Family & Youth Roundtable (FYRT)

FYRT is an independent family and youth led ogaization. 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. Public agencies 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. In each perspective there is a belief that might translate as a benefit for many. We believe this 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 the public providing agencies. We have been able to accomplish this by providing a hub to support and amplify our partnership and the concerns and success of family and youth recieving services from public systems.

 Some of What We Do:

 ·         Training of Family 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.

 ·         Workshops for our public and provider partners that help improve upon egagement and partnerships with families and youth

 ·          Provide a place for families and youth to support each other, share ideas, success and concerns through our Family and Youth Council Networks

 ·          Provide coaching services for family/youth as well as professionals wishing to gain skills in building partnerships with each other

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

Read an article about FYRT History and why partnership matters!

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