When you support Family to Family Support Network (FFSN®), you help create better healthcare experiences and better health outcomes for vulnerable patients and families.
Your support helps ensure that ALL families receive the respectful, neutral, and compassionate care they deserve especially during some of life’s most complex, sensitive, and vulnerable moments. You empower healthcare professionals with the education and practical tools they need to recognize personal bias, reduce stigma, better understand unique patient needs, and approach every patient and family with dignity and compassion.
Through programs such as our Respectful, Equitable Care (REC) Certification, The Vault, and specialized education addressing topics such as perinatal substance use disorder, adoption, trauma, and other often-overlooked areas of care, FFSN is working to close gaps in healthcare education and bring meaningful change directly to the bedside.
Our work starts with healthcare professionals, but the impact reaches much further. Every professional we educate has the opportunity to change the experience of countless patients and families throughout their career.
When you give to FFSN®, you aren't just supporting education. You are helping create a healthcare system where respectful, compassionate care isn't the exception, it is the standard.
Family to Family Support Network is a patient-centered, pro-education, non-profit organization engaged in setting the standard for healthcare professionals, in collaboration with strategic partners, to offer respectful, neutral, compassionate care while serving birthing patients and unique families.
Family to Family Support Network® began as the Family to Family Adoption Support Program at Parker Adventist Hospital in Parker, CO in 2004. It was the first hospital-based adoption support program in the nation. The program evolved over 10 years, expanding from solely training hospital staff to better meet the needs of families during an adoption placement to becoming a community resource. The program began offering education to those considering adoption and post-adoption resources. As the community became aware of the program, organizations that encountered those facing unplanned pregnancy (i.e. OB Offices, schools) began referring women to the program. As such, expectant women were introduced to the program earlier in pregnancy. In most cases, these expectant women were still exploring the options of parenting or adoption. They received assistance with making a parenting or adoption plan and were connected to local community support networks for continued care and resources.
Overtime it became clear that the Family to Family Adoption Support Program was expanding and filling the gaps in supporting the unique needs of people facing unplanned pregnancy before, during, and after delivery, as well as other unique patient populations. To focus on sharing and expanding the care model into other hospitals and communities, the Family to Family Support Network was created as a pro-education, non-profit organization. Ultimately, the care model expanded to other patient populations beyond adoption and surrogacy, such as those struggling with substance use disorder, incarcerated patients, and the LGBTQ+ Community, ensuring all families receive respectful, neutral. compassionate care.
Most recently, FFSN has crafted an offering on their learning platform, the Respectful, Equitable Care Certification. This 8-module virtual series explores not only the unique family patient populations listed above, but also implicit bias, anti-racism, and embracing trauma-informed care within their Unique Families Program®.
Organization name
Family to Family Support Network
other names
FFSN
2015
Tax id (EIN)
47-2778443
Category
Health Care
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
7931 S Broadway #230Headquarters
1522 E Dry Creek PlArapahoe County, CO, US
Jefferson County, CO, US
Douglas County, CO, US
CO, US
Denver, CO, US