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Join the Pritzker Children's Initiative for their upcoming webinar “Embedding Equity-focused Family and Parent Leadership” with our partners at the National Center for Family and Parent Leadership. This roundtable conversation on developing practices that are responsive to families and focused on parent leadership and the equitable considerations that come to light when bringing parents to the table.

In the prenatal-to-three space, families who would most benefit from new practices or interventions are seldom genuinely involved in co-creating systemic solutions. In this webinar, our presenters will discuss the concept of equity as a central focus of authentic parent collaboration and leadership. To best realize equity-focused practices for family and parent leadership, systems and organizations must set intentional goals for increasing access, removing barriers, and ensuring accountability and community safety.

During the webinar panelists will:

• Share a framework that has proved useful in the context of local government to develop policy that is equity-focused and responsive to community members’ vulnerabilities and needs;
• Discuss how accessibility, safety, and utility merge with the National Center for Family and Parent Leadership’s five practices for embedding equity-focused family and parent leadership; and
• Share examples from parent-leaders who have worked with, and within, bureaucratic environments to create and implement equitable practices for the engagement of family and parent leaders.

Panelist: 

• Chandra Jones, Parent Leader & Owner, The Parent Engagement Group, LLC
• Dr. Francisco J. Villegas, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Associate Professor of Sociology, Kalamazoo College
• Jacob Pinney-Johnson, Parent Leadership Consultant, Early Childhood Investment Corporation & Health Director, Fatherhood Network
• Natalia Carvalho-Pinto, Director of Equity and Leadership, Early Childhood Investment Corporation