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Rapid-Fire Recovery Q&A with Cherene Caraco
CAFÉ TAC recently hosted a Rapid-Fire Recovery Q&A with our friend Cherene Caraco, peer leader, advocate, CEO of North Carolina’s Promise Resource Network, and 2022 Bazelon Center Innovator of the Year. View the recording here! Over the past year, Cherene has facilitated monthly conversations about innovative peer-centered, recovery-focused practices in mental health, touching on topics from warm lines and peer respites to human rights and systems-level change. (See the full list here.) With the series drawing to a close, we to put Cherene on the hot seat, and asked her what she thinks about peer support, mental health, and the …
Supporting Employees with Mental Health Conditions: A Short Case Scenario on Creating a Culture of Understanding
Building a positive culture that promotes understanding and support in the workplace requires intent, thought, and commitment. It’s an ongoing process that every employer should attend to. Of course, there is no shortage of competing priorities, and the need to address workplace mental health can catch managers and employees off guard. This new case scenario explores just such a case, where a conversation with an employee prompts a manager to find ways to address mental health without forcing any individual to disclose anything about themselves directly. What steps can a manager take to foster a strong workplace mental health culture …
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.