This guide will help pediatric practices determine if they are ready to work with families as improvement partners, how to recruit and work with family health partners and how to evaluate, sustain and improve the family health partners role and relationship.

English version | Spanish version

The following are select pages from the Family Engagement Guide, organized by audience, that can be printed out as handouts:

Handouts for Families (PDFs)

• Why become a Family Health Partner?: English | Spanish
• Article: "Who You Gonna Call?"
• Activities and the role of Family Health Partners: English | Spanish
• Orientation to the medical home: English | Spanish
• Essential skill development: English | Spanish

Handouts for Practices (PDFs)

• Activities and the role of Family Health Partners: English | Spanish
• Assessing readiness for practices and staff: English | Spanish
• Sample questions for meeting with interested Family Health Partners: English | Spanish
• Essential skill development: English | Spanish
• Checklist for involving families: English | Spanish
• Patient- and family-centered care organizational self-assessment tool

This guide is a product of Mass Family Voices, a project at the Federation for Children with Special Needs and NICHQ. Funding was provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) through grant funds issued pursuant to CHIPRA section 401(d).