Forums for Advanced Practitioners of Family-Centered Care

The Department of Family-Centered Care at Packard Children's hosts Forums for Advanced Practitioners of Family-Centered Care. The approach of the Packard Forums is to:

1. Break down a FCC Component into a menu of critical elements
2. Present key decisions for each element
3. Discuss pros and cons for each key decision

Each attendee will then select from the menu of critical elements and key decisions to create their "best-fit" program.
 
We limit our Forums to 25 attendees or less in order to provide an opportunity to have in-depth discussions with colleagues from around the nation on the challenges we all face in implementing family-centered care within our home institutions. 

Register for one of our Forums below:

• FCC Parent Mentor Forum: First Attendee
• FCC Parent Mentor Forum, Second Attendee
• FCC Parent Mentor Forum, Third, Fourth, etc. Attendee and
• Creating & Diffusing Family-Centered Care in Health Care Settings: First Attendee
• Creating & Diffusing Family-Centered Care in Health Care Settings - second attendee
• Creating & Diffusing Family-Centered Care in Health Care Settings - third and more attendees
  

Past Forums

The Department of Family-Centered Care has held the following Forums:

2005:	A Training for Parent & Health Care Provider Leaders In Hospital Settings
2006:	A Training for Parent & Health Care Provider Leaders In Hospital Settings
2007:	Creating Effective Family Advisory Councils
2008:	Parents as Partners: Creating Effective Family Advisory Councils & FCC Patient Safety Programs
2009:	Creating Effective & Sustainable Parent Mentor Programs
2009:	Family-Centered Communication Training for Health Care Staff

 
Over the last four years, 85 attendees from 30 hospitals have attended our Forums (number of Forums attended):

Nationwide Children's Columbus Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh British Columbia Children's (2) Westmead-Sydney Children's Royal Melbourne Children's Cincinnati Children's (2) Denver Children's (3) Boston Children's (2) Texas Children's Morgan Stanley Detroit Children's Akron Children's (2) Beth Israel Deaconess Brigham & Women's Oakland Children's (2)

St. Louis Children's (4) Seattle Children's Children's Hospital of Illinois Boise Hospital UCSF (2) Mayo Clinic (3) Joe Dimaggio Children's Kosair Children's Louisville Children's HC of Atlanta Calgary Centre of Health Univ of New Mexico Dornbecher's Children's (2) Sutter - Sacramento Vanderbilt Sutter - Salinas (2)

 
 

Learn More

View the newsletter from our 2nd Annual Forum (PDF)
 

Photos of the Packard Children's Forums

Large group discussion

Training demonstration