Families Together NYS
Organizational Member Since May 2020
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Families Together in New York State is a non-profit, family-run organization that strives to establish a unified voice for children and youth with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges through collaborations with local, regional, state and national partners. Families Together in New York State is a non-profit, family-run organization that strives to establish a unified voice for children and youth with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges through collaborations with local, regional, state and national partners. Our mission is to ensure that every family and youth have access to needed information, support and services. We believe services for youth and families must be strength-based and sensitive to each family’s culture, involve families and youth in all decision-making processes, and be individualized and community-based whenever possible.Families Together has a long history of stigma busting including Timothy’s Law for mental health services parity, Healthy Minds, Healthy Kids, Multiple Pathways to Diploma, Solutions Not Suspensions, Free2Be for LGBTQ+, Children Need Amazing Parents (CHAMPS) and our latest multi-year effort, Raise the Age.
Paige Pierce |
CEO
About the Organization
Families Together and the Youth Power! division within is the Family and Peer run organization that provides an advocacy platform to families and youth. We provide technical assistance to agencies that are trying to implement youth and family voice into their practices, and provide trainings to agencies working in the field on a variety of topics. We are also the credentialing agency for the Family Peer and Youth Peer Advocate medicaid-recognized credentials.
