BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.dsamidlands.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:3f267f36-ec29-43da-9d14-74dcbe4a48f3 X-WR-CALDESC:Audience: Parents and caregivers\, support staff\, and educato rs of children with disabilities and complex health care needs of all ages . \n\nThe Family Care Enhancement Project places Parent Resource Coordinat ors (PRCs) from diverse backgrounds in clinics and at organizations to pro vide information and support to families who have children with disabiliti es and complex health care needs.\n\nPRCs are parents or family members of children with complex health care needs or disabilities. They have specia lized training and share lived experience with the families they support. They act as community health workers\, linking families to the services an d support they need.\n\nOur PRCs help: \n• Connect families to community resources.\n• Empower families to advocate for their child.\n• Navigate across medical\, education\, and community services.\n• Educate and mento r families on their rights.\n• Partner with families and professionals to enhance culturally competent family-centered care.\n\nSarah Swanson\, MPH \, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilit ies at the Munroe-Meyer Institute. She also is the program director for MM I’s Family Care Enhancement Project\, which places Parent Resource Coordin ators in medical clinics across the state. The Family Care Enhancement Pro ject\, funded in part by Nebraska's UCEDD\, is located at UNMC's Munroe-Me yer Institute.\n\nSwanson is the primary investigator over many projects t hat offer services and supports to children with disabilities and special health care needs and their families. She also serves on many state leader ship teams and advisories to improve access and promote activities that be nefit children with disabilities and their families.\n\nKim Falk has worke d at Munroe-Meyer Institute for more than 13 years. She started as a Leade rship Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities trainee and took her personal experience as a parent of a child with a disability to help support other families with additional opportunity and programs at MM I.\n\nFalk previously developed the Respite Employer Engagement initiative through a pilot project\, and from 2015 to 2017 served as the Respite Emp loyer Engagement Coordinator through a contract with the Nebraska Lifespan Respite Network. A replicable model of employer recruitment has been used to share respite resources with employers since 2017. She also partnered with the Center of Children\, Families and the Law\, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison to develop Nebraska’s working caregiver survey. This is an anonymous survey that employers can use to better support working c aregivers on their teams. X-WR-RELCALID:628ab1d70e61399e95b909f214126bfd X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20261101T020000 RDATE:20271107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20270314T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5a67ff92-451b-4fb0-80e2-c40d9a95a581 DTSTAMP:20260622T192910Z DESCRIPTION:Audience: Parents and caregivers\, support staff\, and educator s of children with disabilities and complex health care needs of all ages. \n\nThe Family Care Enhancement Project places Parent Resource Coordinato rs (PRCs) from diverse backgrounds in clinics and at organizations to prov ide information and support to families who have children with disabilitie s and complex health care needs.\n\nPRCs are parents or family members of children with complex health care needs or disabilities. They have special ized training and share lived experience with the families they support. T hey act as community health workers\, linking families to the services and support they need.\n\nOur PRCs help: \n• Connect families to community r esources.\n• Empower families to advocate for their child.\n• Navigate a cross medical\, education\, and community services.\n• Educate and mentor families on their rights.\n• Partner with families and professionals to enhance culturally competent family-centered care.\n\nSarah Swanson\, MPH\ , is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center a nd Nebraska's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabiliti es at the Munroe-Meyer Institute. She also is the program director for MMI ’s Family Care Enhancement Project\, which places Parent Resource Coordina tors in medical clinics across the state. The Family Care Enhancement Proj ect\, funded in part by Nebraska's UCEDD\, is located at UNMC's Munroe-Mey er Institute.\n\nSwanson is the primary investigator over many projects th at offer services and supports to children with disabilities and special h ealth care needs and their families. She also serves on many state leaders hip teams and advisories to improve access and promote activities that ben efit children with disabilities and their families.\n\nKim Falk has worked at Munroe-Meyer Institute for more than 13 years. She started as a Leader ship Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities trainee and took her personal experience as a parent of a child with a disability to h elp support other families with additional opportunity and programs at MMI .\n\nFalk previously developed the Respite Employer Engagement initiative through a pilot project\, and from 2015 to 2017 served as the Respite Empl oyer Engagement Coordinator through a contract with the Nebraska Lifespan Respite Network. A replicable model of employer recruitment has been used to share respite resources with employers since 2017. She also partnered w ith the Center of Children\, Families and the Law\, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison to develop Nebraska’s working caregiver survey. This is an anonymous survey that employers can use to better support working ca regivers on their teams. DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260721T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260721T193000 LOCATION:https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/5NUqnd4ojjrLg1cAFY35Bw SUMMARY:DSES July 2026 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR