Mary J. Marin, the executive director of the Family Center Children's Special Health Care Services (CSHCS) Division is happy to announce that the Family center is able to offer Family Involvement Mini-Grants to local health departments. The mini-Grants will increase interaction between the health departments and families,enabling families to provide input and work together to make program improvements at the local level. The grants will allow a variety of activities.
Example of grant activities are:
- Increasing the use of parents as paid staff to perform various functions
- Building a CSHCS database of client e-mail addresses
- Conducting Surveys to assess program effectiveness
- Conducting family forums
- Underwriting family oriented activities and events
- Providing programming costs such as childcare,stipends and speaker fees
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