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View Wellness Week Submissions from Fellow Consumers
As a part of National Wellness Week, the National Empowerment Center together with the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery and the consumer-run and consumer-supporter Technical Assistance Centers — the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse, PeerLink, The Cafe TA Center, and the NAMI STAR Center — invited you to submit pieces of original creative work expressing what wellness means in your lived and for your communities. Please take the time now to browse all the accepted works: your submissions are helping to raise public awareness about the importance of embracing a wellness-based perspective, in mental health services as well …
CAFE TAC Presents: Emerging Adult Consumers of Mental Health Services
The CAFE TA Center is pleased to announce the publication of its newest white paper, Emerging Adult Consumers of Mental Health Services. Adolescence and early adulthood can be a challenging, formative time, even for people fortunate enough to have strong support systems. For youth with behavioral health needs, the challenges of moving from childhood to adulthood can be especially difficult. Emerging Adult Consumers of Mental Health Services explores some of those challenges, by first defining what “emerging adults” means, then examining how the system of care forms their experiences and expectations, both as minors and as adults, and, most importantly, …
CAFE TAC Presents: Organizational Stability, Part 2
The CAFÉ TA Center is pleased to announce the publication of Part Two of its two-part series on Organizational Sustainability. Organizational Sustainability, Part Two is a compliment to Part One, and provides detailed guidance on developing a functional sustainability plan for your organization. The training features a targeted focus on four key areas; Accountability, Financial Security, Organizational Management, and Relationships. Along with this training, you will also find an Organizational Sustainability Screening and a template for Organizational Longevity Planning and guidance on how to use them with your organization. You can also download the Nonprofit Development and Sustainability Resource Sheet …
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.