to help families overcome the challenges of raising and supporting children with emotional, mental and behavioral disorders. Despite this fact, the current mental health system continues to focus on high cost services as opposed to funding low cost alternative services such as peer-to-peer family supports. FOCUS has for the past six years has been successful in supporting families and motivating them to support other families.

 

Visit www.focusempowermentgroup.com for more information
 

Children's Mental Health Week

  

May 5th - 11th, 2013

 

 
 

State Agency Tool Kit

(NEW)

School Based Tool Kit

(NEW)

Community Tool Kit

(NEW)

 

 

Mayor Proclamations

 

 

Event Celebration Page

 

2012 CMHW Celebration Page

 

 

A place to share your event successes with others. This will also become part of our available resources for celebrating CMHW in the future.

 

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SAMHSA wants to hear from YOU

Defining Trauma

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"Recipe for a Healthy Community"

 

from the

 

 National Council for Behavioral Health 

 

At this time of year — and all year long — I think about all that you do to improve the health and lives of people from coast to coast. Thank you for your steadfast and inspiring work, and for sharing with us the recipe for healthy communities. Happy holidays… from our kitchen to yours.

 

 

Please share this ‘recipe card’ with your stakeholders to demonstrate how vital your services are to the community. Click here to post this directly to your Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest pages, or print it to share in hardcopy (to add to your recipe book, of course).