Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Fundamentals
Review the key systems that provide the foundation for family and community engagement and support well-organized systems within programs.
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Relationship-based Practices
Relationship-based practices promote engagement with all families. When Head Start staff engage with a family, they form a relationship on behalf of the child. These practices are intended to guide what staff say and do with families to support open communication and promote better understanding.
Explore these resources to learn more about relationship-based practices and how to implement them in your work with families.
Bringing Strengths-based Attitudes
Your attitudes toward families affect your behaviors with them. Learn how strengths-based attitudes can improve relationships and outcomes as you work with families around sensitive economic mobility issues.
Implementing Effective Mental Health Consultation Toolkit
This toolkit helps Head Start administrators develop and implement a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and mental health consultation.
Developing a Mental Health Vision
Review this chapter to learn how administrators can work with families, staff, and community providers to create a program-wide vision of mental health services
Overview of the Coaching Approach for Family Services Professionals
This section explains what the Coaching Approach is, why it matters, and how the coaching cycle helps staff strengthen their practice.
Implementing the Coaching Approach for Family Services Professionals
This section explains the four stages of implementation and what programs do at each stage to plan, start, and improve the Coaching Approach.
Coaching Approach for Family Services Professionals Toolkit
This section offers tools to support each step of the Coaching Approach.
A Leader’s Guide to the Coaching Approach for Family Services Professionals
This guide helps family services supervisors plan and implement the Coaching Approach to strengthen staff skills and practice. Includes tools.
Attitudes and Practices Summary
Explore the strengths-based attitudes and relationship-based practices that can help you develop and sustain Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships with families. You can use these strategies to strengthen your partnerships and help build the basis for effective family engagement. Meaningful partnerships and sustained family engagement lead to better outcomes for children and families.
Building Trust with Your Programs
This activity shows how child care health consultants can provide meaningful discussions around health and safety, and strengthen partnerships.
