Children, Youth and Family Systems

Building Pathways to Stability, Belonging, and Bright Futures

Strengthening Children, Youth and Family Systems Through Person-Centered Change

Helping children, youth, and families build safe, stable, and meaningful futures.

Every child and young person deserves the opportunity to grow, belong, and pursue a future filled with hope and possibility. Families deserve partners who recognize their strengths, honor their voices, and work alongside them to create lasting stability and well-being. Strong relationships, meaningful opportunities, and coordinated supports help children and families build brighter futures together.

Organizations across children, youth, and family systems are strengthening prevention, supporting families, promoting permanency, and helping young people successfully transition into adulthood. We partner with organizations and professionals to strengthen person- and family-centered practices through the nationally recognized Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC) framework while helping align existing priorities and create lasting change.

Rather than introducing another child- or family-serving initiative, the Charting the LifeCourse® (CtLC) framework enhances the work organizations are already doing. By integrating person- and family-centered approaches into prevention, family support, permanency, transition planning, and cross-system collaboration, CtLC helps organizations build on the strengths of children, youth, and families while creating more coordinated supports and meaningful outcomes.

How CtLC Strengthens Children, Youth & Family Systems

Who We Work With

  • Child and Family Service Agencies
  • Foster Care and Kinship Care Organizations
  • Family Preservation Programs
  • Adoption and Permanency Programs
  • Children’s Behavioral Health Providers
  • Early Childhood & Education Partners
  • Family Organizations and Parent Partners
  • Youth with Lived Experience
  • Court & Community Partners
  • Cross-System Leadership Teams

What Becomes Possible

  • Children and youth experience safety, belonging, stability, and hope.
  • Families become trusted partners whose strengths and voices guide planning and decision-making.
  • Young people build the confidence, skills, and support networks needed for successful transitions into adulthood.
  • Relationships and natural supports are strengthened to promote lifelong connection and belonging.
  • Organizations work together to provide coordinated, family-centered experiences.
  • Communities create greater opportunities for children, youth, and families to thrive.

Our Approach

We help organizations integrate the Charting the LifeCourse® framework into existing roles, programs, services, and systems by strengthening capacity at four levels. Creating lasting change by strengthening people, professionals, organizations, and systems.

Children, Youth and Families

Using practical LifeCourse tools to build self-advocacy, planning skills, informed decision-making, family engagement, and successful life transitions.

Professionals

Strengthening person- and family-centered practice through professional learning, leadership development, coaching, and Communities of Practice.

Organizations

Building implementation capacity through strategic planning, organizational development, and sustainable family-centered practices.

Systems

Advancing collaboration across child and family services, education, behavioral health, healthcare, developmental disabilities, housing, justice, and community partners.

Why Organizations Frequently Partner with Us

Meaningful systems change begins with people.

Grounded in the Charting the LifeCourse framework, we help organizations strengthen leadership, align practice, build workforce capacity, and foster collaboration that improves experiences and outcomes for children, youth, families, professionals, and communities

  • Strengthen family engagement
  • Improve transition planning
  • Build youth self-advocacy and planning skills
  • Support permanency and lifelong relationships
  • Strengthen prevention and family preservation efforts
  • Build workforce capacity
  • Facilitate strategic planning
  • Improve cross-system collaboration

Let's Start the Conversation

Imagine communities where every child grows up surrounded by caring relationships, every family is recognized for its strengths, and every young person has the opportunity to build a future filled with hope and possibility. Let’s work together to make that vision possible.