Family Leadership Training Opportunities

Family Leadership

Whether you are looking for leadership skills to enhance your knowledge for your own child or are looking to progress and move towards change at the system level, you can find resources here to develop and better understand these pieces. There is value in capturing and nurturing all levels of leadership from those at the family level through peer-to-peer and the system.

The Hands & Voices Leadership Book Club

The Hands & Voices Book Club meets several times a year to discuss different books on leadership. Join one or all five! This is open to the public and we invite anyone who is interested in developing their leadership skills to attend! We typically have a guest facilitator and have a lively conversation! Click below to see books and dates we will be meeting this year!

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Hands & Voices LEAD

(Leadership Enhancement And Development) Online Course

Add paragraph description – This course is designed to provide participants with knowledge and resources needed to enhance their development as leaders in the systems serving families with DHH Children. Included in this curriculum are self-study activities covering three different leadership domains; Personal Leadership, Leading Others, and Systems Leadership. Parents, DHH Adults, and Professionals who are interested in enhancing their leadership skills are encouraged to enroll for this free course.

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Leadership Training Webinars

Hands & Voices and the FL3 Center has a library of recorded trainings and webinars that include over 30 different leadership topics such as Effective Facilitation, Providing Feedback that Works, Valuing Yourself as a Parent Leader, and much more. These webinars include diverse presenters including parent leaders sharing their wisdom and expertise on a variety of leadership topics. All webinars include captioning and ASL interpreting.

Recorded Webinars

FL3 Center Office Hours

Office Hours is a place where family leaders and DHH leaders working in the EHDI system providing direct support to families with children who are D/HH gather to share strategies and resources around planned topics facilitated by FL3 staff and invited guests.

Past Office Hours

Hands & Voices Leadership Conference

The Hands & Voices Leadership Conference brings together family leaders from all over the world for skills development, to receive training on providing leadership to others, and to impact local systems. It is the only conference of its kind devoted exclusively to teaching family members with children who are deaf or hard of hearing how to be effective agents of change. The conference rotates locations each fall (typically in September or early October).

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