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A coalition led by the National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health in partnership with the Council on Addiction, C4 Innovations, SAFE Project, and Boston University is launching SAMHSA's first National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC). NFSTAC is committed to providing training and technical assistance using a lifespan approach that focuses on serious emotional disturbances, serious mental illness and substance use disorders. This approach is anchored by the underlying principles that families play a vital role in supporting their loved ones and are the experts regarding their family support needs. Our approach advances partnership between clinical service providers and family members of individuals experiencing SED/SMI/SUDs to promote stronger and more sustainable intervention outcomes. To meet this goal, we will create connections between families, providers/clinicians, and other community members. We are committed to a lifespan behavioral health approach that focuses equally on SED/SMI and SUD issues and that is culturally grounded in the unique characteristics of varying genres of families (e.g., military, inner-city, remote-rural, tribal). Goals include: (1) Promoting education for clinicians, providers, and others regarding the importance of including family support; (2) Increasing access to comprehensive, multi-modal resources for family members and the general public to increase knowledge of SED/SMI and SUD; (3) Multi-modal training for healthcare professionals, educators, and other providers regarding family support/engagement strategies; (4) Increasing family member and provider understanding of HIPAA and 42CFR regulations pertaining to crisis situations; (5) Creating lifespan resources for families to facilitate access to support and treatment options for their loved ones; and (6) Increasing policymaker knowledge of evidence-based and promising practices such as family peer support. Objectives include, but are not limited to: (1) Provision of both virtual and in-person training for a diverse audience; (2) Development of toolkits to assist families seeking supports and services; and (3) Creation of a virtual library of resources for families, healthcare professionals and community providers. Our team is comprised primarily of family members who have loves ones of all ages with SED/SMI/SUDs as well as individual themselves in recovery. This lived experience, combined with our collective decades of experience as researchers, practitioners, TTA providers, and leaders in family engagement, involvement, and support in SED/SMI/SUD prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery, will inform every aspect of the NFSTAC, which will be anchored by a family-run organization. The effect of entrusting a family-run organization, in collaboration with local, state and national family-run partners, and a strong alignment with professionals who advance the importance of family engagement in their work, to implement the NFSTAC will be transformation in the delivery of TTA. It will also make clear to all stakeholders that lived experience and authentic family voice are the cornerstones of our NFSTAC approach.