The Full Frame Initiative

...STAY TUNED--OUR NEW WEBSITE AND ONLINE COMMUNITY WILL BE UP SOON...   The Full Frame Initiative envisions a country where people and communities have the tools, support, resources, and services they need to thrive.
The Full Frame Approach: A Powerful New Tool to Help Our Most Marginalized and Vulnerable Neighbors The Full Frame Approach is a practice-based, evidence-rich approach for helping marginalized individuals, families and communities garner the tools, support, resources and services they need to thrive.[1] To download an overview of the Full Frame Approach, click here:   Full Frame Approach 2.0 Overview	a  full frame / ful freIm / n. 1. the community, culture, and context that should be the centerpiece of any effort to help marginalized people and communities increase their health, stability, and community cohesion a a a a a    why full frame? Full frame is a term from documentary film making. To truly show a character, a film cannot just focus on that person.  Instead, the filmmaker must pull the lens all the way back, filling the frame with the environment, the context, the relationships, the serendipity, the events and the interactions that define and are defined by the protagonist. Full frame means something slightly different to photographers: an uncropped picture, with nothing edited out.  This demands more careful attention to composition from the start. What does full frame mean to you?  Tell us, at info@fullframeinitiative.org!
The Full Frame Initiative: The Full Frame Initiative is a campaign launched specifically to ensure that over the next decade, thousands of the most marginalized people across the country have access to programs that practice the Full Frame Approach.  The Initiative’s national strategy has five elements: Build strategic alliances for learning and influence: Identify programs whose work resonates with the Full Frame Approach (what we call Full Frame Programs) around the country and connect them with each other, policy makers, researchers, thought and practice leaders, and those positioned to influence public discourse. Learn and disseminate: Continuously deepen and refine our understanding of the Full Frame Approach and pool data on impact and effectiveness; disseminate our learning through a range of channels. Build visibility and marshal support: Acting through our own channels and through network programs and partners, bring national attention, legitimacy and resources to the Full Frame Approach and its practice in Full Frame Programs. Inform and transform public discussions: Demonstrate that positive, sustained change is possible using an approach that is far more humane than the status quo.  Increase the number and availability of Full Frame Programs for those who need them most, by reducing barriers to programs' moving from start-up to sustainable: Through the combined efforts of successful, sustainable network programs and strategic allies, and work located within the Initiative itself, work at a policy and systems level to reduce or eliminate the barriers nascent Full Frame Programs face in moving from start-up to sustainable.  Create tools and provide support for communities seeking to implement new Full Frame Programs.     [1] The principles and practices of the Full Frame Approach are described in: Smyth, K. F., Goodman, L., and Glenn, C. (2006). The Full-Frame Approach: A new response to marginalized women left behind by specialized services. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 76(4) 489-502.
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