Family Engagement

Help Me Grow is designed to help connect children and families to needed services. The latest blog post from Dr. Paul Dworkin, founder of Help Me Grow, helps us to consider how we can reach families where they are and provide the best possible connections. Below is a snippet - click here to read more.

Engaging families in the planning and design process is challenging. These are some of the questions we face:

• How do we best ensure parents’ comfort in participating in deliberations convened and typically dominated by presumed experts?
• How do we meaningfully reward parents for their time and effort? 
• How do we logistically accommodate the busy schedules of parents and respect their child care responsibilities and demands?
• How do we best ensure that consumer involvement is representative of the diverse constituencies served by our childhood systems? 
• How do we best capitalize on the voice of the family to enable our evaluation strategies to be meaningful and valid?