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Group Activities

DIY Advocacy Center holds group sessions on various topics.  These include monthly co-learning groups on important topics, monthly Advocacy Coaching Groups, weekly book groups, and other special seminars.

Group sessions are free to DIYAC Members and are $10-35 per event for non-members.  Special Events and Reading Groups may also have a nominal materials fee or book cost. 

Co-Learning Group Topics

  • Family Systems: Support for Success
  • Family Agreements (no more contracts)
  • Communication: talking and listening to improve relationships and minimize battles
  • Thinking-Learning-Connecting: Parenting Beyond Conflicts
  • Transitions from Acute Crisis (planning for a return from hospitalization or emergency visit)
  • Mental Health Condition or a Teen’s Difficult Behavior?
  • Safety & Relapse Planning: staying safe while being prepared for possible speed bumps
  • Family-Driven, Child-Centered Care Planning
  • Motivation vs. Ability: how to tune into what’s challenging your child or teen
  • Emotional Regulation: how parent’s emotional stability allows our children to grow

Book Groups

  • The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult in Treatment, Krissy Pozatek, LICSW
  • I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment,  Xavier Amador, PhD
  • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
  • Not By Chance: How Parents Boost Their Teen’s Success In and After Treatment, Tim R Thayne, PhD
  • Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal, Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Special Events

  • “Healthy Family” Visioning Boards
  • REPIT: Reflective Exploration of Parenting Interactions Tool
  • Customizing Your Individualized, Family-Driven and Child-Centered Care & Recovery Plan

 —>>>   Getting Started for Families.

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