Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care
The purpose of the FELSC program is to enhance engagement of families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and individuals with lived experience, within the systems that serve them. FELSC includes two projects: 1) providing national family engagement leadership to support maternal and child health programs that serve CYSHCN and 2) providing TA to Family to Family Health Information Centers.
Support state teams in engaging families in leadership to improve systems of care
Who
Family Voices and NICHQ
Our Role
NICHQ partners with Family Voices on five Learning Collaboratives (one per year) focused on different areas of the MCHB Blueprint for Change. NICHQ and Family Voices plan and co-lead monthly calls with teams and engage team leads in co-creating curriculum and collaborative planning. The Learning Collaboratives will aim to identify and address key barriers to family engagement through quality improvement.
Funder
Subcontractor to Family Voices. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
Kirsten Klatka, MSW
Associate Project Director
