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Join CAFE TAC for Family Mental Health: Enabling vs. Empowering
Caregiving for a loved one living with mental health challenges and/or substance use issues is a delicate balance. As caregivers, it’s essential to recognize when our actions might be enabling unhealthy behaviors rather than empowering our loved ones to take control of their own lives and find a self-directed path to recovery. Enabling can often stem from a place of love and concern, but it can inadvertently keep our loved ones stuck in their challenges. On the other hand, empowering involves providing the right support and tools to help them build resilience and independence. Join us for Family Mental Health: Enabling vs. Empowering, a free 90-minute webinar on Wednesday, March 5th at 2:00 ET, where we’ll delve into the critical distinction between enabling and empowering. We’ll explore how to identify enabling behaviors, such as consistently rescuing your loved one from their responsibilities, and how to shift towards empowering actions that
Focus 2.0: New Year, New Resources
The latest edition of CAFE TAC’s Focus 2.0 newsletter is here! This time, we celebrate the New Year by sharing a great new compendium of resources, the Consumer Network Grants and National TA Centers Resource Kit. It includes resources and info from National Consumer TA Centers and Statewide Consumer Networks that can give you inspiration and great ideas about innovative peer-driven projects. We also share a cool new interactive resource that tracks the peer workforce in every state across the nation, and invite you to a critical conversation about supported education and mental health on campus. You’ll also find the latest edition of our “Capacity Corner” column, which returns to the idea of supporting your peer org workforce with some new ideas and strategies to keep everyone excited and invested. Check out the latest Focus 2.0 here!
Join CAFE TAC for Higher Ed Retention for Students with Mental Health Conditions
CAFÉ TAC recently hosted a 90-minute conversation on how colleges and universities can help students with mental health conditions remain in school and thrive in their educational journeys, Higher Ed Retention for Students with Mental Health Conditions. View the recording here! With the growing prevalence of mental health conditions among youth and young adults, today’s college students come to higher education with very different needs and experiences than their predecessors. Colleges and universities have made efforts to accommodate the unique mental health needs of students, with some just beginning to address the issue, and others with full fledged supported education programs. Additionally, students and families are often unaware of the supports available, or unfamiliar with how to find the supported education environment they need to succeed. There’s work to be done on all sides, with a need to inspire colleges to develop and/or expand innovative approaches to help students
About The CAFE TA Center
The CAFÉ TA Center is a program of The Family Café, a cross-disability organization that has been connecting individuals with information, training and resources since 1998. The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
We Exist to Help You
The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to providing quality training to consumers and advocates throughout the country. Consumers in the community need the right knowledge and tools to effectively organize, speak for themselves, and thrive in their daily lives. Thanks to the technology available, it has become relatively easy to connect with consumers and advocates and share resources without having to ask people to interrupt their daily routines by traveling to attend training.
Check Our Resource Bank
The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to connecting consumers, advocates and organizations with information and resources that can make a real difference for them, regardless of where they come from. That’s why we have created this section, to house those resources that partners, experts, peers and advocates and developed and chosen to share with others. We truly believe that our advocacy and capacity can be greatly enhanced by working together, not only across states and SAMHSA programs, but also across the entire spectrum of healthcare and human services advocacy.