The CAFE TA Center
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Join CAFÉ TAC for our Four-Part Peer Leadership and Community Engagement Series
Join CAFÉ TAC for our four-part Peer Leadership and Community Engagement webinar series, beginning on Wednesday, November 12th at 2:00 PM ET. Register here! This interactive series, facilitated by peer leader Elise Padilla from Rebel Leadership Group, will empower participants to develop their leadership and community engagement skills, with tools for leadership, collaboration, and sustainability. Together we’ll explore community building, ethics and cultural humility, self-care in leadership, and coalition building—creating a space for learning, connection, and peer-to-peer support that strengthens the recovery movement from the ground up. Here’s what’s in store for each of the four discussions: Building Peer Communities & Mutual Aid Ecosystems – Wednesday, November 12th – Join us to explore how peer support workers and small organizations can create strong, sustainable communities. This session highlights practical strategies for building mutual aid networks, strengthening collaboration, and ensuring every voice is valued in the recovery ecosystem. Ethics and Cultural
A Conversation on Mental Health Recovery, Wellness, and Entrepreneurship with Bill McKnight
The CAFÉ TA Center invites you to attend A Conversation on Mental Health Recovery, Wellness, and Entrepreneurship with author and advocate Bill McKnight at 10 AM ET on Tuesday, November 4th. Register here! People with lived experience often have complicated histories, and non-traditional experiences when it comes to work and professional development. They also have unique perspectives and valuable insight that can help others navigate their way to wellness. By taking an entrepreneurial path, some advocates are able to use their experience to support themselves while also demonstrating the value of recovery and helping others along the way. This CAFÉ TAC webinar will feature a 90-minute conversation with one such entrepreneurial advocate, Bill McKnight. Bill has lived with a mental health condition since 1983 and has been writing since 2003. His first book, Loud Silence, was published in 2012. Since his initial stay in a psychiatric hospital in Belfast, he
Focus 2.0: Mental Health and AI: Promising Tool or Potential Danger?
The latest edition of CAFE TAC’s Focus 2.0 newsletter is here! This edition takes a look at artificial intelligence (AI), the ways it’s impacting mental health, and the implications for peers and people with lived experience. It also includes info on a new SAMHSA resource to promote self-care for mental healthcare providers, details of a new CAFE TAC family mental health webinar series, and a “Capacity Corner” column addressing complex relationships between staff and Board members in peer-run organizations. Check out the latest Focus 2.0 here!
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.