Family Finding is a public health project.
Seeing Beyond the Search
Family Seeing is a public health project. We see the family in front of us, instead of searching for one we like better. The time machine of families’ experiences creates the opportunity to heal: past, present, and future. The parents, children, relatives, and community work is healing what hurts and building a good life. The division of labor is never possible when parents, children, relatives, and the community are not at the center of the process from beginning to end.
Health is health. The health of the brain, body, family, child, community, spirit, and land are inseparable. Child safety is one health measure, which cannot be responded to alone if good lifelong health is the goal. This creates space later to look at issues of health in our democracy.
“Our purpose in Family Finding is to restore the opportunity to be unconditionally loved, to be accepted, and to be safe in a community and family.”
- Kevin Campbell
Family Finding acknowledges the critical importance of parents, relatives, and other caring people within the context of culture; agents of change in children’s lives. Government-funded services and programs must support this truth rather than replacing it. Parenting is health: an investment in the well-being of parents, families, and communities is the ultimate investment in lifelong health for all people. Investing in families, not systems alone, is the best use of resources.
Kevin Campbell
Model Author
Kevin Campbell is an American Child Protection, Children's Mental Health, and Health Care Innovator and the Co-founder and CEO of Pale Blue. Pale Blue is a collaboration that seeks to disseminate learning and participatory methods which explore the intersection of Equality, Economics, and the Environment as the foundation for human health, flourishing, and justice. Kevin developed Family FindingTM and Family SeeingTM, a set of strategies now utilized throughout North America, Australia, and Western Europe to convene, catalyze and facilitate families, communities, and governments in their work to respond to the problems which most affect our lives and futures.
Elizabeth Wendel
Model Author
Elizabeth is the president and co-founder of Pale Blue, a collaboration that seeks to disseminate learning and participatory methods at the intersection of Equality, Economics, and the Environment for the foundation of human health, flourishing, and justice. Pale Blue. honors the relational capability for justice and equity for each of us on this pale blue planet we call home.