Improving Educational Freedom for Young Children and Families
Watch this webinar to learn how Head Start programs can use federal funds to support parents in choosing the educational services that best meet their specific needs and values.
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Family Partnerships
Family Partnerships mean that staff and families build ongoing, reciprocal, and respectful relationships. Staff value families’ expertise about their children and support progress toward the goals they have for themselves and their children. Family Partnerships is one of the five Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework program impact areas that affect positive family outcomes.
Family Services Essentials Training Suite
Use this training suite to help family services staff build PFCE skills. It includes four modules with guides and activities for flexible learning.
Module 1: The Foundations of Family Engagement
In this module, you will introduce your team to the basics of family engagement in Head Start programs. You will help them understand the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework and why it is important. This module also explains how their roles fit into the Framework and how they can use it when working with families and communities.
Module 2: Building Relationships and Partnerships with Families
In this module, your team will learn ways to build positive, goal-oriented relationships with families through strengths-based practices. This module also helps you guide your staff to think about their own strengths and areas for growth when working with families.
Module 3: On-the-Job-Roles and Responsibilities
This module explores the key roles and responsibilities of family services staff in Head Start programs. You will help your staff identify common tasks in their daily work and learn about the family partnership process. This module also shows your staff how to use PFCE resources to set goals with families.
Module 4: Community Partnerships and Engagement
This module focuses on how family services staff work with community partners to support children and families in Head Start programs. You will help your team explore why strong community connections matter and learn three key priorities for building partnerships. This module also shows how to use PFCE resources to improve community engagement.
Family and Community Partnerships for School Readiness
Strategies used by a program to make families and communities support children’s school readiness.
Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation: Boosting School Readiness Through Effective Family Engagement Series
What you do and say matters! Explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships with a family.
Measuring Relationship Quality
Explore these comprehensive tools that help programs assess relationships, through an insight at the relationships between families and providers, teachers, and family services staff for children birth to 5 years of age.
Building Partnerships: Guide to Developing Relationships with Families
Explore the role that Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships play in effective parent, family, and community engagement. This guide offers definitions, tools, and guides for reflective practice and supervision.
