Family-Centered and Family-Directed Practices Workgroup

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Family-Centered and Family-Directed Practices
Workgroup

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Workgroup Purpose

• Achieve high quality health care delivery systems
  
• Through the involvement of the full range of
  professionals and communities who assure the
  health and well-being of children or youth and
  their families by
• Advancing respectful family-professional
  partnerships
• Honoring the strengths, cultures, traditions, and
  expertise that everyone brings to these
  relationships.

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Workgroup Members

• LEND (continued)
• Louise Kido Iwaishi, University of Hawaii
• Barbara Levitz, Westchester Institute for Human
  Development
• Laura McGuinn, Oklahoma University
• Mark A. Smith, Nebraska Center on Disabilities
• Karen Tate, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

• Distance Learning
• Kara Conners, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
• LEAH
• Carole Milner, University of Alabama at
  Birmingham
• LEND
• Tanya Baker-McCue, University of New Mexico
• Gina Harris, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Workgroup Members

• Pediatric Dentistry
• Penny Leggott University of Washington
• PPC
• Susan Horky, University of Florida
• Angela Miney, University of Florida
• Schools of Public Health
• Anita Farel , University of North Carolina at
  Chapel Hill
• Bev Mulvihill, University of Alabama at
  Birmingham
• Cyndi Cortes (Trainee), University of Alabama at
  Birmingham

• Nursing
• JoAnne Youngblut, Florida International
  University
• National Center for Cultural and Linguistic
  Competence
• Tawara Goode
• MCHB
• Audrey Koertvelyessy

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Workgroup Activities

• Identify and analyze utility of available
  family-centered and family directed practices
  curricula and materials
• Develop indicators of comprehensive instruction
  in family-centered and family-directed practices
• Develop indicators for field placements that lead
  to cultural and linguistic competency and
  understanding of family-centered and
  family-directed practices
• Identify and assess current continuing education
  modules and teaching strategies targeted to
  faculty
• Develop guidelines for Family Advisory Boards and
  place on Training Program Web site

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Products To Date

• Resource Table displaying summary information
  about approved family centered and family
  directed training materials
• Indicators of comprehensive instruction in family
  centered and family directed training materials
• Compendium of Family-Centered Field Experiences
• Guidelines for Family Advisory Boards

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Topic for Family Centered Workgroup Breakout
Discussion

• What do we want to measure regarding family
  centered practice?
• -Trainees' knowledge of what?
• -Trainees' ability to do what? (what skills?)

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Future Workgroup Plans

• Assess additional materials for faculty
• Prepare advisory materials for training programs
  regarding family involvement in agency policy
• Develop guidelines for instructors on recruiting,
  training, and facilitating participation of
  family members as presenters and co-trainers