Tried and True Strategies for strengthening Family Leadership Strategies at Community and State Leve

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Tried and True Strategiesfor strengthening
Family Leadership Strategies at Community and
State Levels

• National Family Voices Conference
• May 24,2007

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Presentation by Cassie Johnston

• Program Director
• Family Voices of Washington
• Family to Family Health Information Center

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Leadership It takes all of usWashington State

• Family Leadership Institute
• November 2004

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Overall Objectives

• Enhance family leadership skills
• Connect and network with other Washington State
  family leaders
• Enable family leaders to feel more confident in
  taking active roles as decision makers at the
  individual, community, state, and national levels
• Learn about CSHCN data and national performance
  measures

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Key Elements

• Collaborative planning with all the state family
  organizations and identified programs
• Adequate time for planning
• Leadership training and experience
• Support and mentoring during and following the
  training
• Outreach to a variety of community brokers
• Focus on diversity with intent both in the
  content and participation
• Financial support for participants (child care,
  transportation, and consultant fees

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Day One

• We were introduced to a model of leadership for
  effective collaboration and shared problem
  solving
• We learned strategies for structuring
  conversations that support shared learning and
  effective decision making
• We learned communication skills necessary for
  engaging in crucial conversations.

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Day Two

• We learned about the definition, uses and
  limitation of performance measures
• Listened to family stories and saw how they
  linked to specific national performance measures
• Learned that we can access technical assistance
  about CSHCN data by going on line

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Strategies

• Knowing the system or history
• Telling our storing sharing our experience
• Building our communication skills
• Being creative
• Activities that are geared toward change
• Supporting diverse perspectives with intent
• Finding away for opportunities to created and
  supported

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Leadership

• Takes all of us
• The individuals have to be in empowered to make a
  difference for others
• Takes great resilience and staying power
• Must be able to work as and individual and be
  part of a team
• We must recognize it is built over time and
  through relationships
• You may not see the results of your work but you
  should feel it

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Henry Ford

• Coming together is the beginning
• Staying together is progress
• Being together is Success