There is a lot happening! New funding, new project director, new lead family partner and lots of upcoming developments... so check frequently for announcements!    We have been busy getting the Advocacy Training updated and into a format that is easily accessible online .... Look for us to be updating the website content next.

Read the 7/18/07 report on the privatization of Texas Health and Human Services

http://www.tpj.org/watchyourassets/hhsc/index.html

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-800-273-TALK (1-888-628-9454 for Spanish-speaking callers) is the federally funded hotline for suicide prevention and intervention. People who are in emotional distress or suicidal crisis can call the Lifeline at any time, from anywhere in the Nation, to talk in English or Spanish with a trained crisis worker who will listen to and assist callers in getting the help they need.

Check out our Amazon Bookstore picks!
We are creating a virtual bookstore through the marketplace on this website and will provide direct links to recommended books... When you order books through Amazon by going through our site, they give us a percentage of the sales which helps support our work while we also give you the benefit of our experience! If you have favorite books about children's mental health, please drop us the title and a description so that we may look at adding it to the store! Just email us

The Texas Family Community Participation Reports are here!

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Information on the IDEA community of practice website, sharedwork.org
The SharedWork.org website is a project of the IDEA Partnership and the Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action (CSMHA) that is intended to enable the exchange of information and the ability to pursue a shared agenda.

It provides a space for the National Community on School-Based Mental Health to work together and build their community. Through the website, there will be a listserv mechanism that will offer opportunities for public communication, community announcements, summaries of practice group work, and requests for comments.

The website will assist Practice Groups with achieving their goals including: defining critical issues, creating a repository of key online documents, constructing quarterly probes through the listserv with a loop back to the website and the practice group, using the probes to define new shared work, defining and developing a conference strand for the CSMHA’s 11th Annual Conference on School Based Mental Health, and creating at least one tool for the field that is collaboratively developed. Communities of Practice are created when partner organizations collaborate with States, districts, local sites and individuals. These Communities of Practice are focused on advancing policy and practice.

The members learn from one another and take action together in coordinated ways. There are several communities on the shared work site... when you get on the site, click on the National Community of Practice on Collaborative School Behavioral Health and log in.

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Denton County Federation of Families hosts Family to Family support and information meetings in both Denton and Lewisville every month.