Triple P

This training is an overview of the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program). This training will introduce the Triple P Program which focuses on supporting families to identify and enhance parenting skills. This training is open to any family-serving professional interested in expanding parenting support skills.

• Date: July 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Courtney Barrett

What is Family Peer Support

An introduction to Family Peer Support. This training will provide an overview of what Family Peer Support is and why it is useful.

• Date: July 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Child and Family Team 01

CFT 1 is a two-day experiential training (when you register, you are agreeing to attend both days) with a goal of providing an overview of Child and Family Team meetings from the family’s perspective. The training is open to anyone participating in Child and Family Teams and seeks to reinforce the idea of “one family, one plan” by addressing Child and Family Teams through the lens of multiple systems as they affect families in their everyday lives.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

• Dates: 8/4/2025, 8/5/2025
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Lisa Taylor and kamu Mimy

Navigating Rights and Resources: A Roadmap to Understanding 504s and the IDEA 

This training is a basic overview for any advocate who supports youth and families who need support in the educational system. This training will review the rights afforded of every student under federal law and how those rights should be upheld by school systems.

• Date: August 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amy Dickey

Family Leadership and Advocacy Training

This training will share effective family leadership and advocacy skills, why family leadership and advocacy is important, and explore what family leadership and advocacy looks like within a family-driven service delivery system. Open to any family members looking to develop leadership and advocacy skills.

• Date: August 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Youth Peer Support Partner 101

• Dates: 8/18/2025, 8/19/2025
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece and Kara Lynch

System of Care in North Carolina From the Family Perspective

System of Care (SOC) in North Carolina, is not a program; it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. The goal of this training is to explore authentic, practical ways to implement SOC cross-systems within agencies, programs, and communities. Participants will learn the aspects of the history of SOC federally and within NC. Participants will also, leave with an understanding of the importance of family and youth involvement and understand the values of NCSOC and the value of cross-system family, youth, and agency partnerships. 

• Date: August 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Stacy Morgan

Youth Engagement Training

• Date: August 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means -CALM

Reducing access to lethal means, such as firearms and medication, can determine whether a person at risk for suicide lives or dies. This free online course focuses on how to reduce access to the methods people use to kill themselves. It covers how to: (1) identify people who could benefit from lethal means counseling, (2) ask about their access to lethal methods, and (3) work with them—and their families—to reduce access. This course is primarily designed for individuals who work with people at risk for suicide, like social service professionals and health care providers. 

• Date: August 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
• Location: Virtual
• Presented By: Willow Burgess-Johnson

Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma- Informed Care is an approach in the human services field that assumes an individual is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. It shifts the focus from, “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” In this training attendees will learn the guiding principles of trauma-informed care that serves as a framework for how systems can work to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization. Specific applications for Family and Youth Peer Support Providers will be addressed.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification

• Date: September 04, 2025 at 12:00 PM
• Location: Virtual
• Presented By: Willow Burgess-Johnson

Family Partner 101

This is a FREE 5 day interactive training equipping family leaders to use their lived experience parenting a child who has a mental health or substance use issue and have navigated the child service delivery system to support other parents with similar experiences. This is an interactive family driven training that shares Best Practices in the Family Peer Role.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

(Application required with registration)v

• Dates: 9/9/2025, 9/1/2025, 9/11/2025, 9/16/2025, 9/17/2025
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas and Chandrika Brown

Family Partner 101

This is a FREE 5 day interactive training equipping family leaders to use their lived experience parenting a child who has a mental health or substance use issue and have navigated the child service delivery system to support other parents with similar experiences. This is an interactive family driven training that shares Best Practices in the Family Peer Role.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

(Application required with registration)v

• Dates: 9/9/2025, 9/1/2025, 9/11/2025, 9/16/2025, 9/17/2025
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas and Chandrika Brown

From Challenges to Change: A Special Education ECHO for Family and Youth Leaders

This training will equip Family and Youth Support Partners with the knowledge to navigate education systems effectively, for youth with complex needs. This second training in the series will offer more time for discussion about strategies for navigating the education system.

(Part 2 of a 2-part series)

(No prerequistes required)

• Date: September 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amy Dickey

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

This Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) One Day Training for Family Support Partners is designed to provide practical tools and strategies for parents and caregivers to prioritize their own mental health and wellness. By the end of the training, participants will have a personalized WRAP and crisis plan in place, ideas of potential wellness tools to use to maintain wellness, along with a deeper awareness of their own mental health and wellness needs.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

• Date: September 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amber Reed

Triple P

This training is an overview of the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program). This training will introduce the Triple P Program which focuses on supporting families to identify and enhance parenting skills. This training is open to any family-serving professional interested in expanding parenting support skills.

• Date: October 01, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Courtney Barrett

What is Family Peer Support

An introduction to Family Peer Support. This training will provide an overview of what Family Peer Support is and why it is useful.

• Date: October 09, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means -CALM

Reducing access to lethal means, such as firearms and medication, can determine whether a person at risk for suicide lives or dies. This free online course focuses on how to reduce access to the methods people use to kill themselves. It covers how to: (1) identify people who could benefit from lethal means counseling, (2) ask about their access to lethal methods, and (3) work with them—and their families—to reduce access. This course is primarily designed for individuals who work with people at risk for suicide, like social service professionals and health care providers.

• Date: October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
• Location: Virtual
• Presented By: Willow Burgess-Johnson

System of Care in North Carolina From the Family Perspective

System of Care (SOC) in North Carolina, is not a program; it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. The goal of this training is to explore authentic, practical ways to implement SOC cross-systems within agencies, programs, and communities. Participants will learn the aspects of the history of SOC federally and within NC. Participants will also, leave with an understanding of the importance of family and youth involvement and understand the values of NCSOC and the value of cross-system family, youth, and agency partnerships. 

• Date: November 06, 2025 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Stacy Morgan

Family Advocacy and Leadership

This training will share effective family leadership and advocacy skills, why family leadership and advocacy is important, and explore what family leadership and advocacy looks like within a family-driven service delivery system. Open to any family members looking to develop leadership and advocacy skills.

• Date: November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Youth Peer Support Partner 101

• Dates: 11/17/2025, 11/18/2025
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece and Kara Lynch

Navigating Rights and Resources: A Roadmap to Understanding 504s and the IDEA

This training is a basic overview for any advocate who supports youth and families who need support in the educational system. This training will review the rights afforded of every student under federal law and how those rights should be upheld by school systems.

• Date: November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amy Dickey

Youth Engagement Webinar

• Date: November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece

Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-Informed Care is an approach in the human services field that assumes an individual is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. It shifts the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” In this training, attendees will learn the guiding principles of trauma-informed care that serve as a framework for how systems can work to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization. Specific applications for Family and Youth Peer Support Providers will be addressed.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification

• Date: December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
• Location: Virtual
• Presented By: Willow Burgess-Johnson

From Challenges to Change: A Special Education ECHO for Family and Youth Leaders

This training will equip Family and Youth Support Partners with the knowledge to navigate education systems effectively, for youth with complex needs. This second training in the series will offer more time for discussion about strategies for navigating the education system. 

• Date: December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amy Dickey

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

This Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) One Day Training for Family Support Partners is designed to provide practical tools and strategies for parents and caregivers to prioritize their own mental health and wellness. By the end of the training, participants will have a personalized WRAP and crisis plan in place, ideas of potential wellness tools to use to maintain wellness, along with a deeper awareness of their own mental health and wellness needs.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

• Date: December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amber Reed

What is Family Peer Support

An introduction to Family Peer Support. This training will provide an overview of what Family Peer Support is and why it is useful.

• Date: January 08, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Triple P

This training is an overview of the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program). This training will introduce the Triple P Program which focuses on supporting families to identify and enhance parenting skills. This training is open to any family-serving professional interested in expanding parenting support skills.

• Date: January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Courtney Barrett

Family Advocacy and Leadership

This training will share effective family leadership and advocacy skills, why family leadership and advocacy is important, and explore what family leadership and advocacy looks like within a family-driven service delivery system. Open to any family members looking to develop leadership and advocacy skills.

• Date: February 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

System of Care in North Carolina From the Family Perspective

System of Care (SOC) in North Carolina, is not a program; it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. The goal of this training is to explore authentic, practical ways to implement SOC cross-systems within agencies, programs, and communities. Participants will learn the aspects of the history of SOC federally and within NC. Participants will also, leave with an understanding of the importance of family and youth involvement and understand the values of NCSOC and the value of cross-system family, youth, and agency partnerships. 

• Date: February 19, 2026 at 9:00 PM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Stacy Morgan

Youth Peer Support Partner 101

• Dates: 2/23/2026, 2/24/2026
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece and Kara Lynch

Youth Engagement Training

• Date: February 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

This Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) One Day Training for Family Support Partners is designed to provide practical tools and strategies for parents and caregivers to prioritize their own mental health and wellness. By the end of the training, participants will have a personalized WRAP and crisis plan in place, ideas of potential wellness tools to use to maintain wellness, along with a deeper awareness of their own mental health and wellness needs.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

• Date: March 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amber Reed

Family Partner 101

This is a FREE 5 day interactive training equipping family leaders to use their lived experience parenting a child who has a mental health or substance use issue and have navigated the child service delivery system to support other parents with similar experiences. This is an interactive family driven training that shares Best Practices in the Family Peer Role.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

(Application required with registration)v

• Dates: 3/24/2026, 3/25/2026, 3/26/2026, 3/31/2026, 4/1/2026
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas and Chandrika Brown

What is Family Peer Support

An introduction to Family Peer Support. This training will provide an overview of what Family Peer Support is and why it is useful.

• Date: April 09, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Triple P

This training is an overview of the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program). This training will introduce the Triple P Program which focuses on supporting families to identify and enhance parenting skills. This training is open to any family-serving professional interested in expanding parenting support skills.

• Date: April 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Courtney Barrett

Family Advocacy and Leadership

This training will share effective family leadership and advocacy skills, why family leadership and advocacy is important, and explore what family leadership and advocacy looks like within a family-driven service delivery system. Open to any family members looking to develop leadership and advocacy skills.

• Date: May 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Frederick Douglas

Youth Peer Support Partner 101

• Dates: 5/18/2026, 5/19/2026
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece and Kara Lynch

System of Care in North Carolina From the Family Perspective

System of Care (SOC) in North Carolina, is not a program; it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. The goal of this training is to explore authentic, practical ways to implement SOC cross-systems within agencies, programs, and communities. Participants will learn the aspects of the history of SOC federally and within NC. Participants will also, leave with an understanding of the importance of family and youth involvement and understand the values of NCSOC and the value of cross-system family, youth, and agency partnerships. 

• Date: May 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Stacy Morgan

Youth Engagement Training

• Date: May 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
• Location: Online
• Presented By: Kyle Reece

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

This Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) One Day Training for Family Support Partners is designed to provide practical tools and strategies for parents and caregivers to prioritize their own mental health and wellness. By the end of the training, participants will have a personalized WRAP and crisis plan in place, ideas of potential wellness tools to use to maintain wellness, along with a deeper awareness of their own mental health and wellness needs.

This is a required training for the Family Peer Specialist Certification.

• Date: May 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
• Location: virtual
• Presented By: Amber Reed