This handout, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, is for caseworkers discussing the importance of how parents deal with stressors and manage stress through adversity—both personally and with relation to their child.
(2 pp)
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Fast Facts: Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC)
This brief profiles CCMC's origin, goals, key strategies, measures of progress, structure and leadership, parental involvement, and financing.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: Georgia
May 2017
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Georgia as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Ripples of Transformation: Families Leading Change in Early Childhood Systems
This report is a toolkit designed to inspire, challenge, and support leaders in early childhood to embrace a vision of families as agents of change in their children’s lives, communities, and early childhood systems.
(23 pp)
Advancing Equity-Driven Family Engagement for Systems Change in Early Childhood
2016
This brief explores how early childhood leaders can advance efforts to engage families along a continuum—from first teacher to policy advocate for systems change in early childhood.
(4 pp)
Fast Facts: First 5—LA County
This brief provides a profile for LA County’s First 5 initiative. Its intent being to ensure all children in LA County enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and life.
(2 pp)
Fast Facts: First 5—Alameda County
This brief provides a profile for the Alameda County First 5 initiative. Its intent being to build on existing infrastructures of providers by enhancing or expanding their services and supports.
(2 pp)
RTA Outcomes and Metrics Grant: Final Report
This brief offers a project summary for the Outcomes and Metrics Learning Lab. It outlines objectives, research methods, products, implications for other early childhood systems, and next steps.
(4 pp)
Quality Improvement Center: Cross-site Evaluation Final Report
May 2014
This report provides findings and offers a perspective on future knowledge development, dissemination, and integration related to using a protective factors framework for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
(88 pp)
Federal Spending on Prenatal to Three
March 2018
This policy paper discusses how the biggest opportunities to improve children’s health and development are through cultivating safety, stability, and nurturing in homes while expanding resources and opportunities in poor neighborhoods.
(65 pp)