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About Us
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OVERVIEW
The National Family Support Network (NFSN) advances a future where families flourish. Founded in 2011, NFSN convenes state and regional networks nationwide and supports a field of more than 3,000 Family Resource Centers (FRCs). We advance quality, learning, and impact across communities nationwide. Through its Membership Network, Training Academy, and Evidence & Impact Institute, we strengthen and elevate Family Resource Centers and the state and regional networks that support them through connection, capacity-building, and evidence-informed practice.
Today, NFSN’s work is focused intentionally on Family Resource Centers and FRC Networks as essential infrastructure for child and family well-being. These trusted, community-rooted places of support are part of a broader field, and NFSN exists to ensure that the ecosystem around them is positioned for lasting impact.
We advance the field by:
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Connecting state and regional networks into a unified national movement
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Accelerating proven approaches that center and strengthen families through training and professional development
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Leading research, shared learning, rigorous evidence-based evaluation
Family Resource Centers are not isolated programs. They are part of a broader ecosystem of practice, partnership, and possibility. NFSN creates that ecosystem by linking leaders and practitioners across states, expanding the field’s capacity to grow and improve, and deepening the evidence and shared understanding that move the work forward.
By strengthening connections across states, advancing quality, and equipping the field with the tools and knowledge it needs, NFSN helps translate local, community-rooted work into coordinated national impact. When Family Resource Centers are connected, equipped, and elevated as a field, more families, in more communities, can flourish.
MISSION
The National Family Support Network elevates Family Resource Centers through connection and capacity-building.
VISION
Every family has access to high-quality, community-rooted support.
PILLARS OF CHANGE
NFSN advances the Family Resource Center field through three connected pillars:
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The Family Resource Center Membership Network
When we are connected, we thrive.
We are a growing national network committed to advancing this work together. By organizing people across organizations and communities, the network creates a space where practitioners can share insight, strengthen one another’s efforts, and be reminded that each member thrives as part of something larger than themselves, and no one is doing this work alone.
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The Family Support Training Academy
Through training, we accelerate success and deepen impact.
The Academy transforms and equips our movement with proven approaches that center and strengthen families. Through collaborative learning and sharing best practices from the field, the Academy illuminates pathways to accelerate success and deepen impact across organizations, communities, and systems.
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The Family Resource Center Evidence & Impact Institute
With research, we build trust, drive policy, and transform systems.
Through research, shared learning, and rigorous evidence-based evaluation, the Institute deepens our understanding of what helps families thrive and redefines how families are supported. By translating knowledge into frameworks, tools, and practices, the Institute builds trust, drives policy, transforms systems, and sets the course for FRCs and the future of the field.
