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Focus 12: Board Development

The latest edition of The CAFE TA Center’s Focus newsletter examines the challenges that organizations face in recruiting and maintaining an effective, involved Board of Directors. Most consumer organizations aspire to become 501c3 non-profits. To qualify for that status, a Board of Directors must be in place. Once the Board is in place, it has many responsibilities that it must addressed to be considered healthy. So what are the basic responsibilities of a Board of Directors? And how do you know if your Board is healthy, and working the way it is supposed to? Check out Focus 12 for the …

February 8, 2012

Organizational Development: Getting your Nonprofit Status is Just the Beginning

The CAFE TA Center presents the latest edition of its Focus newsletter: Organizational Development: Getting your Nonprofit Status is Just the Beginning. Many consumers in communities around the country would like to start their own consumer organization, and that’s a really positive impulse. At the same time, there’s more to having a successful organization that just gaining nonprofit status. In this edition of Focus, we look at organizational development. What are the stages a nonprofit goes through in its life cycle? What are the different needs and challenges at those various stages? What are the different areas within an organization …

December 16, 2011

Check Out Disaster Planning for Consumers of Mental Health Services

The CAFE TA Center is pleased to present its newest online training, Disaster Planning for Consumers of Mental Health Services. Everyone needs to be prepared for potential disasters, and have a plan in place so they are ready to react. For individuals with mental health needs, it is especially important to be ready for any kind of disaster, be it natural, man-made, anticipated or sudden. We invite you to view Disaster Planning for Consumers of Mental Health Services, so you can make sure that you are able to take care of yourself and your mental health needs in the midst …

November 30, 2011

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.

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