North Dakota Federation Of Families For Children's Mental Health

North Dakota Federation Of Families For Children's Mental Health (NDFFCMH), doing business as Ndcmh, is a non-profit organization that provides family peer support services to children with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and their families across North Dakota. The organization aims to enhance family/caregiver participation and empowerment through partnerships and collaborations with stakeholders to improve mental health services in the state.

NDFFCMH has received significant federal funding through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for its Statewide Family Network Program. This program provides parent peer support services, where families are matched with a parent coordinator with lived experience raising a child with SED to help them access needed services and supports within the state's mental health system of care. The program also focuses on enhancing knowledge and skills related to mental health services for family/caregiver peer support providers and the mental health workforce. Additionally, NDFFCMH works on increasing family involvement and leadership in workforce and program development to enhance access to evidence-based and promising practices that are holistic, family/caregiver-driven, and trauma-informed. The organization collaborates with the state to create a state-certified Family Peer Support and Youth Peer Support training program and trains families and caregivers to be Parent Peer Support providers across North Dakota. NDFFCMH has also received sub-grant funding from the North Dakota Department of Human Services through the Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services program.