Parent Partnership Learning Community Overview
Overview: Oklahoma Parent Partnership Learning Community is an open, virtual, and equity-based forum (quarterly meetings) that aims to work with frontline staff and community leaders to incorporate family voice as a critical quality improvement strategy. Facilitated by statewide advocates, we aim to advance family voice, listen to community barriers, and co-design innovative solutions.
Specifically, we are supporting local communities as they advance six collaborative strategies to increase effective partnerships that support child/family well-being, while also strengthening organizations and communities, especially in zip codes experiencing inequities:
- Hope and Trauma trainings: develop a common language and shared vision for interagency collaboration.
- Handle With Care: immediately connects children and families with supports, as needed, after a traumatic exposure.
- Peer support groups: improves social determinants of health by offering responsive relationships, reducing sources of stress, and building core skills to increase stability with trained facilitators.
- Parent partnership advisory committees: advance leadership in neighborhoods experiencing inequities to co-design solutions with trained facilitators.
- Family resource centers/Community Hope Centers/Community Schools: coordinate local services among various organizations to strengthen family and community well-being.
- Trauma-informed policies and procedures: improves systems that addresses health disparities and strengthens community well-being.
