11.02.23
Family Voice Round Table
Visual created by Sara O’Keeffe, December 2023 The University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research
Family Voice Round Table Community Spotlight (PDF)
La Voz De la Familia Mesa Redonda
In early November, the Family Leadership Team hosted two virtual roundtable sessions as follow-up to the Spring 2023 series of developmental health family engagement sessions. The goal for all sessions was to create a collective space for parents and caregivers to discuss both simple and complex challenges, celebrate diversity of family experiences, and to collectively craft actionable solutions in response to challenges families face as they seek support and services.
Partners from the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research and Orange Sparkle Ball co-created these sessions with the Family Leadership Team to get to the heart of developmental health concerns and screening challenges, and to identify ways our state’s early
childhood system can best support all families with young children.
Experiences were shared and absorbed, not as isolated stories, but as chapters of a larger narrative that reveal the need for more developmental health outreach, education, and action. A few solutions identified include a family-friendly digital platform to support parents and caregivers in finding answers to questions in real-time, developmental health education for parents and caregivers, and better ways to help families, parents, and caregivers connect with one another for peer support.
The Family Leadership Team will begin moving the needle forward on these solutions in January 2024. If you would like to be an active participant, please contact Cora Ungerer at cora.ungerer@ks.gov.
If your community or organization would like to learn more or is interested in implementing
the ideas developed through these sessions, please contact Rachel Gardner at
rachelgardner@ku.edu.
11.02.23
Family Voice Round Table
Family Voice Round Table Community Spotlight (PDF)
La Voz De la Familia Mesa Redonda
In early November, the Family Leadership Team hosted two virtual roundtable sessions as follow-up to the Spring 2023 series of developmental health family engagement sessions. The goal for all sessions was to create a collective space for parents and caregivers to discuss both simple and complex challenges, celebrate diversity of family experiences, and to collectively craft actionable solutions in response to challenges families face as they seek support and services.
Partners from the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research and Orange Sparkle Ball co-created these sessions with the Family Leadership Team to get to the heart of developmental health concerns and screening challenges, and to identify ways our state’s early
childhood system can best support all families with young children.
Experiences were shared and absorbed, not as isolated stories, but as chapters of a larger narrative that reveal the need for more developmental health outreach, education, and action. A few solutions identified include a family-friendly digital platform to support parents and caregivers in finding answers to questions in real-time, developmental health education for parents and caregivers, and better ways to help families, parents, and caregivers connect with one another for peer support.
The Family Leadership Team will begin moving the needle forward on these solutions in January 2024. If you would like to be an active participant, please contact Cora Ungerer at cora.ungerer@ks.gov.
If your community or organization would like to learn more or is interested in implementing
the ideas developed through these sessions, please contact Rachel Gardner at
rachelgardner@ku.edu.