Are you supporting a young adult facing both mental health and substance use challenges?
Join us for the fifth and final 90-minute webinar in our Empowering Your Emerging Adult Series:
Putting It All Together: Support and Independence
Thursday, March 26th at 2:00 PM ET
Facilitators Charlotte Armstrong and Kirsten Drybrough, Family Peer Support Specialists and leaders of the Emerging Adult Series, invite you to continue this five-part journey. This session offers tools, heartfelt insights, and real-life success stories for parents and caregivers of emerging adults navigating mental health or substance use challenges, building on the four previous webinars in the Emerging Adult Series:
- Exploring Identity, Self-Discovery, and Social Connections
- Fostering Independence in Emerging Adults: A Balanced Approach to Growth and Connection
- Navigating Co-Occurring Challenges: Supporting Mental Health and Substance Use Together
- Mending Family Bonds: Healing Relationships During Recovery
Learn to bring what you’ve learned together, swap useful tips, and find the right mix of helping the person you support while letting them grow on their own!
What this Session Offers
- Reflect and Integrate: Connect key takeaways from the Emerging Adult Series, including topics such as identity & social connection; fostering independence; co-occurring mental health & substance use; and mending family bonds.
- Peer-Led Sharing: Hear lived-experience stories from parents who’ve turned lessons into practical, day-to-day approaches.
- Actionable Tools: Swap strategies for compassionate communication, boundary-setting, promoting autonomy, and repairing trust.
- Resource Exchange: Share and gather resources such as books, groups, and tools that have supported families through recovery.
Why Attend?
- Turn learning into practice: Apply strategies from the full series to your family’s situation.
- Lean on peers: Gain encouragement and approaches from other parents who’ve walked this path.
- Strengthen relationships: Learn ways to support independence while rebuilding trust and fostering healing.
With decades of lived experience supporting their own families through mental health and substance use challenges—and extensive training as Family Peer Support Specialists—Charlotte and Kirsten bring unmatched empathy, wisdom, and practical guidance to every session. Their expertise, heartfelt storytelling, and practical tools make this series a must‑attend for parents and caregivers. They’ve walked this path themselves and offer the guidance, encouragement, and hope you need to support your emerging adult’s recovery and well‑being.
From building resilience to navigating challenges, this series equips you with the knowledge and confidence to support your young adult toward a thriving future. Don’t miss this opportunity to continue your journey with a supportive community.
Putting It All Together: Support and Independence
Thursday, March 26th at 2:00 PM ET