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Annotation: This webinar is part of a community of practice from the DEC Family Partnership Community of Practice begins by outlining a process of allowing equity of voice, creating community, respecting every voice, and sharing the stage. The speaker then (22 minutes in) begins a presentation on "Recommended Practices for Meaningful Family Participation and Engagemennt." This discussion explains how to use the Practice Guidelines for Families and Practitioners to support the meaningful engagement of families of children with disabilities or developmental delays.

Learning Objectives: • Become familiar with the DEC Recommended Practices and the Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center Practice Improvement Tools for Families and Practitioners.

Annotation: Highlights how a family-centered approach to POSC helps states, Tribes, and communities meet the provisions of the 2016 amendments to the CAPTA POSC.

Learning Objectives: • Characterize the essential elements of a family-centered approach. • Summarize Michigan’s collaborative systems efforts across home visiting, substance use disorder treatment, healthcare and child welfare to enhance a family-centered approach to plans of safe care. • Interpret data to understand needs and inform progress. • Recognize equitable access to family-centered services. • Describe stigma.

Annotation: This webinar provides attendees with a roadmap for understanding the science of trust, including strategies that can both develop, nurture, and repair trust between families and professionals. It outlines how researchers have documented new, ongoing, and growing conflict between families of students with disabilities and the professionals who serve them. The presenter explains that the majority of these challenges begin with a lack of trust, that has either never existed in the partnership or deteriorated as a result of a breakdown in communication, incompatible goals, and/or misunderstanding between parties. The webinar reinforces that trust is one of the most commonly mentioned partnership barriers discussed in the literature. Despite this acknowledgment of trust, the science of understanding, developing and nurturing trust is rarely defined, or described in a way that supports conflict prevention or resolution between families and professionals.

Learning Objectives: • Define trust for the family-professional partnership. • Understand the importance of trust. • Identify the barriers to trust. • Describe the relationship between trust and conflict. • Apply strategies used to develop and nurture trust.

Annotation: This presentation, conducted by MCHB, provides a COVID-19 impact overview and recap. Next, breakout discussions are held around 2 topic areas: 1) vaccinating MCH populations and 2) strengthening mental health supports for families.

Learning Objectives: Highlight the role of the TA Providers in: •Supporting the goals of MCHB in building a nation where all mothers, children and families are thriving. •Supporting grantees and/or the MCH field and the system of services for MCH populations, particularly around the impacts of COVID-19. •Amplifying expertise into respective topical areas/audiences. •Describing strategies and successes for the purpose of replicating within the scope of their work.

Annotation: The speakers in this webinar, all funded by HRSA, present the keys to meaningful partnerships with families that include trust and mutual understanding; intentional communication; finding common goals; acknowledging strengths; becoming self aware as individuals and organizations; and recognizing opportunities for partnership. The webinar ends with ideas for sustaining what works and teleservices.

Annotation: Have you ever had trouble communicating with a healthcare provider? In this webinar, Founder of Healing Hugs Haven, Patti DeMuri shared how to set the focus of your appointment on your goals and desired outcomes so that you can better work with your doctor to get the right care for you.

Learning Objectives: • Recognize the challenges and barriers to authentic partnership with providers. • Analyze the role of communication in partnership. • Discover how to determine goals and plan for medical appointments.

Annotation: Cohort #2 of Family Voices of MN, session 5. Authentic parent and professional partnerships. Presented by Carolyn Allshouse.

Learning Objectives: • Identify the key characteristics of authentic parent and professional partnerships. • Advocate and employ strategies for authentic parent and professional partnerships.

Annotation: CYSHCN stands from Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, a group that needs particular attention in our system. This webinar discusses the need for national care coordination standards to help the CYSHCN group. Experts in the field discuss how to achieve the delivery of high quality, family centered and equitable care for this group and talk about their experiences with this work.

Learning Objectives: • Identify who is represented in the CYSHCN group • Explain why national care coordination standards are needed • Reflect on how states can use standards of care coordination of implement better care

Annotation: Family engagement requires a top-down, bottom-up approach where their input permeates the culture of systems, organizations, and programs. Positive outcomes are more likely to be achieved when family engagement is systemic, integrated and comprehensive. Being strategic in how families interact can improve the effectiveness of service delivery in the mental health system. Please watch this recording on Strengthening Systems, Services and Communities for Family Engagement and Leadership.

Learning Objectives: • Identify core principles for meaningfully engaging families. • Learn evidence informed practices for engaging families in child/youth mental health care. • Explore methods for engaging, supporting and retaining family experience and expertise in three key arenas.

Annotation: The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH), in partnership with Bright Futures National Center and the Screening, Technical Assistance, and Resource (STAR) Center, is hosting an educational webinar series, Making Connections: The Critical Role of Family-Centered Care in Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). The goal of this 2-part webinar series is to provide state Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) / CYSHCN programs, pediatricians, families, and others with information about the impact of social determinants of health on CYSHCN and their families, including implementation strategies for state programs. The series will discuss the role of these groups and state systems in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model. This is the second webinar in the series and features 2 state Title V MCH / CYSHCN programs who will discuss how their states are addressing SDOH for CYSHCN.

Learning Objectives: • Describe data trends related to the impacts of SCOH on CYSHCN. • Increase understanding of the medical home model in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN at the state, community, and clinical levels. • Identify strategies being implemented by state MCH Title V/CYSHCN programs, families, and primary care pediatricians to address SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model.