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
2023
November 15, 2023
September 20, 2023
July 12, 2023
May 17, 2023
March 22, 2023 - Cancelled
January 25, 2023
2022
December 7, 2022
September 21, 2022
August 2, 2022
July 12, 2022
May 18, 2022
March 23, 2022
March 7, 2022 - Special Meeting
January 27, 2022
2021
October 5, 2021 - Joint Early Learning Advisory Council, Provider Supports Subcommittee, and Parent Advisory Group Meeting
September 21, 2021
July 16, 2021
March 30, 2021 – Joint ELAC Meeting