Empowering Families and Clients in Program Development

2013

Elizabeth Ridgway
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718-839-7101

Family-Centered Care assures the health and well-being of children and families through a respectful family-professional partnership honoring the strengths, cultures, traditions and expertise that everyone brings to the relationship. Families and clients at the Childrens Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center participated in focus groups to share their perspectives and influence program development. Participants were a diverse group in age, race, ethnicity, diagnoses and amount of time involved with the center. Groups were conducted in English and Spanish. This poster shares the process of planning, conducting and sharing the outcomes of focus groups to ensure program development meets the needs of clients and families through empowered self representation grounded in family centered care. In the focus groups, questions were posed to elicit open ended responses: What do we (CERC) do? What works? What should change?

Family Centered Care, developmental disability, empowerment, program development

Conference presentations and posters presented

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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