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Family Engagement Resources

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Advocacy/leadership
Assessing Family Engagement
Care coordination
Family-professional partnerships
Health equity
Youth leadership

Advocacy/leadership

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Telling Your Story: A Parent Guide & Workbook

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Family Involvement in Social Change

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Two Briefs on Families as Partners in Medicaid and Managed Care Organizations

Supports for Families of CYSHCN: A Quick Reference Guide to Family-Led Organizations

Preview of an email newsletter called the Resource eBlast.

Resource eBlast

A conference program from the 2019 Family Voices Leadership Conference, with photos of families and children.

2019 Family Voices Leadership Conference Presentation Slides and Materials

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Leading by Convening

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Polly Arango Mentoring Initiative Summary

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Engagement of Family Leader Organizations in Non-CSHCN Initiatives

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Families in Program and Policy FiPPs Reports – MCH and CYSHCN

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Growing Your Capacity to Engage Diverse Communities by working with Community Liaisons and Cultural Brokers

You Are an Advocate

Assessing Family Engagement

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The Family Engagement in Systems Tools (FESAT and FES Toolkit)

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Family-Centered Care Assessment (FCCA)

Care coordination

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Shared Plan of Care (SPoC)

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Building Partnerships and Educating Families and Professionals about Supported Decision-Making

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Partnering with Your Child’s Provider

Block letters with the words: Tell Them Your Story, telling your story to make a change.

Telling Your Story: A Parent Guide & Workbook

Family-professional partnerships

Supports for Families of CYSHCN: A Quick Reference Guide to Family-Led Organizations

A slide titled 'systems-level family engagement' with a collage of photographs showing people with disabilities coming together.

Intro to the Family Engagement in Systems Tools (FESAT) Webinar

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MCH Transformation-Title V Block Grant Guidance: Sections in the Guidance Where Family & Consumers are Mentioned

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Top 10 Reasons to Promote Partnerships between Family-to-Family Health Information Centers and Title V Block Grant Programs

Framework for Assessing Family Engagement

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Two Briefs on Families as Partners in Medicaid and Managed Care Organizations

Preview of the slide deck for the webinar on how family organizations can help shape the title V block grant.

How Family Organizations Can Help Shape and Implement the Title V Block Grant

A preview of the resource document, with text and photos of families and children.

Tips for Title V Programs: Partnering with Families

A conference program from the 2019 Family Voices Leadership Conference, with photos of families and children.

2019 Family Voices Leadership Conference Presentation Slides and Materials

Screenshot of the partnering with your child's provider document.

Partnering with Your Child’s Provider

A preview of the resource document, with text and photos of families and children.

Tip Sheet: Lessons Learned from MCH and CSHCN Title V Directors

A preview of the slides from the resource's presentation about partnering in the Title V block grant process.

Partnering in the Title V Block Grant Process

Health equity

Document titled 'growing your capacity to engage diverse communities' with a photo of a family.

Growing Your Capacity to Engage Diverse Communities by working with Community Liaisons and Cultural Brokers

Best Practices in Cultural Competence

Preview of the document summarizing the polly arango mentoring initiative.

Polly Arango Mentoring Initiative Summary

Document titled 'growing your capacity to engage diverse communities' with a photo of a family.

Engaging Diverse Families in Leadership for Systems Change

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Collaborating with Non-Traditional Partners to Develop Diverse Family Leaders

Youth leadership

Starting and Sustaining A Youth Advisory Board

Preview of the slide deck from the participating in advisory groups presentation.

Participating in Advisory Groups

Working With Adult Allies<br />

Working With Adult Allies

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