New Toolkit from NCFL and SEF: Unleashing the Power of Family Voice

What does it look like when families have a meaningful role in shaping the policies that affect their children and communities? Across the South, organizations are finding ways to bring families into policy conversations from the start, drawing on their lived experiences to identify challenges, shape solutions, and inform decisions.

A new toolkit from the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) and the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) highlights these approaches and what others can learn from them.

Unleashing the Power of Family Voice features promising practices from organizations across the Southern Early Childhood Education Justice (SECEJ) Network, along with recommendations and practical resources for strengthening family voice and leadership.

Readers will find successful examples of family advisory structures, compensated leadership roles, storytelling, advocacy, shared decision-making, and other approaches already happening. Explore the toolkit to discover ideas that can help move family voice from an afterthought to an intentional part of policy development.