Welcome!
We are families who are or who have raised children with mental illnesses. Currently we are an all volunteer organization. We have cancelled our monthly meetings. We will continue to support families and bring family voice to the entities serving youth and families. If you are a family raising a child with mental health needs and you want to reach us, you can find us on facebook as
Federation of Families- Texas
or by email at
FedFamiliesTX@gmail.com
Denton County Federation of Families is now Federation of Families Texas. We are still a family to family support and advocacy organization who has served families raising children with mental health needs for more than 15 years. We advocate for the educational needs of children and youth, provide local and state level advocacy for best practices, and led efforts to create a local Systems of Care and to bring wraparound to our community. We have supported local families with a particular focus on their strengths.
See our Legislative Info page for links to notes on the 87th Legislative Session as well as Claudette's wish list.
Partners Resource Network has some great parent education events Spring 2021 ranging from legislative session updates to sessions about your rights in special education. See the whole list at https://prntexas.org/statewide-webinars/
My son, Aaron, died in 2017. He had started writing a book about his experiences and I am working to finish it. It layers his voice, my voice and the best practices I wish we had known about when he was growing up and living with mental illness. I have started a website to share resources that I am collecting for that work. The book and that resources page has gotten more of my attention than this site of late ... but please go there and read about best practices in mental health in the resources section:
In the meantime, I have cleaned this site of the broken links and it should be more useful than it had been