Statement Regarding the End of IFFCMH's Statewide Family Network Grant
More than 20 years serving Hoosier families through SAMHSA;s Statewide Family Network Grant will close on May 31, 2019. All of us at IFFCMH have been honored to help thousands of families over the past two decades, but the end of our SFN grant does not mean that we will be just going away.
This summer, we will be working hard to prepare for a new phase in our history. We will have a new name and a new, more focused approach to our mission. IFFCMH was best in the trenches, working one-on-one with families and child-serving systems in Indiana, and we will continue that. Working with schools, we plan to be available for families to advocate at IEP meetings and other means to make sure that Hoosier kids get the free and appropriate public education which is their right.
In the meantime, our social media presence will be unaffected. The indianafamilies.org website will remain until at least the end of 2019. Our Facebook and Twitter accounts will remain open and we plan to continue our postings to those sites. The toll-free number will be ending soon, but in these days of cell phones, it wasn't getting that much traffic anyway. We will still be available to speak with you.
So this is not the time for sad songs - it's a time for new visions. When our plans become more clear, we will post them to social meda. Thank you to all the fine, dedicated people we have worked with over the years - IFFCMH couldn't have done it without you. But mostly, thanks to the families of Indiana. You have given us a sense of purpose and joy that we couldn't have found anywhere else. And now, on to the next step...
More than 20 years serving Hoosier families through SAMHSA;s Statewide Family Network Grant will close on May 31, 2019. All of us at IFFCMH have been honored to help thousands of families over the past two decades, but the end of our SFN grant does not mean that we will be just going away.
This summer, we will be working hard to prepare for a new phase in our history. We will have a new name and a new, more focused approach to our mission. IFFCMH was best in the trenches, working one-on-one with families and child-serving systems in Indiana, and we will continue that. Working with schools, we plan to be available for families to advocate at IEP meetings and other means to make sure that Hoosier kids get the free and appropriate public education which is their right.
In the meantime, our social media presence will be unaffected. The indianafamilies.org website will remain until at least the end of 2019. Our Facebook and Twitter accounts will remain open and we plan to continue our postings to those sites. The toll-free number will be ending soon, but in these days of cell phones, it wasn't getting that much traffic anyway. We will still be available to speak with you.
So this is not the time for sad songs - it's a time for new visions. When our plans become more clear, we will post them to social meda. Thank you to all the fine, dedicated people we have worked with over the years - IFFCMH couldn't have done it without you. But mostly, thanks to the families of Indiana. You have given us a sense of purpose and joy that we couldn't have found anywhere else. And now, on to the next step...