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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Partnering with Dads to Enhance Pediatric Care
This tool offers practical tips for pediatric practices to make the practice environment more father friendly.
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.
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 Critical Role of Dads: Exploring the Benefits of Father-Friendly Pediatric Care
Explores efforts to incorporate fathers’ experiences and voices in pediatric care and shares presenters’ diverse personal and professional experiences, including a family advocate, a pediatrician, and a longtime father-friendly care advocate.
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.
Family Voices Resources
Showcases an online resource library with literacy-friendly materials to support the health and well-being of children and youth with special health care needs.
Engaging Community Members: A Guide to Equitable Compensation
Provides tips to help organizations create clear guidelines and processes for equitable compensation, while maintaining flexibility in their approach.
A Patient and Family Advisory Council Workplan: Getting Started
Offers a workplan for pediatric practices implementing a patient and family advisory council.
Tips for Recruiting Patients and Families to Serve in Advisory Roles
Shares strategies that pediatric practices can use for recruiting patients and families to participate in an advisory council.
A Standard of Compensation for Youth and Family Partners
Provides support to families collaborating with researchers on studies and outlines fair compensation for their work.
Patient and Family Advisory Councils Blueprint: A Start-Up Map and Strategy Guide
Provides resources for health care institutions and providers to build and sustain high performing patient and family advisory councils with key lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
