Pediatrics Supporting Parents

2017-2025

Well-child visits (also called “checkups”) from birth to age three present a nearly universal access point for pediatricians and parents to come together to promote and support children’s well-being. Pediatrics Supporting Parents (PSP) seeks to set universal goals to support children’s healthy social and emotional development during those pediatric well-child visits, aiming to ensure all families, especially those experiencing the impacts of historical and institutional racism, have access to proven practices and resources to create lasting change that will help all children succeed.

PSP developed 14 evidence-based practiced, promoted through five “proof point communities” (PPCs) across four states: North Carolina, New York, Washington, and California (San Francisco and Los Angeles). These PPCs bring together families, pediatricians, and community leaders to co-create the initiative’s strategic priorities.

Family Voices’ Role in PSP

Family Voices provided one-on-one family engagement coaching and technical assistance to all five PPCs, using our evidence-based framework for youth and family engagement. 

  • We worked with teams to implement the Family Engagement in Systems Assessment Tools with a coach.
  • We supported and trained family leaders by establishing a learning community to meet their unique needs. 
  • We provided technical assistance and training to the PPCs to help them build infrastructure for sustainable family engagement.

Learn more about the training and tools we developed by visiting the Resources link. 

 

Pediatrics Supporting Parents is funded by 8 collaborative funding members: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Einhorn Collaborative, Roots and Wings Foundation, Perigee Fund, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Stupski Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Overdeck Family Foundation.

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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.

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