Empowering Parent Leaders to influence Systemic Change
Parent Leaders can collaborate with states, organizations, and communities in a variety of ways to promote change. Systems must build their capacity and change practices in ways that provide opportunities for parents to advise, collaborate and lead efforts at the same time, or at different points in time, depending on their interest and availability.
Pathway to Family and Parent Leadership
Collaborate
• Sit “at the table” and collaborate with system leaders to make decisions, set priorities, co-design programs and strategies, and carry out actions.
• Co-facilitate trainings and and partner on community outreach efforts.
• Serve on boards of organizations and coalitions locally, regionally or at the state level.
Advise
• Provide input through surveys, focus groups, and interviews.
• Participate on advisory boards to help guide program, agency, and/or system decision-making.
• Parents can see how their and other families’ input is being used.
Lead
• Serve as change agents to transform systems and communities by directly leading efforts to identify local needs.
• Set their own agendas and priorities, design strategies, and carry out actions.
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