Family-centered care — that prioritizes families’ needs, expertise, preferences, and values — can result in improved relationships between patients, caregivers, and providers. These practices can also improve experience of care, and ultimately, create a more equitable environment that supports better patient outcomes.
Following are resources to support the co-creation of meaningful partnerships between families and providers.
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Co-Creating Equitable Partnerships Between Families and Child Health Care Providers
Practical strategies that pediatric practices can use to meaningfully engage patients and families, as well as inform broader care system improvements.
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Families as Partners: Transforming Child Health Care Together
Shares insights on effective partnerships from a family engagement advisor on CHCS’ Accelerating Child Health Transformation initiative.
The Role of Child Care in Family-Centered Approaches to Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
Discusses the impact that quality child care can have on a parent’s ability to access and sustain SUD treatment, and outlines potential policy and practice levers to support it.
Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children Youth, and Families
Identifies transformative policies, practices, and norms that can help tackle disparities and inequities in the child healthcare system. The report highlights innovative mechanisms and levers that can help improve child and adolescent health.
A Roadmap for Effective Community Engagement in Healthcare
Provides a roadmap for how health care organizations and people with lived experience can realize the full potential of authentic community engagement to build trust, advance health equity, create cost-savings and efficiencies, and create healthy and thriving communities.
Partnering with Dads to Enhance Pediatric Care
This tool offers practical tips for pediatric practices to make the practice environment more father friendly.
10 Effective Ways to Engage with Schools
Offers 10 strategies and examples for children's hospitals to engage with school systems.
Improving Pediatric Care Through Patient and Family Engagement Assessments
This tool outlines practical strategies to help pediatric practices, health systems, and community-based organizations understand considerations for implementing a patient and family engagement assessment and choose the best assessment to meet the needs of the population served.
Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations
Explains how Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington implemented key elements of whole child health to help children and youth thrive.
Early Childhood Ecosystems Transformation Accelerator Social Impact Lab
Provides training, tools and resources to help community members and leaders deepen their understanding of their early childhood ecosystem.
Co-Creating Equitable Partnerships Between Families and Child Health Care Providers
Offers strategies that pediatric practices can use to meaningfully engage patients and families, as well as inform broader care system improvements.
Engaging Community Members: A Guide to Equitable Compensation
Offers guidance to help health care organizations develop appropriate compensation practices for community members — including adults, youth, families, and caregivers.
The Impact of Youth Voices in Transforming Pediatric Care
Spotlights promising strategies for inviting youth perspectives to inform pediatric practice transformation efforts shared by a nationally recognized youth leader, a pediatrician, and youth advisors.
