Building Bridges Initiative: Partnering with Families through Family-Driven Practices

This webinar for Texas residential intervention providers and state agency leaders is the second of several webinars and other technical assistance activities that BBI is providing for Texas leaders. In this webinar, Sherri Hammack, the national coordinator for BBI offers the values and guiding principles within the BBI framework for family-driven care practices with residential interventions. The webinar features an Executive Director and Clinical Director from St. Mary’s Home for Children, a residential program in Rhode Island that has made significant steps in partnering with families and implementing family-driven practices that correlate to sustained positive outcomes post-discharge from residential for youth and their family members. The Executive Director of the Parent Support Network of Rhode Island also talks about their partnerships with residential programs and key steps they took to move forward. The presenters were chosen because they are taking their transformational steps within existing resources to implement partnerships with families to advance sustained positive outcomes for youth and families.