About Child and Family Mental Health Advocacy

The Advocacy Alliance's advocates, including Family Peer Advocates, work with families of children who have emotional/behavioral disorders to help them understand and ensure the protection of their rights in the children’s mental health and other child-serving systems of care, as well as at the Youth Development Center at Hickory Run. Our advocates ensure that families’ voices are heard and included in the dialogues on the regional, state, and federal levels, the results of which are policies and programs which affect children and their families.