NH Parent Partner Strategy – Core Elements
RECRUITMENT Engagement and
Mobilization
TRAINING Capacity
Development
ROLES Involvement Continuum
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Core Components
Better Together with Birth Parents
Father Engagement Action Team
Birth Families – Foster Families Partnerships
Parent Partner Program Design and Development
Parent Voice
Partner
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Core Concepts
Partner – Someone who has a stake (a stakeholder)
Partnership – mutually beneficial relationship
Collaboration – shared responsibility – shared leadership –
shared decision making
Meaningful Parent Engagement
Parent Partner
Parent Leader
Parent as Change Agent
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Parent Roles
[Participant ] [Voice] [Action Team] [Leadership Team] [Parent Partner]
Crafting meaningful roles for parents
NH Parent Involvement Continuum
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Parent Roles
Parent Participant at meetings, events, and celebrations
Parent Voice at Committees, Initiatives, Workgroups, and Panels
Parent Committee Member
Parent Speaker at Conferences and Seminars
Parent Training Co-Facilitator
Parent Leader
Parent Mentor
Parent Advocate
Parent Coach
Parent Partner
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Specific Contexts
DO Staff Meetings
Breakthrough Series Initiative
Better Together with Birth Parents
Father Engagement Action Team
Practice Model Committees
FACES Training and Graduation
Framework for Collaboration
Birth Parent Foster Parent Panels at Conferences
Birth Parent Foster Parent Partnership
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Parents Involved
30+ Parents
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Broader Context
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Anchor – Beliefs, Guiding Principles, and Strategies
Family Voice
Partnering with Families
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Consistent Practice
Accountability
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Consolidations
Budget Constrains
Drive toward Evidence Based-Best Practices
NH Parent Partner Strategy – NH Practice Model
NH Parent Partner Strategy –A Systematic Strategy
A Strategy
A Program: The Parent Partner Program
A New Way of Relating to Parents Promotes Parent Voice
Promotes Parent Peer to Peer Resourcing
Create meaningful roles and opportunities for parents
to partner with us
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Parent Partnerships
Parent as Resource and Leaders in the following areas:
One on One:
Mentor, Role Model, Partner
Programs and Policies:Committees, Initiatives, Actions Teams
Training: Parent Voice and Co-Facilitator
NH Parent Partner Strategy – A Systematic Strategy
Culture Shift – Engaging Parents Positively
Forging New Relationships
Strategic Decisions – Mobilizing Resources
Engaging Stake-Holders
Creating Parent Partnership Action Teams
Developing Trainings and Tools for Change
Creating a Realistic 3 Year Strategic Plan
NH Parent Partner Strategy – A Systematic Strategy
Set Clear Practice Standards that Promote Parent Partnerships SJD Reflect Staff Roles and Accountabilities as Parent
Leadership Ambassadors
Promote Visibility of Parents
Valuing and Honoring Parent’s Voice
Recognizing Parents as Experts
Celebrating Parents’ Positive Impact in Practice
NH Parent Partner Strategy – A Systematic Strategy
Systems Implications
Policy – Parent Involviment and Leadership Policy
Bridges – Identify and implement needed changes –
When staff need to record in Bridges, that is when they will know this is for real.
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Research Evidence
Why?Peer to Peer – Parent to Parent
Partnerships improves child welfare outcomes, evidence shows
Contra Costa Study
Parents felt:
Supported
Informed
Empowered
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Research Evidence
Shared Experience “The parent partner is still more … they’re on your level
and they’ve experienced what they have experienced;
they went through what you went through. And the CPS
workers haven’t went through it; they just went through
the school. Most of the CPS workers are just school
smart—they’re not experienced and went through it.”
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Research Evidence
Positive Outcomes for Parents Increased Family Engagement
Increase in Safe Reunification
Addressed parents’ intrapersonal barriers
Improved Collaboration Challenges
Barrier Bursting – Helped Overcome Social Isolation
Instilled Hope
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Research Evidence
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Why?
System’s level “Constituent input provides a perspective and
source of expertise that cannot be found
anywhere else.” BTBP Workgroup
As Co-Trainers – quite transformative
experience for professional and parents
NH Parent Partner Strategy – Parent Roles
[Participant ] [Voice] [Action Team] [Leadership Team] [Parent Partner]
Crafting meaningful roles for parents
NH Parent Involvement Continuum
Resources National Resource Center for Permanency and
Family Connections http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/family-
leadership-and-perspectives.html
Child Welfare Information Gateway
http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/promoting/part
nering.cfm
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Building Blocks to Successful
Partnership: Birth Parents |
better together
Building Blocks to Successful Partnership: Birth Parents
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