Family Support Network: January 2026 Meetings and Workshops
- Jody Miller
- Dec 16, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 17, 2025
Region A Food Resources
If you are a family in our community struggling to put food on the table, please know one thing above all else: You are not alone, and help is available.
Smart Start/licc meetings
Local Interagency Coordinating Councils (LICCs) are community-based advisory groups made up of local service providers and parents working together to make sure that all families know about early intervention services.
Here is a list of the meetings happening in December.
Cherokee County - Jan 07 | 1 PM | Join Meeting Here
Appalachian Community Services
Graham County - Jan 08 | 9:30 AM | Join Meeting Here
Appalachian Community Services
Haywood County - Jan 21 | 10:30 AM | Join Meeting Here
Angel’s Watch, Tobacco Prevention, Medicaid Enrollment
Jackson County - Jan 14 | 12:00 PM | Join Meeting Here
Tobacco Prevention, Medicaid Enrollment
Macon County - Jan 22 | 12:30 PM | Join Meeting Here
Vecinos, Medicaid Enrollment
Qualla Boundary - Jan 28 | 12:00 PM
Tobacco Prevention, Medicaid Enrollment
Swain County - Jan 13 | 10:00 AM | Join Meeting Here
NC Radon Program, Tobacco Prevention, Medicaid Enrollment
Caregiver connections
Family Support Network Caregiver Connections is a support group for caregivers raising a child with special needs which can be physical, behavioral, or medical as well as foster, adoptive or kinship families.
This month, we are asking for input for 2026 meetings.
Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey to help provide relevant and timely information to the group meetings.
Attendees can join in person or virtually.
Jan 08 | 6:00 pm | Murphy
Jan 15 | 6:00 pm | Waynesville
Jan 14 | 5:00 pm | Cherokee (in-person only)
Registration
RSVP Deadline: Two days prior to the meeting.
Please RSVP by email to Jody L. Miller at jmiller@rapc.org and note whether you plan to attend virtually or in-person.
Link to join virtually will be sent after RSVP is received.
workshops
10 am to 12 pm | In-person or Virtual
Children’s Developmental Services Agency, 87 Bonnie Lane, Sylva
Seminar 1—01/24/26-- Positive Parenting for Children with a Disability. Covers the seven core principles of positive parenting.
Seminar 2—02/28/26-- Helping Your Child Reach Their Potential. Build on the first seminar and show ways to use the principles to promote the child’s development by teaching the child new skills and behaviors.
Seminar 3—03/28/26-- Changing Problem Behavior into Positive Behavior. Parents are introduced to six steps to help manage problem behavior and help the child learn alternative and more adaptive behaviors to replace the problem behavior.
RSVP is required three days prior to the seminar with name(s) of attendee(s), which seminar(s) attending, and if attending in-person or virtual. A minimum of three attendees is needed. Link will be sent the Friday before the seminar.
For more information, please contact Jody at jmiller@rapc.org.
Regional Resources & Support
Family Support Network of Region A Tabling
Looking for information and/or resources and services? Visit Family Support Network of Region A at a local Department of Social Services.
Clay County—January 29, 2026 –- 8:30 am to 12 pm
Graham County—January 8, 2026 –- 12 pm to 4:30 pm
Jackson County—January 5, 2026 — 12 pm to 4:30 pm
Macon County—January 12, 2026 — 12 pm to 4:30 pm
Swain County—January 20, 2026 — 12:30 pm to 4 pm
Here is a PDF of additional support from organizations throughout our region.
For questions or more information about Family Support Network, please reach out to Jody Miller at jmiller@rapc.org.
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