Tuesday, May 7, 2024
5/7/2024
The Family Involvement Center (FIC) will become the statewide family network organization for the parents of children, youth, and young adults who have serious behavioral and mental health challenges in Arizona. The "Catalysts for Change(CFC) " project, will increase our abilities to further recruit, train, and mobilize diverse parent, youth, and young adults from around the state to provide mutual aid and to participate in state policy boards and advocacy events. FIC will work on the following goals and objectives:Goal 1: FIC will strengthen our statewide family network infrastructure to annually recruit and train 25 diverse parent and youth leaders and FIC workforce to provide mutual support to one another and/or to participate in local and state policy and system reform boards impacting mental health.Goal 2: Recruit annually 25 parent/family caregivers, youth, and young adults to participate in state planning and policy boards with 50% being from targeted populations (rural areas, LBGQT, and transition age youth, veterans, and recovery).Goal 3: Develop and deliver targeted training and technical assistance opportunities that will provide distance learning and face to face training opportunities to increase the skills and capacities annually of 75 parent and youth leaders, FIC and others in the behavioral health workforce.Cutting edge technology approaches will further develop our abilities to offer webinar and e-learning opportunities statewide; and we will host an annual statewide family network conference.
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