This meeting focused on learning what it means to partner with families in school behavioral health. Family Engagement Practice Group leaders shared the evidence-based approaches that promote authentic engagement of families and model family engagement strategies that can be easily applied in schools.
The meeting objectives:
- Explore evidence-based and promising strategies that promote meaningful engagement of families.
- Use the Grounding Assumptions strategy to examine the implicit bias around family engagement.
- Learn about national and local resources on family engagement.
- Showcase a successful family engagement strategy to model important conversations that can deepen understanding about what it means to partner with families (e.g., Family café).
Presenters:
- Chioma Oruh, Ph.D., Family Engagement Practice Group
- Linda Sheriff, M.Ed., Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, The George Washington University
- Ronald LaFleur, MSW, LICSW, Department of Behavioral Health