Family-Centered Care Taskforce

The first international, multicenter,
collaborative initiative solely dedicated to
quality improvement in NICU Family-Centered Care.

We exist to support NICUs as they seek to
begin or strengthen FCC in their units.

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    One-Page Summary

  • 2025 Webinar Schedule

  • Phase 3 QI Work

Is your NICU truly delivering
Family-Centered Care?

Register to participate in our NICU FCC Measures Survey pilot to find out! We’ll measure your unit’s performance in seven categories of Family-Centered Care and welcome your feedback as we create the first-ever metrics for providing FCC in the NICU.

What is
Family-Centered Care?

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Family-Centered Care (FCC) ensures that caregivers are active, engaged team members throughout their NICU journey, and is a key factor in improving infant health and family mental health outcomes.

The Family-Centered Care Taskforce addresses challenges that exist in implementing FCC practices through advocacy and quality improvement projects. We are thrilled to have been awarded the Stanford Impact Labs Seed Partnership award alongside NICU Parent Network to continue this important work!

Click below to learn more about our work in FCC advocacy and quality improvement:

About Our Work

Who We Are

The Family-Centered Care Taskforce has over 1,400 members from 48/50 U.S. States & Puerto Rico, 8/10 Canadian Provinces, and 57 countries around the globe! We provide free educational webinars and monthly office hours for NICUs seeking to begin or strengthen FCC in their units.

Our key strength is equal partnership between clinicians and Family Partners in everything we do.

Click below to meet our Core Leadership Team, our diverse Executive Council of Healthcare and Family Partners, and our esteemed Organizational Partners:

Webinars

The Family-Centered Care Taskforce offers free educational webinars on topics related to Family-Integrated Care, Trauma-Informed Care, building a Family Partnership Council, implementing screenings for Social Determinants of Health, and supporting non-birthing parents among many others.

By subscribing, you’ll automatically receive calendar and Zoom invites to all upcoming webinars! Check out our future and past presentations by clicking below:

Resources

  • Job descriptions, program guidelines, toolkits, etc. that we encourage you to modify to meet your unit’s needs

  • Articles and abstracts supporting all things FCC

  • Helpful websites for beginning and strengthening FCC

  • Clips and videos with information on topics like peer support, skin-to-skin care, and preventing burnout

The Family-Centered Care Taskforce provides free resources like our monthly FCC column published in Neonatology Today, our quarterly newsletter, and monthly poll responses to questions from our membership.

Click the button below to access these and more:

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It’s free to join! Here’s what happens when you subscribe:

  • Registration for free educational webinars

  • Opportunities to join free monthly office hours sessions

  • Access to all resources and monthly polls

  • Actionable ways to begin or strengthen FCC in your unit!