About
The mission of The Full Frame Initiative, Inc. (FFI) is to increase the likelihood that people and communities who are currently failed by social service systems have a chance to participate in interventions that work. We do this by working in networks at the intersection of practice, policy and research to effect and support systems change.
Our work has at its core the conviction that everyone needs safety, stability, mastery (choice and control), social connections, and meaningful access to relevant mainstream resources, and that continued struggles to meet personal and community needs in these Five Domains feed cycles of poverty, violence and trauma.
We draw our lessons and wisdom from a national network of highly effective community-based programs and interventions, and a cohort of strategic allies from a range of fields. We have identified a set of principles and practices shared by many highly effective interventions. We call these the Full Frame Approach, and their practice creates positive change in the Five Domains.
The Full Frame Initiative, Inc. is an independent 501(c)3 charity. We are a dynamic organization with seasoned, entrepreneurial leadership, an engaged Board of Directors, and an invested National Advisory Council.
FFI periodically hosts webinars to introduce people to our work and to hear experiences and perspectives from the field about the Full Frame Approach and Five Domains framework. Check News for upcoming dates.
Our Name
Full frame is a term from documentary film making. To truly show a character, a film cannot just focus on the individual; rather, 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 character. Full Frame Interventions go beyond being holistic, to work with environment and people—and to support change in both.
