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.
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.
Relationship-based Competencies to Support Family Engagement
In this series, learn more about the core knowledge and competencies early childhood professionals need. Find out how these skills are key to engaging families effectively in positive, goal-oriented relationships.
Credible Media for Young Children
Examples of digital tools for parents and older toddlers and preschoolers to use for distance learning.
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.
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.
Family and Community Partnerships for School Readiness
Strategies used by a program to make families and communities support children’s school readiness.
1302.82 Family partnership services for enrolled pregnant women.
This standard requires programs to engage pregnant women and other relevant family members with a specific focus on factors that influence prenatal and postpartum maternal and infant health.
1302.52 Family partnership services.
Review the requirements for developing a family partnerships process that identifies family strengths and needs and features an approach that individualizes services.
Program Environments: Responsive Programming for Migrant Families
Watch this video for promising practices from a Head Start program for migrant families in San Luis Obispo, CA. Learn ways to foster strong relationships and partnerships between families and staff.