Parent Support

The Center of Parent Excellence (COPE) project

The COPE project was developed as a support to enhance our System of Care framework. The project is intended to provide a pathway for Washington State parents who are accessing and navigating the children’s behavioral health system to have peer support to ease their journey, whenever possible.

Support is provided by A Common Voice, a statewide, family-run nonprofit organization that provides advocacy and support for families whose children have intensive behavioral health needs.

Find help through the COPE project

The COPE project is staffed by lead parent support specialists, hired for their lived experience as a parent/caregiver. If you are a Washington State parent/caregiver of a child/youth who may benefit from assistance accessing and navigating behavioral health services, please contact your regional lead parent support specialist.

Dads M.O.V.E

Dads M.O.V.E is expanding! With a recent SAMSHA grant, the program is now hiring and serving Eastern Washington and Grays Harbor areas. Dads M.O.V.E. seeks to provide every parent/caregiver (especially dads) with the tools, support, and training needed to be fully engaged in the recovery of their children.

Website: www.dadsmove.org

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 Family Initiated Treatment (FIT) school-based toolkit

designed to help educators, providers, and families better understand and navigate youth behavioral health needs.

FIT allows parents or guardians to initiate behavioral health treatment for youth ages 13–17 when additional support is needed. This toolkit provides clear guidance on how school staff can recognize signs of concern, guide families to appropriate resources, and collaborate with behavioral health providers without initiating FIT themselves.

By offering practical tools, communication strategies, and referral pathways, the FIT toolkit promotes early intervention and strengthens connections between schools, families, and behavioral health systems.

This resource supports anyone working to ensure youth receive timely, appropriate care and helps schools foster collaborative partnerships with families and providers. For more information about Family Initiated Treatment (FIT) and other youth behavioral health resources, visit the FIT webpage and the Prenatal, child, youth, and young adult behavioral health webpage.

Family to Family Health Information Center

The primary goal of this group is to offer connection, mentoring, education, sharing of resources, exchanging experiences, and to promote a sense of unity among parents, individuals, and families living with medical complexities.

National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) Support Groups

NAMI Support Groups meet in person and online across Washington. Find groups that meet about a wide range of topics including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Support Groups, Autsim Spectrum Support Groups, LGBTQ+ Support Groups, Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Groups, Partners, Siblings & Friends Support Groups, and more.