About Family Voices
Our Vision
All children, youth, and families, especially those with special health care needs and disabilities, experience their best health and quality of life.
Our Mission
Family Voices is a family-led organization that transforms systems of care to work better for all children and youth, especially those with special health care needs or disabilities. By putting families at the forefront and centering their leadership and lived expertise, we build a culture that includes everyone and fosters equitable outcomes.
Our Values
- Our power as change agents, partners, and experts on our lives.
- A health justice approach to achieve health equity.
- Family- and person-centered care.
- The priority of our dignity, autonomy, and well-being.
- Including all of us equitably across race, ethnicity, class, culture, language, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, geographical location, and other characteristics.
- Our meaningful engagement in decision-making and advocacy.
- Authentic partnership and close collaboration across generations, communities, organizations, systems of care, and governments.
Our Strategic Goals
Our 2024-2029 Strategic Framework is built on four main goals:
- Build capacity
- Advance health equity
- Lead transformation
- Widen our circle
Learn more at familyvoices.org/strategy2024.
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