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Project Leadership Phase VII: Engaging Diverse Families for Health Care Systems Improvement

Organization: Family Voices of California

Primary Contact: Wendy Niekirk-Rhodes

Grant Amount: $900,000 for three years

Date Awarded:

Purpose

The Project Leadership program helps train California parents and family members to be advocates for CYSHCN and systems change. Graduates from the program serve on boards and committees, participate in media interviews, and testify at legislative hearings, providing critical representation for CYSHCN and their families within their communities and with local and state governments. This grant will support the program’s expansion, as well as an initiative to increase diversity among family advocates.

Other Grants to the Same Organization

Project Leadership Planning Grant

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...

Project Leadership Continuation Grant

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...

Project Leadership Engaging Diverse Families for Health Systems Improvement: Phase VI

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...

Project Leadership Coordination and Expansion, COVID-19 Supplement

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 Coordination and Expansion: Phase V

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...

Project Leadership Training Families to Advocate for Systems Change: Phase IV

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...

Communicating with Parents of CSHCN in California

To strengthen the communication capacity and success of California Family Voices and expand the population of parents of CSHCN that can access family support services....

Project Leadership Training Families to Advocate for System Change: Phase III

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...

Project Leadership Training Families to Advocate for System Change

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.

Project Leadership Training Families to Advocate for System Change: Phase II, Replication

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...