California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth

Free Online Permanency Training; register now!

The state-of-the art online training will offer 25 hours of free CEUs and provide clinical skills and therapeutic approaches for work with adoptive and guardianship families, including child welfare, private/domestic and inter-country adoption.  Being equipped with understanding and expertise in this area is essential for...

Caregiver Resiliency

Update on the National Training Initiative

  What’s the latest on the National Training Initiative? As you may have heard California is participating as a pilot site in the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI). NTI is developing two state of the art, standardized, web-based trainings to build the capacity of...

Early Bird Registration Prices

Dear CMHACY family, We are happy to announce the 2018 conference pricing.   Registration is a two step process: Register online for the CMHACY conference. Reserve lodging on the CMHACY conference Registration site, by filling out the Asilomar Lodging and payment form.   For Early Bird Registration Starting February 1st through midnight...

Family Voice Survey for Parents/Caregivers

Greetings, We are a group of Parent/Caregiver run organizations from across California who are working together to improve services and supports to our families.  We have been provided a grant to strengthen the voice of parents and caregivers of children and youth.  As part of this...

Preparation Underway for the 2018 CMHACY Conference

After a busy summer, the CMHACY Board and Friends are taking the month of August off before beginning our planning for next year’s conference.  We wanted to take this break in action to review the highlights from the 2017 conference, and invite readers to share...

Annual Conference Planner – RFP

Download Request for Proposal All RFP's must be submitted by August 18, 2017.  See RFP for full submission instructions. [qodef_button size="small" type="" text="Click to Download the RFP" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CMHACY-Conference-Planner-RFP-July-2017-rev5.pdf" target="_self" color="" hover_color="" background_color="" hover_background_color="" border_color="" hover_border_color="" font_size="" font_weight="" margin="0 0 30px"] Overview/Background California Mental Health Advocates for...

Senate Expected to Resume Action on Health Care Bill

The US Senate is expected to move forward with the Republican Health Care Bill.  If you are concerned about the changes this bill would make (described in a previous blog), now is the time to contact your Senator.   Feinstein, Dianne - (D – CA) 331 Hart Senate Office Building...

Senate Federal Healthcare Bill

There has been significant media coverage on the Senate Healthcare Bill (also known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act) which was released on Thursday, June 22, 2017.  Media attention has been given to key components such as MediCaid reform, tax credits, and the waiving of...