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

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Consistent Practice

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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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