The Youth & Family Peer Support Alliance (the Alliance) is a family-driven and youth-guided agency providing services for and with families and children experiencing mental health and/or emotional challenges. Our goal is to develop the training, voice, and engagement your family and child needs in order to make the best, most solutions-oriented decisions for your individual needs. As a family-driven and youth-guided organization, a majority of the Alliance’s leadership are parents or caregivers who have raised a child or cared for youth with mental health and/or emotional challenges. Our structure and collective lived experiences means we bring a wealth of knowledge and background to areas of mental health and behavioral challenges: we not only understand family and childrens’ rights and needs but also know how and when to advocate on behalf of children with mental health needs. We use our individual and collective experiences and expertise to support, inform, and empower families who are working to bring about positive change for their own children. The services and programs the Alliance offers are family-driven, giving you the primary decision making role in the care of your own children. Partnering with parents and caregivers, we work to prevent long term out-of-home treatment and involvement in child welfare or juvenile justice systems with a population at risk of family breakup, expulsion, and crime. We are focused on keeping your child(ren) at home, productive in school, free from law enforcement involvement, and productively living within their community. The Youth & Family Peer Support Alliance works in partnership with numerous other child- and family-serving organizations focused on child welfare, mental health, education, and juvenile justice.
