Family Leadership Series
Since 1990, MassFamilies has provided the Family Leadership Series to empower families and individuals to live and engage in their communities.
The voices of families are a powerful tool for creating system-wide change.
MassFamilies hosted the first Family Leadership Series in Southeastern Massachusetts from October 1990 to March 1991.
For over 30 years, the Family Leadership Series has helped develop family leaders to create positive change within their families, communities and beyond.
The Family Leadership Series has a three-fold purpose:
- Offer information about “best practices” for people with disabilities.
- Assist families in creating a vision for their family member and a process to achieve the vision by incorporating that information.
- Develop family leaders who will advocate at the local and state level to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
The Family Leadership Series focuses on:
INITIATIVE & LEADERSHIP
Background of the Family Support Movement; leadership, advocacy, and the significance of self-advocacy; how to effectively advocate for change, ways to influence funding and delivery systems
CREATING A VISION
Families are supported to “imagine better” and create a vision with a for their family members that will guide their leadership and advocacy.
POLICYMAKING
How to develop partnerships between professionals and families and use legislative change to procure resources and enact system-wide change.
Upcoming FLS Information
Metro Mass 2023 Family Leadership Series
Dates:
Saturday and Sunday, March 4-5, 9am-5pm (In-Person)
Friday and Saturday, March 24-25, 9am-5pm (In-Person)
Saturday, April 15, 2023 8:30am-1:00pm (VIRTUAL)
Friday and Saturday, April 28-29, 2023, 9am-5pm (In-Person)
Location:
Framingham, MA
APPLICATION LINK: https://massfamilies.org/training/family-leadership-series/metro-boston-region/