Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

During this Institute, participants will see a demonstration of the futures planning process and will have the opportunity
to practice graphic facilitation techniques through team role play activities. Video clips of RENEW meetings and
problem solving examples will also be included.
The faculty team for the session will offer the perspectives of a youth who first experienced the RENEW model 3 years
ago and who continues to access her social support network; a RENEW facilitator who has worked in school and mental
health settings and who now teaches others to become facilitators and the model developer and researcher who has
structured the RENEW training process, manual, evaluation, and fidelity tools.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: JoAnne Malloy, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Institute on Disability, University
of New Hampshire, Concord, NH
Kelsey Carroll, Young Adult, Concord, NH
Jonathon Drake, M.S.W., RENEW Project Training Manager, Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire,
Concord, NH
INSTITUTE #9 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 8:30 AM SATURDAY • SUN 4-5-6
Strategies for a Family-Driven, Youth-Guided Approach in Policy and Practice
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OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the family-driven, youth-guided approach to policy and practice and explain how it affects outcomes for
children and youth involved in child-serving systems
2. To explain the importance of “perspective taking” when working with families
3. How to be strengths-based
4. Effective strategies for implementing a family-driven and youth-guided approach at both the system and service
delivery levels, including concrete examples in all aspects of work with families
5. To develop action steps to implement family-driven care upon return to their communities
This Institute will focus on the core system of care value of family-driven, youth-guided approaches in policy and in
service delivery. Faculty will lead participants through an examination of their current practices, the meaning of familydriven,
youth-guided care and will provide concrete techniques for infusing this approach into their work at all levels.
Using real life experiences from the field and techniques learned through training and practice, the faculty will provide
strategies for meaningfully involving parents and youth as partners, recognizing their expertise regarding their families,
and incorporating parent/youth voice as a critical part of policy development, evaluation of services, and program design.
The information and strategies to be highlighted are based on the experience of Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC)
and its family support staff. As Tennessee’s statewide family organization, TVC has been a partner in five system of care
sites working with many entities and systems to implement family-driven care at the service provision and policy levels.
The Institute is designed to inform the work of others to operationalize this value.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• An examination of the meaning of family-driven care and participants’ current approaches
• How a family-driven approach impacts work with families and can improve outcomes
• The importance of perspective taking and being strengths-based in work with families and the reasons why being
truly family-driven can be difficult to accomplish
• Specific, concrete strategies to address barriers and to be family-driven in policy, agency procedures, service
provision, program design, and interactions with other systems
• An opportunity to develop action steps specific to each participant’s role in their community to implement a familydriven,
youth-guided approach in their home communities and states
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