The Central Texas African American Support Conference provides opportunities to learn more about mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, substance use disorder and physical health challenges and solutions. It’s a place to discover health services and how to help yourself and others get the care that’s needed. (CTAAFSC.com).

The theme for this year’s 25th Anniversary of the Central Texas African American Support Conference (CTAAFSC) is Empowering Resilience: Celebrating 25 years of Hope and Healing. The first conference of the CTAAFSC was held in November of 2000. I was working as a Service Coordinator with the Developmental Disabilities unit. It was an exciting time to see the conference come together. It has been happening once a year since that time. I was given the opportunity to speak to some of the Legacy Leaders and the New Leaders of the conference. In celebrating, I was excited to get a look into how it came together and how it is continuing to provide support to our community. The leaders featured are not all the voices and change makers but they educate all of us of how they became involved and their experience with the ongoing achievements and challenges of the conference. This is what I learned from each person. 

Have you ever attended the CTAAFSC? If so, let us know how it impacted your life in the comments.

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