Key systems of care personnel within Region III communities offer support to, and receive support from, their colleagues. Monthly calls for each group are facilitated by your RTAC. You can review notes from the most recent call, and can view the proposed agenda for the next call. Please recommend agenda items to Frank at least 24 hours before each scheduled call. In addition, you are welcome to exchange support and ideas whenever you wish. Click here for contact information for your peers throughout our region. Please contact Frank Rider as necessary to keep our contact information up to date and accurate.

Select your role from the list below:
Project Director
Key Family Contact
Youth Coordinator
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Coordinator

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Resources for:

Project Directors

The regular monthly Region III Project Directors call takes place in the first Tuesday of every month, for one hour, beginning at 11:30 AM Eastern/10:30 AM Central time. Participants can join the call tollfree by dialing 1 877 326-2337; and when prompted, entering call-in ID 7725636#.

Notes from Previous Calls (all files in PDF):
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007

Agenda Development:
To add items to the next Project Directors TA Call, e-mail Frank at frider@ffcmh.org. Please include "PD Call Agenda Item" in the e-mail subject line.

Additional Resources:
Coming soon!

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Key Family Contacts

The regular monthly Region III Family Leadership Affinity Call takes place on the second Thursday of every month, for one hour, beginning at 2 PM Eastern/1:00 PM Central time. Participants can join the call tollfree by dialing 1 877 326-2337; and when prompted, entering call-in ID 7725636#.

Notes from Previous Calls (all files in PDF):
June 2008 (with link to presentation)
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008
November 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007

Agenda Development:
To add items to the next Family Leadership Affinity TA Call, e-mail Frank at frider@ffcmh.org. Please include "KFC Call Agenda Item" in the e-mail subject line.

Additional Resources:
A Transforming Behavioral Health System: Families at the Core (Arizona Institute for Family Involvement)

Family Involvement Center/Arizona Institute for Family Involvement
The Family Involvement Center (www.familyinvolvementcenter.org) is an outstanding example of a family-run organization. Based in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona, this five year old not-for-profit agency has as its mission, “to assist and support families/caregivers, and help policy makers, agencies and providers transform systems, to ensure that children and youth with an emotional, behavioral, or mental health disorder succeed in school, live with their families, avoid delinquency and become productive adults.” In 2006 Family Involvement Center developed its consulting and technical assistance arm, the Arizona Institute for Family Involvement (http://www.familyinvolvementcenter.org/arizonainstitute.html), to assist communities to develop and strengthen their systems of care, and to build organizational structures, cultures and service practices that respect and apply families' strength and expertise in partnership.

Family Guide to Achieving the Promise
The final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission (see http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/reports.htm) has challenged local, state and national stakeholders to convert the Commission’s goals and recommendations into action. The Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health has developed this TIP sheet to supports families, family organizations and advocates to help “achieve the promise” of a transformed service system.

TA Partnership Family Involvement Page

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Youth Coordinators

Children's Mental Health Awareness Day was May 8th!

Check out other Region III pages for more on Children's Mental Health Awareness Day activities and events in the Region!

The regular monthly Region III Youth Coordinators call takes place on the third Thursday of every month, for one hour, beginning at 11:30 AM Eastern/10:30 AM Central time. Participants can join the call tollfree by dialing 1 877 326-2337; and when prompted, entering call-in ID 4738865#.

Notes from Previous Calls (all files in PDF):
June 2008
April 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
July 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007

Agenda Development:
To add items to the next Youth Coordinators TA Call, e-mail Frank at frider@ffcmh.org or Stephany Bryan at sbryan@ffcmh.org. Please include "YC Call Agenda Item" in the e-mail subject line.

Additional Resources:
TA Partnership Youth Involvement Page

Five Keys to Youth Success: Unlocking the Door to Arizona’s Future (PDF)
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano created the Arizona Statewide Youth Development Task Force in 2005, with the purpose of furthering youth development in the state.  Positive youth development is a policy perspective that emphasizes providing services and opportunities to help all young people develop a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and empowerment.  Five Keys to Youth Success: Unlocking the Door to Arizona’s Future focuses on this perspective, and conveys the importance of investing in young people and ensuring that youth voices are heard in decisions that impact them.  While individual programs can provide youth development activities or services, the youth development approach works best when entire communities, including young people, are involved in creating a continuum of services and opportunities that youth need to grow into happy and healthy adults.

Meet Minnie from Cleveland (PDF)

Engaging Youth… on Their Turf - 2007 (PDF)
Youth-serving professionals may feel ill-equipped to engage youth outside of classrooms, counseling groups and other traditional settings. To be effective, though, we must stretch ourselves and change how and where we reach out to youth. Some first steps youth-serving professionals can take are:

1. Talk to youth – seek out youth in non-traditional settings and get their first-hand input about new ideas.
2. Start with what you have – a program that addresses a community need will resonate and gain momentum and begin to attract essential support.
3. Collaborate – find existing organizations that have a stake in the youth you are trying to reach, and explore creative possibilities for partnership.

Healthy Teen Network has published this description of six efforts that exemplify a recognition of the full breadth and depth of youth communities, and are changing the way we approach serving youth by truly learning to engage them… on their turf, not ours. You can access this resource by clicking here.

Youth As Partners Training curriculum
Developed by Wisconsin Healthy and Ready to Work (2006)
This training guide is designed for adults who are interested in serving as allies to youth in order to promote meaningful youth involvement in all areas of community life. While it is designed to help adults learn how to work with youth who have special needs, it is based on considerations that apply to all youth. Participants who receive the training can expect to take away:

• Knowledge about disability history and culture,
• A better understanding of the unique culture of youth,
• Knowledge about the importance of adult-youth partnerships,
• Tools necessary to forge youth-adult partnerships in a meaningful way, and
• The ability to apply these tools.

You can access this resource by clicking here.

Youth Involvement in Systems of Care: A Guide to Empowerment (2005)
In keeping with the New Freedom Commission’s 2003 recommendation that mental health care should be “consumer and family-driven,” in recent years the national systems of care movement has begun to appreciate, value and invite the first-hand expertise of young people who can contribute to consumer-responsive system change. This seminal guide was developed by Marlene Matarese MSW, Lorrin Gehring and Martha Mora as a starting point for understanding youth involvement and engagement, in order to develop and fully integrate a youth-directed movement within local systems of care. A copy of the “must read” guide can be downloaded at: http://www.tapartnership.org/youth/docs/Youth_Involvement.pdf

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Cultural and Linguistic Competence Coordinators

All Region III CLC coordinators are always invited to seek specific technical assistance via Frank Rider, Regional TA Coordinator (frider@ffcmh.org and 623-703-6793).

Additionally, the regular support and affinity call for Region III Cultural and Linguistic Competence (CLC) Coordinators is the TA Partnership’s CLC Community of Practice conference calls. These calls provide an opportunity for communities to engage in discussion and gather information on a variety of issues and topics related to cultural and linguistic competence. These facilitated calls takes place on the first Thursday of every odd-numbered month (e.g. November, January, March), for 90 minutes, beginning at 4:00 PM Eastern/3:00 PM Central time. They feature presentations from system of care experts and other experts in the field. Participants can join the call tollfree by dialing 1-877-326-2337; and when prompted, entering passcode 4294308#.

CLC coordinators are also encouraged to participate in specific learning communities addressing African American Heritage, Latino and Native Hawaiian/Asian/Pacific Island populations. These learning communities coalesce during each even-numbered month (e.g. December, February, April).

For additional information about the CLC Community of Practice, its sponosored activities, and available resources, please visit the Web pages. You can also contact the Cultural Competence Action Team members for more information.

Additional Resources:
TA Partnership Cultural and Linguistic Competence Page

The National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations

The Relational Worldview Model
The relational worldview model, described here by Executive Director Terry Cross, was developed by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) in the 1980's, and it continues to be refined in practice. It is a reflection of the Native thought process and concept of balance as the basis for health, for an individual, a family, an organization or a community. The relational worldview model serves as NICWA's philosophy, and its approach to providing technical assistance through community development specialists as a framework for assessing and addressing the needs of a community.

Examples of Effective Engagement for American Indian Families and Communities

Building and Sustaining Tribal Capacity (Holly Echo-Hawk, 2006)

CLC TA Brief (February 2007)

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