About Alabama Family Ties

Alabama Family Ties, Inc. is a non-profit organization for families of children and adolescents with a serious emotional disturbance (SED).  The Mental Illness Planning Council of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation created this organization in 1998 through a federal grant from SAMHSA. 

 A board of directors comprised of 90 % family members of youth with SED aged up to 25 years governs Alabama Family Ties, Inc.  One full time employee staffs the organization.

Alabama Family Ties, Inc. does not provide direct services to youth with SED.  The organization does provide the following services to families of SED youth and the professionals who serve them.

• toll free number and e-mail for families to contact us with problems they are encountering
• resource database
• newsletter
• annual conference
• technical assistance with starting and maintaining support groups across the state
• trainings for families as well as professionals on family resiliency, SED diagnosis