Free family support and information from experienced mental health professionals: - Collaboration with schools and other agencies - Education to the community offered through Friends and Family Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills groups - Workshops and classes??

- Support group for families of persons with mental illness - Provides information, support and feedback

NOTE: Not a direct service agency ?- Information provided to parents and professionals about children's mental health, accessing services, support groups - Several publications offered on children's mental health disorders, services, health insurance and more; some available in Spanish - Statewide child and adolescent mental health conference held annually - MACMH Training Services offering timely and relevant trainings to parents, educators, and other professionals - Parent Education and Support providing education, advocacy, support, and a teen mom program - Parent to Parent: Parents offering encouragement, support, and education to other parents (cultural and community based groups) - Public Education: Working in schools and communities to increase awareness of children's mental health - Early Childhood Division: Promoting relationship-based mental health principles throughout the systems and disciplines that touch the lives of infants, young children, and their families - Youth programming including Be A LdR

Offers self-help coping tools to combat depression, stress, anger, anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic, schizophrenia, sleeping problems, irritability, etc. Facilitated groups meet in person, online, and by telephone. Open attendance is conducted by phone meetings, online meetings, and chat rooms. Books are available at local libraries or through the website. - Minneapolis Group: Meets at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 4100 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409