Program areas at Family Voices of Minnesota
Connected Grant: provides parent to parent support for families with children and youth with disabilities, including providing information, material, and education on dealing with the healthcare system and thus securing good healthcare for their child. The grant supports a program that is implemented through a state-wide network of trained volunteer parents and professionals.
MN Dept of Human Service : the grant provides parent-to-parent support to families with children with disabilities. This includes providing educational material, training, advocacy, and peer-to-peer support for these families.
Family to Family grant: the grant establishes a statewide Parent to Parent Program for families with children with disabilities and youth with disabilities and/or chronic illness. The goals are to provide such families with information and resources for accessing the best services and healthcare for their child, train families to be volunteer support parents, train healthcare professionals about the benefits of peer to peer support, and provide one on one support to families wlth a child with a disability or chronic ilness.
Gillette grant: Provide advocacy and information to families leaving the hospital to find the resources needed to navigate the healthcare system.
DHS Legislative grant: Provides support for parent to parent programs to assist parents with children and young adults in finding the best healthcare options for their child with disabilities or chronic health issues. This includes direct parent to parent support and well as providing educational material and other advocacy informaton.
Misc. grants: Various small grants to aid in the primary mission of the organization.