Meet the Family Advisory Committee Members...

The Family Advisory Committee brings together those with lived experience as biological, kinship, foster and adoptive parents along with those working to serve the community in a variety of supportive ways.

We have members raising the voices of youth and families across the Commonwealth and across all five DCF defined regions. Our members collectively have hundreds of years of direct service, system navigation, lived, and community engagement experience to draw upon in informing our work.

We have specialty experience in many areas...

Diversity Education

Fatherhood

Foster/Kinship Support

Grandparent Support

LGBTQIA+ Support

Mental Health

Substance Use

These same members help to inform our committees and our work through direct contribution and engagement with DCF, child welfare advocates and systems, and help to “raise the family voice” in policy and practice matters.

We are grateful to everyone for their contribution of knowledge and advocacy in this critical work.