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
Partnering with child welfare agencies, school systems, and advocacy organizations to integrate lived experience into policies, governance, and decision-making.
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
Equipping professionals and directly impacted leaders to work in authentic partnership and translate lived experience into leadership.
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
Keynotes and panels exploring authority, power, 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).
Valerie Frost 