Health care and educational systems can be very frustrating to parents of children with mental health problems. More often than not, parents can't find the answers they need and end up losing trust in systems meant to help them. Parent advocates help restore parents' confidence by serving as trusted intermediaries guiding them through institutional thickets. The REACH Institute's Parent Empowerment Programs (PEP), developed by Peter S. Jensen, M.D., and Columbia researcher Kimberly Hoagwood, PhD., trains parent advocates through 40 hours of intensive, face-to-face interaction. Parent advocate participants learn about the range of mental health problems of children and youth, efficacious interventions and optimal methods for assisting parents to advocate for their children. This training is applicable to parent advocates working with parents in the primary care, mental health, child welfare, schools, and juvenile justice settings. Click here learn about our PEP parent advocate programs, or to learn about future PEP trainings via our email alerts, sign up at the top of this page. Or, please contact REACH's Director of Progams, Lisa Hunter Romalli, PhD, at (212) 947-7322 or by email at
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