Stories of Parent Leadership from FRIENDS!

Circle of Parents engaged Story Corps, which is a national non-profit organization dedicated to recording stories of every day Americans, to complete this as a project of the FRIENDS National Parent Advisory Council (PAC). The stories are excerpts from interviews of six parent leaders who work in their communities and nationally to help family support and child abuse prevention practitioners and organizations develop effective and relevant programs and policy.

In their own voices, unique stories are presented about how parent leadership positively impacts personal growth, the well-being of an individual’s own family and one’s involvement as a partner with practitioners so that other families could benefit from effective programs and policy. Either singularly or combined, these vignettes can be used to increase public awareness or as tools to support training for staff, network members, partners, parents and other key stakeholders about the value of parent engagement and involvement. While the length of most vignettes is between 4-6 minutes, a 12-minute version is particularly recommended for intensive training.

Read more online at: http://www.friendsnrc.org/cbcap/priority/storycorp.htm