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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
Join CAFÉ TAC for 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, at 2:00 PM ET on Wednesday, January 29th. Register 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
Family Mental Health: Navigating the Holidays
Are you a parent, family member, or caregiver supporting someone who lives with a mental health condition? Are you already starting to worry about the holidays? Then check out CAFÉ TAC’s recent webinar in our ongoing series for families and caregivers, Family Mental Health: Navigating the Holidays. View the recording here! While the holidays are a time of celebration and connection, they can also bring about challenges. Families of people with mental health conditions often face issues ranging from an increase in stress, anxiety, or other difficult feelings for the person they are supporting, to additional conflict within the family and challenges with managing expectations. This makes the role of caregiver even more complicated and stressful than it is at other times of the year. Join us for a transformative 90-minute webinar designed to help you navigate the season with a bit more preparedness and a bit less stress. Learn
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.