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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

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

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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

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

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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

Preview of a document with the Family Voices logo and a subheading 'overview of family-led organizations'

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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