This report is designed to help in examining and implementing an evidence-based parenting intervention in improving key protective factors for families with a young child with developmental disabilities.
(56 pp)
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Strengthening Families Curriculum: Protective and Promotive Factors Across Development
This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, emphasizes the cyclical nature Strengthening Families and Youth Thrive. Strong families offer a pathway to children’s well-being, leading to thriving youth, leading to thriving parents, and back again.
(1 p)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Applying a Protective Factors Approach (Case Study)
This worksheet, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, provides case studies that present four different scenarios. It includes spaces to note the application of protective factors in these situations.
(4 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Using Protective Factors as a Lens to Monitor Progress Towards Case Closure
This worksheet, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, allows caseworkers to monitor progress and stay attuned to family changes. The chart can be used to set standards of progress and document growth.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Building Protective Factors During Casework Visits
This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, outlines a toolbox of encouraging and supportive models and approaches to help caseworkers build protective factors among the families they serve.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Using Protective Factors to Develop Case Plan Tasks and Activities
This worksheet, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, offers sample objectives and sample tasks/activities on recognizing and acting upon the protective factors. It includes a blank chart to be filled out.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Using Protective Factors to Identify Relevant Strengths
This worksheet, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, helps identify caregiver strengths. It outlines important strengths and provides a space for a worker to note those strengths and provide feedback.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Child Welfare Practice Skills
This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, helps chart practice skills with regards to six crucial skill sets: engaging, assessing, decision-making/teaming, services and supports planning, intervening, and monitoring and case closure.
(1 p)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Youth Resilience
This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, comes from the Youth Thrive program and discusses the importance of youth resilience and having trusting relationships with caring, encouraging, and competent adults who provide positive guidance and promote high expectations.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families Curriculum: Concrete Support
This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, is from the Youth Thrive program and discusses the importance of assisting youth to identify, find, and receive concrete support. This ensures that they receive necessities everyone needs and deserves.
(2 pp)