Block 1 | Understanding Telehealth

This webinar demonstrates to F2Fs what families can expect from telemedicine and explains the broader meaning of telehealth.

This session examines the real-world impact of telehealth policies on families and F2Fs and identifies the opportunities for advocacy.

Block 2 | Building Infrastructure for Telehealth

Topics discussed in this webinar include: The data collection requirements for the mini-grants to F2Fs; Strategies and best practices on collecting data on telehealth activities; Interpreting the data to inform future work with families.

This webinar discusses the infrastructure of delivering telehealth, including hardware, web platforms, and social media. The webinar also covers some tips on how to make the telehealth setting comfortable and effective for families.

Block 3 | Supporting Families Through Telehealth

This telehealth academy session briefly discusses some of the unique needs and experiences of children with medical complexity (CMC) and their families during the pandemic and suggests ideas for F2Fs to get and keep connected with CMC and their families. The session focuses on ways to employ old tools in new, creative ways to help families organize, communicate, meet needs and ensure shared decision making for telehealth- and in response to a world that is so uncertain.

As parents, caregivers and professionals serving families, we are often doing our best to keep some balance in our lives while juggling our many roles and responsibilities within the home and family, workplace and community. This session aims to help participants to understand, express and cope with their own emotions as well as creating a self-care plan to develop resilience in the face of uncertainty and circumstances that chance daily.

At the end of the 12 weeks of live Telehealth Academy sessions, we asked participants for one word to describe their experience with the Academy. This “word cloud” shows their responses!