Services
I lead dynamic public speaking engagements; offer training and coaching; and consult with agencies, organizations, and lived-experience leaders.
“Valerie Frost has moved beyond someone here to courageously tell her story. She is a credible expert focused on a long-neglected area of this industry who brings critical knowledge to learners with a significant level of gravitas.”
— Kevin Campbell, CEO/ Co-founder, Pale Blue. Model Author. Family Finding®️ Family Seeing®️
Consulting
I partner with child welfare agencies, school systems, and advocacy organizations to integrate lived experience into decision-making structures, policies, and practices.
Lived Experience Audits:
Evaluating programs, policies, and practices through the perspective of those most impacted to identify structural barriers, accountability gaps, and opportunities for meaningful change.
Coalition & Campaign Strategy:
Guiding family-centered coalition and campaign efforts that position lived experience as a driver of policy priorities, strategy, and public accountability.
Advisory Council Design & Support:
Designing and supporting parent and family advisory councils structured for real influence, shared authority, and sustained impact — not symbolic participation.
Systems Engagement Strategy:
Developing tailored strategies that help organizations build trust, navigate power dynamics, and create durable partnerships with families and communities grounded in accountability.
Training & Coaching
I offer trainings and coaching designed to equip both professionals and directly impacted leaders to work in authentic partnership and execute change with clarity and shared authority.
Strategic Storytelling:
Workshops that help participants craft clear, authentic narratives that build trust, surface insight, and drive meaningful change.
Engagement Strategy Across Levels:
Training teams to engage families and communities as partners with influence: from program design to implementation and evaluation.
Group Coaching for Parent Leaders:
Supporting directly impacted individuals as they develop leadership capacity, confidence, and strategic approaches to influencing systems.
1:1 Coaching for Leadership & Lived Experience:
Personalized coaching that helps individuals translate lived experience into leadership, credibility, and impact across professional and community settings.
Speaking
I lead dynamic keynotes and panel presentations that challenge assumptions about authority, elevate lived experience as expertise, and invite audiences to rethink power, integrity, and belonging in systems change.
Topics:
Navigating power dynamics, integrity and accountability in systems, advocating with impact, creating belonging through voice and authority, the community engagement continuum, community support as prevention.
Example:
Keynote Speech: Bridges of Impact: Empowering Families Through Authentic Engagement & Lived Experience Leadership for the Montana Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect Conference (April 2025).
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