This PowerPoint, part of the Strengthening Families curriculum, is a detailed lesson plan designed to help participants become knowledgeable about the four big ideas behind Strengthening Families.
(12 pp)
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Early Childhood Program Accountability: Cross Walks Between Strengthening Families, Head Start Performance Standards, and NAEYC Accreditation Standards
October 2014
This PowerPoint discusses the intersections between Strengthening Families, Head Start, and NAEYC. It examines how these alignments help programs meet federally mandated performance standards.
(14 pp)
Working Toward Well-Being: Community Approaches to Toxic Stress
July 2016
This PowerPoint works towards shifting the conversation about toxic stress. It addresses its root causes, growth toward understanding, as well as community-level strategies. It also discusses toxic stress in cities.
(51 pp)
Building Parent Partnerships to Strengthen Families
September 2014
This PowerPoint focuses on one of the four "Big Ideas" behind Strengthening Families: how to encourage parent involvement and work towards "a changed relationship with parents."
(11 pp)
Building Capacity of Professionals to Strengthen Families
September 2014
This PowerPoint outlines core content for training: about Strengthening Families, protective factors and everyday actions, tools to support implementation, opportunities to apply new knowledge and perspective, and links to additional resources.
(13 pp)
Youth Thrive: A Framework to Help Adolescents Overcome Trauma and Thrive
2015
This brief describes Youth Thrive's protective and promotive factors framework and examines how a focus on thriving is necessary to complement the field’s growing move to become trauma-informed.
(20 pp)
Youth Thrive: Advancing Healthy Adolescent Development and Well-Being
September 2014
This report provides a synthesis of the ideas and research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences that inform the Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework.
(52 pp)
Build Your Learning Community
The building blocks in this visualized action guide show commons elements that are present in all Early Learning Communities, that can be assembled in different ways.
Metrics for Early Childhood Systems: A National Scan
September 2018
This report, co-produced by National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) and CSSP, provides the results of a national scan of measures being used by early childhood systems and initiatives to gauge the well-being of young children and their families.
(52 pp)
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Strengthening Families Webinar: Strengthening Families and Continuous Quality Improvement
September 2018
This webinar featured a presentation from Mosaic Network about how tools and resources related to Strengthening Families can help programs engage in continuous quality improvement (CQI) for their family engagement efforts.