Virtual: Bring Your IEP and Other School Questions

This hour is open for any family member to drop in for all or some of the time to ask questions or get feedback about IEP issues and other school situations. We ask anyone who stops by to respect the confidentiality of the group and not share anything discussed in the group outside of the […]

Transforming Child Health Care Through Anti-Racist, Family-Driven Approaches

The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) The child health care field is embracing a shift from the traditional child-focused model of well and sick visits to a more upstream preventive, holistic, and anti-racist focus on children, their families, and the systems and communities they interact with regularly. Despite a growing desire to improve care […]

Health and Safety: It’s a Family Affair

F.A.C.E.S. of Memphis, the Wellness and Stress Clinic of Memphis, the Emotional Fitness Centers of Tennessee and National Federation of Families will host this important session. Join us this Thursday for a virtual lunch and learn! The old adage, ‘prevention is better than cure’, could not be more appropriate for us than it is today. […]

Live at the Virtual Barbershop: Supporting Black Students in the Classroom

In his 1933 book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson postulated that Black people of his day were culturally indoctrinated rather than taught in American schools, creating people who would be dependent on and seek out inferior places in the dominant white society. One of the significant points Woodson repeated in his discourse was that the entire educational system was structurally unrelated to the future needs of Black children to develop and thrive with lives rooted in self and race knowledge as well as […]

The Future of Healthy Schools: Supportive Funding, Systems Change, and Community Collaboration

Institute For The Health Policy Forum School systems have the power to improve the health of a whole community, and COVID-19 shed light on the critical intersection between health and education. This virtual event will explore how health and education professionals can collaboratively and sustainably build healthy schools. Attendees will learn about school funding, community […]

Best Practices for Suicide Prevention to Postvention

sponsor: National Council on Behavioral Health Suicide prevention can seem like a daunting undertaking for any workforce, but as the number of deaths by suicide keeps increasing, it becomes a necessary public health issue to be addressed within health care. Currently the 10th leading cause of death, suicide claims more lives than traffic accidents and […]

Parent Café

According to Be Strong Families, "Parent Cafés are physically and emotionally safe spaces where parents and caregivers talk about the challenges and victories of raising a family. Through individual deep self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, participants explore their strengths, learn about the Protective Factors, and create strategies from their own wisdom and experiences to help strengthen […]

Section 504, ADAA and Children with Disabilities or Special Health Care Needs: What Parents Need to Know

Mississippi Parent Training and Information Center When people think about educating students with disabilities, the first thing that may come to mind is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although students can receive accommodations, related services, and special education under both Section 504 and IDEA, the two laws vary in a number of important […]

Mapping Dreams: Transition to Adulthood (1 hour training)

Mississippi Parent Training and Information Center This training provides strategies for what parents and youth can do to help plan for the student’s transition from high school to adult employment, postsecondary education or training, and independent living. Register here>>

The United States vs. Mississippi lawsuit

Judge Reeves will hold a hearing on the role of the monitor in the United States vs. Mississippi lawsuit. The monitor will oversee how the Department of Mental  Health (DMH) implements the remedy to correct the problems identified in the 2019 trial. This hearing will be held via Zoom and is open to the public.  […]