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Empowering Peer Entrepreneurs: A Training Series for Lived Experience Leaders
CAFÉ TAC invites you to attend Empowering Peer Entrepreneurs: A Training Series for Lived Experience Leaders, a transformative four-part training series designed to equip individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions—including peer support specialists—with the tools, confidence, and strategies to explore entrepreneurship as a pathway to financial independence and community impact. The first session will take place on Wednesday, January 14th at 2 PM ET, with additional sessions at the same time weekly through February 4th. There is no cost to attend, and certificates of attendance will be available upon request. Register here! Through interactive learning and intentional community space, participants will: Gain practical knowledge and strategies to develop authentic, innovative entrepreneurial efforts Understand the importance of ethics, accessibility, and cultural humility in peer-centered business practices Explore how personal values align with professional ethics to create purposeful, sustainable work Engage in peer-to-peer learning, mutual support, and shared wisdom Training
Focus 2.0: Share Your Voice to Contribute to National Organizing Efforts
The latest edition of CAFE TAC’s Focus 2.0 newsletter is here! This edition shares information on an upcoming national organizing effort that’s seeking to bring the wider recovery community together, and shares a survey that offers a chance for everyone to share their input and priorities. It also includes a review of CAFE TAC’s recent Peer Leadership and Community Engagement Series, a preview of the upcoming Empowering Peer Entrepreneurs Series, some holiday break resources, and a “Capacity Corner” column on managing your organization’s cash flow. Check out the latest Focus 2.0 here!
Emerging Adult Series Part Two – Fostering Independence in Emerging Adults: A Balanced Approach to Growth and Connection
Have you started supporting your young adult’s path to independence? View the second webinar in our Empowering Your Emerging Adult Series: Fostering Independence in Emerging Adults: A Balanced Approach to Growth and Connection Thursday, November 13th at 2:00 PM ET View the recording here! Facilitators and Family Peer Supporters Charlotte Armstrong and Kirsten Drybrough invite you to continue the five-part Empowering Your Emerging Adult Series hosted by CAFÉ TAC. This session builds on our first webinar, offering tools, heartfelt insights, and real-life success stories for parents of emerging adults navigating mental health or substance use challenges. Learn to strike the perfect balance between support and autonomy. Navigating the transition to adulthood while supporting the emerging adult’s recovery is a nuanced challenge. This webinar focuses on fostering independence without crossing into enabling behaviors, while emphasizing family connections. Hear from parents who have faced similar journeys, offering insights on encouraging self-determination, problem-solving,
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.