Rooted In Support,
Growing In Strength
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Seedlings: New NCVA Trainings
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| During Quarter 3 (January 1, 2025 – March 31, 2025), NCVA conducted a total of 14 trainings to connect with the public (e.g. youth and families), provide technical assistance for the workforce, and foster systems level change. |
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# of Participants |
| Motivational Interviewing* |
1/15/26 |
11 |
| Trauma Informed Care |
1/21/25 |
17 |
| Youth Peer Support Partner 101 Training |
1/24/25 |
4 |
| Family Partner 101 |
2/4/25 |
15 |
| Navigating Rights and Resources: A Roadmap to Understanding 504s and the IDEA** |
2/7/25 |
20 |
| WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) |
2/25/25 |
16 |
| What is Family Peer Support |
3/6/25 |
5 |
| Youth Engagement Webinar |
3/7/25 |
16 |
| Triple P |
3/13/25 |
4 |
| What is Youth Peer Support Info Webinar |
3/14/25 |
14 |
| Youth Peer Support Partner 101 |
3/17/2025 |
7 |
| Child and Family Team 101 |
3/19/25 |
26 |
| Motivational Interviewing* |
3/26/25 |
8 |
| NCVA Speakers Bureau** |
3/13/25 |
5 |
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| * Training facilitated by the NC HFWTP in a collaborative effort to educate Youth Peer Partners and Family Partners being certified through NCVA.
**New Trainings offered by NCVA in Quarter 3.
Upon completion of the trainings, approximately 94% of the participants indicated being satisfied with the results of the trainings and shared positive feedback on the satisfaction surveys. |
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How many people do NC Voices Amplified train?
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What Impact do NC Voices Amplified trainings have?
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| Registrations by County
Registrants from 46 Counties |
| Participants from various regions across the state of North Carolina attended the trainings. |
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| Frederick Douglas
Family Training Coordinator |
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In Full Bloom: Technical Assistance and National Certification
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| NCVA continues to see growth in the demand for technical assistance including 135 Family Training Technical Assistance calls, participation in 9 agency hiring interviews, and supporting the following agencies: One Harvest, Duke University PEN-Pal, RHA, Daymark, Youth Villages, Alliance Health, Partners Behavioral Health, Vaya Health, Operation Gateway, Alexander Youth Network, NC Wrap Around, Easterseals, PRIDE NC, Trillium, ParentVOICE Mental Health America of Central Carolinas, Connecting thru Housing, CTS health, Monarch, Thompson Health, Support Inc, The SPARC Network and Services, and Catawba Valley health
NCVA supported 12 individuals in making an application for National Certification for Family Peer support during Quarter 3. |
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| Kara Lynch
Communication & Outreach Coordinator |
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Cultivating Courage Through Storytelling
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| Our inaugural NCVA Speakers Bureau cohort was amazing! We had five exceptional young adults who were brave in stepping out to learn how to share their stories to advocate for themselves, others and systems change. Our training sessions were full of deep focus and learning, rich dialogue and enthusiasm for the great things that will unfold because of the courage and strength of storytelling. Our individualized coaching sessions set the stage for exploration into the infinite potential of each participant. As someone who uses storytelling as a means of purpose, a career pathway, and an overall unique way of life, I am excited for the unlimited possibilities of these individuals and look forward to supporting them throughout their storytelling journeys! |
| Kara at an outreach event. |
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| Chandrika Brown
Collaboration Coordinator |
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True Collaboration: Bringing Youth Voice to the Table
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| It took me a while to think about my success story for this quarter. This quarter has been very challenging for me, and I actually didn’t think I had a success story until I sat back a realized that the one thing I’m working so hard on, I have actually made some progress in one of my collaboratives. As Family Partners, we stress the importance of having the youth and family voice at the tables when we are discussing the challenges and success of the communities and how we can serve them in the matter they need to be served and heard. I have been able to bring a youth to the Guilford County Collaborative on a consistent basis for this quarter. I pick her up after the class on the 2nd Tuesday of each month and we attend the meeting. We do arrive about 10 minutes into the meeting but once we get there she is actively involved and engaged. The other members seem to enjoy her being there and hearing her insight. The SOC Collaborative has partnered with her to help set up the social media for the group. I am super proud of this youth but also excited for the possible increase of youth and family voices at every collaborative table. |
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| Chandrika engaging with a group of youth. |
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| Kyle Reece
Youth Training Coordinator |
| Kyle speaking to a group of youth. |
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| Over the past quarter, the Youth Training Department has had so many successes that highlights our strength in youth peer advocacy, a continued commitment to engaging young people with lived experience and our passion to equip young adults and youth-serving professionals with the right skills to engage young people with mental and behavioral health challenges.
Of those many successes include a highly successful Youth Peer Support Partner training with hired Youth Peer Supports, as well as a young adult looking to learn how to use their voice and lived experience to help others. Within this training, we helped newly hired Youth Peer Supports learn how to engage with the young people, utilize their lived experiences through strategic storytelling, and approach their work in a strength-based approach. This was one of our most successful YPS trainings, both in the attendance numbers, as well as in the discussion and thoughtfulness from the participants.
While the highly successful training of the Youth Peer Supports through our YPS 101 training was no doubt a bright spot of our past quarter, the highlight would have to be the completed development and launch of our Speakers Bureau youth advocacy program. We are so proud to have created a curriculum that will train young adults with lived experience to share their voice in meetings and speaking opportunities. We launched our first cohort, and the passion of our youth participants, and their commitment to learning and sharing with us has been phenomenal. We are very excited to continue training these young people throughout the spring, and we look forward to encouraging them to speak to collaboratives and their community about challenges they have faced and opportunities for growth; while utilizing the skills they learned throughout this course.
As we move into the spring, we have so much to look forward to in the Youth Training Department, especially the continued training of new Youth Peer Support Partners and working with the young people who have gone through our Speakers Bureau and finding opportunities for them to share their experiences and perspectives in a transformative way. |
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| Willow Burgess-Johnson
Program Manager |
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Expanding Roots: Growing Capacity for Youth and Family Peer Support
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| NC Youth and Family Voices Amplified is building capacity in order to be able to support all of the great work that you do. We are excited to be able to partner with two wonderful provider agencies in implementing community Family Peer Support, and in evaluating the impact Family Peer work can have.
We are also excited to be able to expand our training offering. We have tried to listen to you about the training needs across NC and this year we developed a shortened training on “What is Family Peer Support?” & “What is Youth Peer Support?” so that people do not have to attend the training to become a peer in order to understand the service. We also developed a new training series for Youth on how to tell your lived experience story, the Speakers Bureau which launched in March and graduates the first cohort in May. We are working with multiple collaborative partners to develop increased offerings for specialized training about the many complex systems that youth and families navigate for support. We are looking forward to offering an array of continuing education training for Youth and Family peers to support ongoing learning. We are also excited to roll out a new training on supervising Youth and Family Peer Supports this June. |
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