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Strategies for Inclusive, Intentional, Meaningful & Relevant Family Engagement
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Strategies for Inclusive, Intentional, Meaningful & Relevant Family Engagement
How can we prioritize meaningful and trauma-informed family engagement? How can we ensure that parents/caregivers feel valued as part of the care team – and that their voices are centered alongside the voices of young people?
We know that family support, engagement, and involvement can serve as a protective factor for youth mental health and wellbeing, especially when that support can be facilitated in ways that are culturally-relevant and community-based. But we may not always have the tools, resources, and supports to engage with families in intentional and meaningful ways.
Share your strategies for meaningfully engaging equity-deserving families in youth work.
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ICYMI, the recording of our March 24th webinar, Centering Equity in Family Engagement, is now available, along with all related resources, on the Knowledge Hub.
Check it out, and be sure to share your strategies for inclusive, intentional, meaningful, and relevant family engagement!
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Join YouthREX on Thursday, March 24, from 12:30PM to 3PM ET, for a webinar on Centering Equity in Family Engagement! This webinar will be hosted and facilitated by Dr. Carol Wade, who will deliver a keynote presentation, Strengthening Engagement with Families, as well as conversations with caregivers, advocates, service providers, and researchers to explore inclusive and meaningful family engagement.
Together, we will:
- surface challenges and complexities in families and in family engagement
- unpack assumptions, stereotypes, and biases around definitions of family, what is possible in our engagement work, and what meaningful engagement may look like
- disrupt current practices at the individual, community, and system levels
- explore how to create safe and accepting spaces for families abandoned by systems
- strategize ways to empower and uplift parents and caregivers
- cocreate inclusive, affirming, and strength-based approaches that advance the wellbeing of youth and families
Register online and learn and share with us! (Can’t join us for the live webinar? No worries! This event will be recorded and available on our Knowledge Hub.)
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