Consulting and Technical Assistance

The Arizona Institute for Family Involvement and Innovation assists child-serving systems, behavioral health agencies, family organizations and communities around the country in transforming and strengthening their System of Care through family voice and collaborative partnerships. Consulting and Technical Assistance focuses on system or organizational development, operations and sustainability of effort.  The Arizona Institute for Family Involvement and Innovation personnel and affiliates offer credible expertise in the following areas:

• Strategic Financing of Children's Behavioral Health: Medicaid and other Grants
• Building Organizational Structure
• Strategic Planning
• Creating Family/Professional Partnerships
• Creating and Deploying Family Voice in a System of Care
• Developing Family Roles as Paid Professionals
• Establishing, Operating and Sustaining a Peer-to-Peer Service Agency
• Establishing, Operating and Sustaining a Family-Run Organization
• Building Strategic Alliances
• Peer-Delivered Training and Education
• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Youth-Guided, Family-Driven Policies and Practices
• Children's Behavioral Health Work Force Development

Following an initial inquiry, consultation and technical assistance needs will be assessed.  This may involve face-to-face or telephone meetings in order to determine the approach and method best suited for the organization or entity.

Family-Driven Care ~ Defined

SAMHSA working definition and guiding principles of Recovery