This report details six promising programs representative of current work in rural areas and suburban pockets of poverty, both underserved communities. It notes several themes that emerged across the programs.
(44 pp)
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Strengthening Families as a Platform for Collaboration
This brief describes how Strengthening Families can be a powerful tool for bringing together various service providers and systems to better collaborate to improve outcomes for children and families. It includes the “daisy” graphic illustrating how all of the systems that touch the lives of children and families can find common ground in a focus on family protective factors.
(2 pp)
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State Leadership, Policy, and Practice in 2011
2011
This brief shares annual summaries from 24 states demonstrating that the depth and reach of the Strengthening Families approach continued to grow in 2011.
(135 pp)
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Strengthening Families Curriculum: Making Small but Significant Changes
This lesson plan, part of the Strengthening Families Curriculum, is designed to help participants obtain an understanding of the shifts in child welfare practice that can support families in building Protective Factors.
(20 pp)
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Strengthening Families Curriculum: Trauma and Brain Development—A Protective Factors Approach
This lesson plan, part of the Strengthening Families Curriculum, is designed to help participants obtain broader understanding of the impact of trauma on brain development and how its effects can be mitigated through a protective factors approach.
(21 pp)
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Strengthening Families: Implementation in Early Care and Education (ECE)
2016
This brief offers information on how Strengthening Families is used in Early Care and Education, as well as the resources available for implementing Strengthening Families into ECE in various states.
(2 pp)
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Strengthening Families: Implementation in Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
May 2021
This brief offers information on how Strengthening Families is used in child abuse and neglect prevention (CANP), as well as the resources available for implementing Strengthening Families into CANP in various states.
(2 pp)
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Strengthening Families: Teaming
This brief charts the protective factors with an overview of their definitions and examples of how teaming builds each one. It includes information on developmental needs and caregiver decision-making.
(2 pp)
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Strengthening Families: Social-Emotional Competence of Children
This brief discusses the strong link between young children’s social-emotional competence and their cognitive development, language skills, mental health, and school success.
(2 pp)
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Strengthening Families: Social Connections
This brief discusses the importance of constructive and supportive social connections—relationships with family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, community members, and service providers.
(2 pp)