Parent Advisory Group

At the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), we believe parents are their children’s first and most important teachers. The DCYF Parent Advisory Group (PAG) is a sounding board for decisions, ideas and questions that shape the future of DCYF. Parental involvement in decision-making is the key to having policies and programs that support families’ strengths and needs.  The PAG is made up of parents and family caregivers of children, from prenatal through 17 years old. The PAG will meet by phone and in person.

PAG members will represent the unique experiences and perspectives of their families, including but not limited to:

  • Rural, remote, urban and military communities
  • Access a variety of early learning services for their children or not currently connected to services
  • Have diverse family structures (for example, headed by both or single parents, grandparents, kinship care, foster parents, or are blended families)
  • Experience with immigration and being new to a community
  • Impacted by incarceration
  • Cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity
  • Have children with varying developmental and special needs

Meetings

2024

November 13, 2024 
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE

Meeting number (access code): 830 6221 6554
Meeting password: PAG2024
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US Toll
Passcode: 2223505

September 18, 2024
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE

Meeting number (access code): 830 6221 6554
Meeting password: PAG2024
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US Toll
Passcode: 2223505

July 17, 2024
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

May 15, 2024

April 9, 2024 - Special Meeting: Family Voluntary Services (FVS) 

March 13, 2024

January 19, 2024

2023

November 17, 2023

September 20, 2023

August 11, 2023

July 12, 2023

May 17, 2023

March 22, 2023 - Cancelled

January 25, 2023