https://www.familyseeing.org/core-concepts daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/contact daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/testimonials daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/library daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/what-is-family-seeing daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/about daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539415620-MUEWMDWLZTP4W43M7AXR/shutterstock_1067669795.jpg About - “Our purpose in Family Seeing® is to restore the opportunity to be unconditionally loved, to be accepted, and to be safe in a community and family.” — Kevin Campbell, Co-Founder of Pale Blue. Family Seeing® acknowledges the critical importance of parents, relatives, and other caring people within cultural contexts as 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539415628-ISWU01VJGS4ABI834TBV/Kevin.jpg About - Kevin Campbell Model Author Family Finding® and Family Seeing®, Co-Founder Pale Blue Dot Inc. Kevin Campbell is the co-founder and CEO of Pale Blue Dot Inc. and the creator of Family Finding® and Family Seeing® — relational practice models now used across North America, Australia, and Western Europe to help families, communities, and governments restore belonging for children who have lost it. An American child protection, children's mental health, and health care innovator, Kevin has spent his career pursuing a single conviction: that every child has a family, and that they can be found if we try. Kevin's work has changed law. Family Finding® has been written into United States federal legislation three times — the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (2008, signed by President Bush), the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (2011, signed by President Obama), and the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (2014). It has reshaped family-engagement practice for millions of families across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Cambodia, and it remains one of the most legislatively recognized relational practice models in U.S. child welfare history. He has also brought Family Finding® to some of the hardest places a family can be torn apart. In 2018, Kevin served as an expert in a successful United States Federal District Court case on behalf of parents and children forcibly separated at the U.S. border under the "zero tolerance" immigration policy — an effort that helped win relief for separated families. In 2020, with Pale Blue. and the Kempe Center at the University of Denver, he co-created the Truth Telling in Child Welfare collaborative, now spreading across the United States, which gathers the testimony and post-traumatic wisdom of young people, parents, relatives, and Tribes about the harms of family separation and policing used as a proxy for child safety. Increasingly, Kevin's work reaches beyond child welfare into health itself. As a senior advisor to major American health plans, he is helping to redefine whole-person, whole-family, and whole-community health as something people build together — not something we receive at a doctor's office, a therapist's office, or a pharmacy. The ultimate upstream approach to protecting the safety of children, he argues, is promoting the well-being of parents and families — not as recipients of government programs, but as people with the authority, resources, and freedom to be the actors and authors of their own lives. Kevin's work has been featured twice on CBS 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl, and in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, TIME, and dozens of other national and international publications. He has published widely on the need for radical reform of child protection, children's mental health, and juvenile justice systems, and on equitable, high-quality health and mental health care. He continues to speak on the issues of youth and families around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539415637-4JR6KIT2GWR3A8XGCP7A/Liz-2021.jpg About - Elizabeth Wendel Model Author Family Seeing®, Co-Founder of Pale Blue Dot Inc. Elizabeth Wendel is the president and co-founder of Pale Blue Dot Inc. and, with Kevin Campbell, the co-author of Family Seeing®. A leading expert and trainer in Family Finding®, she has built much of the practice, playbooks, and learning that let others do this work — and she does it, still, side by side with young people, parents, and families. Pale Blue. honors the relational capability for justice and equity for each of us on this pale blue planet we call home, and Elizabeth's career is a practice of that conviction. She began in Philadelphia, where she established and led the city's Family Finding® program — one of the largest in the United States — and, over time, helped more than 10,000 young people forge over 26,000 supportive kinship and relational connections. Since then she has trained many thousands of practitioners, supervisors, and system leaders across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Australia through bootcamps, train-the-trainer institutes, and multi-year implementations. Her direct practice has reconnected families across the United States, Australia, Romania, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. Elizabeth is a sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator on relational practice, belonging, and the science of connection, and a prolific author of practice playbooks, handbooks, and tools. She co-authored Family Seeing® and created Pale Blue.'s Relational Warmth framework — an approach that makes the felt quality of a relationship visible, sayable, and improvable rather than simply counting who is present in a child's life. She also developed tools to address "model fatigue" in large-group learning, and she serves on the editorial board of the Family Justice Journal. She advises at the highest levels of policy and practice. Elizabeth is a senior advisor to two of the largest healthcare companies in the United States and partners with governments and private organizations across Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States on strategic design, policy framing, and practice-model development. Beginning in 2020, with Pale Blue. and the Kempe Center at the University of Denver, she co-founded the Truth Telling in Child Welfare collaborative, which gathers the testimony and post-traumatic wisdom of young people, parents, relatives, and Tribes about the harms of family separation. Elizabeth holds a Master's in Social Work from Temple University, is a certified trauma-informed care expert, and is a recipient of the Rising Leader Scholarship from the Alliance for Children and Families. Earlier roles — in Philadelphia's only Family Finding® program, with teen parents (where she designed a family-networking model), and as a hospice end-of-life grief counselor — shaped her conviction that our relationships and social environment sit at the center of human health. A published author, she continues to write on early relational health, economic justice, and human wellbeing. https://www.familyseeing.org/resources daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/services daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/home daily 1.0 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing daily 0.75 2026-09-04 https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing/drbruceperry-jdmr9-44z2x monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539413920-GR5T1247E6H52VESIBRP/DrBrucePerry.jpg Conversations on Seeing - Dr. Bruce Perry - Dr. Bruce Perry Dr. Perry is the Principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and a Professor (Adjunct) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician, and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions. His work on the impact of abuse, neglect, and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs, and policy across the world. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children, and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Dr. Perry's most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, was released in 2021. https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing/drgregorypsmith-k489w-xzxxr monthly 0.5 2021-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539413974-UZJS34INGSHBYO760572/Screenshot_20210724-133718_Gallery.jpg Conversations on Seeing - Dr. Gregory P. Smith - Dr. Gregory Peele Smith Completely disillusioned with society, Gregory P. Smith walked into a rainforest and became a hermit for many years. He exited the forest, on the brink of death and still haunted by personal demons, to eventually gain a Ph.D., become a university lecturer in the Faculty of Business, Law, and Arts, and an ambassador for Australia’s ‘Forgotten children’. This incredible story is a personal testament to ‘never giving up’. Dr. Gregory P. Smith is a survivor, an academic, and a social researcher. In 2018 he published his memoir ‘Out of the Forest’ with Penguin Random House and has been the subject of two Australian documentaries. His profoundly touching and uplifting memoir is at once a unique insight into how far off track a life can go and a powerful reminder that we can all find our way back. Gregory is heavily involved in advocating for the vulnerable and disadvantaged and continues to be the patron of a number of charity organisations while also consulting with several specialist services and agencies. Connect with Dr. Gregory Smith’s YouTube channel here. https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing/robdonovan-wedfd-46gpk monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539414083-TFFP1RUS2V5R4O5N8WGM/Rob+Donovan.JPG Conversations on Seeing - Rob Donovan - Rob Donovan Rob Donovan (Ph.D. Psychology) is the Founder of the Act-Belong-Commit Campaign and Adjunct Professor in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He was formerly a Professor of Behavioural Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. After a career in commercial marketing, he returned to academia in the early 1990s. He has conducted research and program development across a broad range of areas, including alcohol, tobacco and drugs, physical activity and the built environment, child abuse, domestic violence, racism, doping in sport, suicide prevention, and mental health. He currently chairs the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Social Sciences Research Expert Advisory Group. He has an international reputation in social marketing and health promotion and has (co-)authored over 250 journal articles, books, and book chapters across marketing, psychology, and public health, and a similar number of technical reports for government and non-government organizations across a variety of health and social policy areas. Some publications of Rob’s work can be found here: Implementing mental health promotion: the act–belong–commit mentally healthy WA campaign in Western Australia. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 2006 Act-Belong-Commit: Lifestyle Medicine for Keeping Mentally Healthy. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2016 May-Jun; 10(3): 193–199 Act-Belong-Commit Indicators Promote Mental Health and Wellbeing among Irish Older Adults, November 2018 American Journal of Health Behavior 42(6):31-45 https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing/angela-quijada-banks-nkbpk-e26th monthly 0.5 2021-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539413840-91I550U1YAH8EHM2K35S/Angela+Quijada+Banks.jpg Conversations on Seeing - Ángela Quijada-Banks - Ángela Quijada-Banks Ángela Quijada-Banks is a Holistic wellness coach for purpose-driven high-performance professional and entrepreneurial-spirited women. She is an NAACP Image Award Nominated, American author of the best-selling book, The Black Foster Youth Handbook, Founder of Soulful Liberation which started as a podcast to support young people with trauma navigate their healing journey during the pandemic and has expanded into a movement where she aims to empower others to channel their hurt through various art forms including book publishing! As a transformational speaker and artist, she has impacted thousands with her message to alchemize your pain to purpose and power. Ángela is a scholar at Legacy Holistic Health Institute studying Holistic Health and healing through medicinal herbs. Through her everyday work with helping young people uncover their divine purpose, performing spoken word events, facilitating workshops, and political advisory to legislators across the nation, she aims to aid in a revolutionary change in the areas of holistic health, economic injustices, child welfare disparities, cultural awareness and identity within low-wealth communities of color both on a micro and macro level. Born in Anaheim, CA her reach has spanned across the nation and in several countries. And for her, this is only the beginning of her movement to promote generational soulful liberation of self and community. Between her day-to-day adventures, Ángela enjoys traveling the world, exploring various passions such as dancing, singing, martial arts, and adrenaline rushes at amusement parks with her husband, Michael. She is lovingly called a “graceful powerhouse” by all who know her, as she lives by the quote, “ If not me, then who? If not now, then when?” https://www.familyseeing.org/conversations-on-seeing/fathergregboyle-aajtw-96278 monthly 0.5 2021-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a9af20cb27e0e4a8a9b93f3/1788539414034-CTRRNPXCQJGOEQ31WWR7/Greg+Boyle.jpg Conversations on Seeing - Father Greg Boyle - Father Greg Boyle Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.Born and raised in Los Angeles and Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights. Dolores Mission was the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. Father Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, he and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings. Father Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. His second book, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, was published in 2017. And his new and third book is The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness that will be out this Fall 2021. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. In 2020, he served as a committee member of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Economic and Job Recovery Task Force as a response to the COVID-19 crisis. In the same year, Homeboy Industries was the recipient of the 2020 Hilton Humanitarian Prize validating 32 years of Fr. Greg’s vision and work by the organization for over three decades.