Mountain State Parent-Child & Adolescent Network (MSP-CAN) Incorporated, is a private non-profit, family-run organization that improves outcomes for children with serious emotional disorders and their families. MSP-CAN improves outcomes for children and families by increasing access to comprehensive, coordinated, and individualized care that is child-centered, family-focused, and strength-based.
When children with serious emotional disorders receive individualized, strength-based care provided in partnership with their family the following goals are achieved:
 | Families remain together |
| Children stay in their communities |
| Children succeed in school, both academically and socially |
| Children abide the law |
| Children and their families thrive |
Our Mission
Mountain State Parent-Child & Adolescent Network empowers parents, caregivers, and youth through support and education. MSP-CAN also empowers providers, administrators, and policy makers to make change to the child-serving system through advocacy and education.
Company Profile
The Network promotes reforms in the service delivery system through a continuum of interrelated activities that educate and support parent, inform practitioners, and administrators and policy makers.
Training for parents assists them in overcoming the shame, blame, guilt, and stigma associated with childhood mental illness. In addition, parents learn about emotional disorders, treatments, and their local service delivery system. MSP-CAN assists parents by building hope and confidence; which enables them to partner effectively with providers and schools around developing and implementing individualized, strength-based care for their children.
Information for administrators and policy makers assists them in understanding the multiple factors that contribute to the development of emotional disorders and the need for interagency collaboration and family partnership to achieve optimal outcomes. Through these efforts, administrators and policy makers will create interagency collaborative programs that value partnership with families and provide individualized, strength-based care.
The Network sponsors education and training of parents and provides instruction to parents in order for them to become trainers themselves.
Along with the parent support instruction, the Network provides education for practitioners, agency administrations, and policy makers.
The Network also plans and conducts research about outcomes for children and their families. Data resulting from this research is disseminated to state and government mental health agencies and to other concerned parties to demonstrate the benefits of these efforts.
In addition to training, MSP-CAN provides advocacy to assist parents in overcoming systemic barriers to an individual's strength-based care. Through advocacy, both parents and practitioners learn communication and problem resolution strategies needed to partner effectively.
Is Mountain State Parent-Child & Adolescent Network Working?
MSP-CAN has developed a network of parent volunteer/advisors to educate, support, and assist caregivers in accessing the multiple service delivery system, inform practitioners, administrators, and policy makers in West Virginia. As a result of these parent volunteer/advisors, parents achieve greater visibility, exert more influence over the service delivery systems that serve their children, and operate more collaboratively to promote a model of mental health services that is responsive to the needs of children and families in the state's urban and rural communities.
Contact Information
- Telephone
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1-800-CHILD85
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- Physical address
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1201 Garfield Street McMechen, WV 26040
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- Postal address
P.O. Box 6658 Wheeling, WV 26003
- Electronic mail
General Information: cdugan@mspcan.org
Webmaster: sheepie_2006@yahoo.com