Statewide Family Support Network

Family Support and Advocacy program provides comprehensive family advocacy, outreach, support, and referral service for families of children with Serious Emotional Disturbances and professionals who work with these children. The program promotes the provision of services to youth with emotional disturbance and their families based on system of care principals, including evidence-based strategies such as Common Sense Parenting. The program also provides information and training to lay and professional groups; a webpage that provides mental health resources; an online interactive library of mental health books and pamphlets; and provides a quarterly, informative, and educational newsletter.