Family-Centered and Equitable Care Approaches

Family-centered care occurs at two levels 1) during patient and family encounters and 2) in office systems and community partnerships which is improved by partnering with family advisors to create change. This page is dedicated to the first. View the family advisor page to learn more about the second level.

Watch these webinars and learn strategies to improve discussion, health promotion, and risk counseling with families by practicing strength-based, family-centered approaches including trauma and resilience informed care and health equity.

• How and Why? Trauma and Resilience Informed Care
• Nadine Burke Harris Ted Talk "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime"
• Family-Centered Approaches Webinar Slides
• Common Factors Handout
• Common Elements Handout
• Eliciting Family Strengths Scripts

To create more equitable approaches to care, learn more about the levels of racism and bias in communication.

• Why Race Matters from Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, FAAP and slides
• Bias in Communication from Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, FAAP

Family-centered discussions, counseling, and workflow resources:

• CSSP Strengthening Families
• CSSP Strengthening Families Action Sheets
• AAP EBCD 1,000 Days
• Bright Futures Eliciting Parent Strengths Tip Sheet
• Bright Futures PreSip2/UVM Eliciting Parent Strengths 18 and 24 months
• HELP and Common Factors
• Community Care North Carolina HELP Common Factors Approach and Motivational Interviewing Guide and Common Factors video simulation, "You Can Help"
• NCTSN – Secondary Trauma, Self Care (Self Care for Educators)

Equitable practice changes and care improvement resources:

• Watch and learn from this Ted Talk on Allegories on Race with Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
• Take and reflect on your results from Harvard University Implicit Association Test
• Discuss what practices changes can be made to implement recommendations from The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health. Engage families to understand their perspectives and areas they see for improvement in your office environment and practice policies.
• Continue to learn about racism and equity approaches with these resources and discussion guides AAFP EveryONE Toolkit and George Washington Community Resilience Toolkit (Pair of ACEs)

Learn from these mental health integration toolkits and implement practice changes:

• Pediatric Integrated Care Collaborative (PICC) Toolkit
• AAP Mental Health Primary Care Tools
• Child Trends Trauma and Resilience Informed Care