Parent-to-parent community support: Helping families come into contact with evidence-informed concepts and strategies in the context of shared lived experience.

Dr. Ken Carpenter’s more recent community-based work has focused on developing resources that can be utilized by parent peer support networks to help bring evidence-informed concepts and skills to families impacted by substance use problems. He will present on pilot programs directed towards engaging families outside of the clinical service framework. The discussion will include lessons learned from these projects, continued efforts to grow a parent-to-parent support community, and the continued challenges that come along with supporting parent-to-parent efforts to promote evidence informed concepts and strategies in the context of community-based groups.