Policymakers
FII provides more than 100 briefing reports and newsletters written specifically for state policymakers as well as 20 reports for federal policymakers. To bring a family perspective to policymaking, there are several checklists available for assessing how family friendly policies, programs, schools, and communities are. You can listen to presentations from recent Family Impact Seminars, locate current family data, and link to over 100 policy sites.
Since 1976, Federal Family Impact Seminars
Building capacity for family centered policymaking. Read more...
ASPA publishes Researcher–Policymaker Partnerships book
Strategies for launching and sustaining successful collaborations. Read more...
Family-Focused Foster Care seminars conducted throughout US
With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, WI, NC, MA, VA, RI, NC, and LA held Family Impact Seminars on Family-Focused Foster Care Policy.
Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma
Massachusetts focuses FIS on Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma.
Homelessness and Families
Utah focuses FIS on Impacts and Cost Estimates of Homelessness and Families.