The L.I.F.E. perspective (Leadership, Interdisciplinary, Family-Centered, Equity) is intertwined within all aspects of the MI-LEND trainee experience. Key L.I.F.E. questions and topics are listed for consideration below.

Leadership

• What leadership strengths/styles can I bring to this situation?

• What strategies can I use to facilitate creativity, innovation, collaboration, and leadership?

• How can I better facilitate learning between the classroom and the workplace?

• How can I address identified gaps in the service system?

• What tools can be used to avoid or resolve conflicts?

Interdisciplinary

• What is my role in identification, assessment, and treatment?

• What does each discipline bring to the care of a child and family?

• How do disciplines interact as a team?

• How can I more effectively communicate with other professionals on my team?

• How can we demonstrate respect for other's knowledge and approach to a problem?

Family-Professional Partnership

• Who are the members of the family?

• What are their current roles?

• How can family strengths be built upon to better support the child with a disability?

• How does the family want to engage with professionals?

• How can community resources be used to supplement family resources to better support the child?

• How can the clinician work as a team with other providers and the family, even across geographic distance?

Equity

• Who is accessing/benefiting from our programs? Who is not?

• Who is at risk for disparate outcomes in the health system?

• What are the barriers, differential impacts? What can we do to change that?

• Why are some people at greater risk? How can we reach and engage them?

• How are our actions relevant to specific populations?

• How can we improve our surveillance system and build the ones that collect the data we need?