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Parent Peer Support: Better Outcomes for Children, Youth & Families across Systems
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

DETAILS & LOGISTICS

Date: October 30, 2019

Time: 2:00 PM—3:00 PM EDT

Where: Virtual (Adobe Connect webinar)

SPEAKER:

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Millie Sweeney, M.S., is the Deputy Director for the Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA). Spanning the children’s mental health and child-serving systems, she has over twenty years’ direct experience in navigating systems with and on behalf of families, advocating at both the individual and policy level, and building collaborations with professionals and systems. For twelve years, she operated as a member of the management team within a large statewide family organization, participating in the administration of six system of care sites, supporting the development of the statewide Youth MOVE chapter, and managing up to twenty local and statewide programs. She operated Family Solutions Consulting, focusing on consulting in program development, parent peer support and family driven care nationally before joining the Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA). First as Project Coordinator and now as Deputy Director, she specializes in grant and program development, staff supervision and training, parent peer support and family engagement, curriculum development, and systems of care. Over the past two decades, Mrs. Sweeney has leveraged both her professional experience and personal experience as a parent to assist organizations and states with system of care and family driven program development, consult nationally on certification and family/youth support services, offer curriculum and training on a variety of topics related to children’s mental health and participate on policy-making groups at the state and national level to advocate for family voice and choice in child-serving systems. She holds a Master’s of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and resides in middle Tennessee.

Register for the other webinar in this series:

October 16, 2019 2:00—3:00 p.m. ET

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Parent Peer Support (PPS) services help parents who have children with special needs find and become reliable allies for each other. Parent support providers bring expertise based on their own experience parenting children or youth with social, emotional, behavioral, or substance use challenges, as well as specialized training, to support other parents and caregivers. This webinar, part two of a two-part series, will examine the evolution and growth of PPS, its impact on child-serving systems, and implementation strategies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Gain a full understanding of the scope of parent/family peer support services
  • Learn of the benefits of parent peer support for both families and partner agencies
  • Learn strategies for accessing and using parent peer support in their communities and states
  • Access information relating to best practices associated with parent peer support

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Parents of children and youth with mental health, emotional or behavioral challenges, mental and public health professionals (including psychologists, clinical social workers, family therapists and substance abuse counselors), school counselors, teachers, school support staff; families and youth who have been served by the public systems, private local child-serving providers, supervisors, program managers and administrators in child-serving organizations and systems, funders and policy-makers involved in supporting children, youth and families.

Registration questions, training@danyainstitute.org, 240-645-1145


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