Meaningful Family Partnership for Quality Improvement

Ensure Best Practices for QI with Meaningful Family Partnership

These tip sheets, strategies, reflections, and samples will guide you on how to form meaningful family partnerships. Let these suggestions transform your family relationships and, ultimately, your systems of care.

Real Talk: What Does it REALLY Take to Meaningfully Partner with Families

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Real Talk: What Does it REALLY Take to Meaningfully Partner with Families

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Family-designed Outcome Measures: Adding Value to Healthcare

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Why Compensation is Critical

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Partnering with Families for Quality Improvement (QI)

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5 Stops on the Road to Writing a Job Description for Families in a Health-Related Project

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Best Practices to Integrate Family-Led Organizations in Systems Improvement

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Integrated Leadership

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This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number #UJ6MC32737: Health Care Delivery System Innovations for Children with Medical Complexity ($2,700,000 annually). This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsement be inferred, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. government. Anna Maria Padlan, HRSA/MCHB Project Officer

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Our Vision

With families at the center of health care, all children and youth reach their full potential and health disparities are eliminated.

Our Mission

Family Voices is a national organization and grassroots network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities that promotes partnership with families—including those of cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity—in order to improve health care services and policies for children.

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