At Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center
Talladega Alabama Get the details here
Alabama Family Ties
Alabama Family Ties envisions a State of Alabama in which families raising children who have mental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities receive social support in their communities and are treated as experts by professionals in all child serving systems; and their children remain at home, in school, out of trouble, and grow up to live independently.
Alabama Family Ties (AFT) works to end stigma and discrimination against families raising children who have mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and to increase the availability of and access to high quality services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances in all child serving systems.
July 29 - 30, 2011
10th Annual Statewide Family Conference
At Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center
Talladega Alabama
TARGET AUDIENCE
Families and Caregivers of Children and Youth With Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED).
OBJECTIVES
- Participants will be able to explain approaches on how to advocate for youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED).
- Families will be able to network with other families to learn they are not alone in caring for their children who have an SED diagnosis.
- Youth participants will be able to interact with each other and learn they are not alone in their illness.
- Youth will be able to voice their concerns and satisfactions with how their illness is treated so that state policy can be changed to meet their needs.