Family & Youth Roundtable (FYRT)

FYRT is an independent family and youth led organization. The foundation of our work is to build an interconnection between the families and youth receiving services and the public child family-serving agencies that serve our communities, such as: Children's Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Education, and Child Welfare. 

Our core value is a genuine belief in partnership and engagement of diverse perspectives. Each perspective holds a belief that might translate into a benefit for many. We hold this value because we are family and youth who have received services. We know that partnering with our public and provider partners will strengthen families, build strong communities and improve outcomes.

Over the past year we have engaged in over 652 partnership activities with public-serving agencies. We have been able to accomplish this by acting as a hub to support and amplify our partnership and the concerns and success of family and youth receiving services from public systems.

 Some of What We Do:

 ·  Train families and youth on how to utilize their life experience to assist other families in navigating the system and overcoming their challenges. Furthermore, our workshops develop community leadership skills that allow family and youth partners to become partnership brokers, which enhances recipients of public services outcomes.

 ·  Host workshops for our public and provider partners that help advance engagement and partnerships with families and youth.

 ·  Provide a place for families and youth to support each other, share ideas, successes, and concerns through our Family and Youth Advisory Councils

 ·  Provide coaching services for families, youth, and professionals wishing to gain skills in building partnerships with each other

 ·   Promote excellence in the evolving field of peer- to-peer support.

Read an article about FYRT History and why partnership matters!