Communicating with Parents of CSHCN in California

Project Leadership helps train California parents and family members to be advocates for CYSHCN and systems change. This grant will support the program’s expansion, as well as an initiative to increase diversity among family advocates.

Since 2013, the Foundation has supported Family Voices of California (FVCA) in implementing Project Leadership, a community-based training program designed to increase the number of...

In 2021, the Foundation funded Family Voices of California’s Project Leadership Phase VI: Engaging Diverse Families for Health Systems Improvement. This bridge funding will enable...

Incorporating families’ lived experience with children with special health care needs into program and policy planning is a strategy increasingly used by health care systems...

Family Voices of California paused the majority of planned activities for their original Parent Leadership Expansion and Coordination grant to redirect their work in immediate...

Project Leadership is a community-based parent training program operated by Family Voices of California (FVCA) and designed to increase the number of family representatives of...

For continued support of Project Leadership, a community-based training program designed to increase the number of family representatives able to effectively participate in advisory roles...

To provide networking opportunities for families trained to participate as advisors to public and private health agencies and programs serving children with special health care...

To establish a training infrastructure using an existing curricula, a statewide coordinator and regional trainers and provide family advocacy training three regions of the state.

To replicate a successfully piloted family leadership training program, to continue to create a network of family advocates for CSHCN in California, and to disseminate...