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

2025

November 19, 2025
7 to 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE
Meeting number: 825 9697 6691
Meeting password: PAG2025
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

September 17, 2025
7 to 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE
Meeting number: 825 9697 6691
Meeting password: PAG2025
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

July 16, 2025
7 to 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE
Meeting number: 825 9697 6691
Meeting password: PAG2025
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

May 21, 2025
7 to 8:30 p.m.

JOIN HERE
Meeting number: 825 9697 6691
Meeting password: PAG2025
Join by phone: 1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

March 19, 2025

January 15, 2025

2024

November 1, 2024 

September 18, 2024

July 17, 2024

May 15, 2024

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

March 13, 2024

January 19, 2024