Learning Course About the Family Services Role
Explore this four-module course on Early Education Pathways (EEP) to enhance your knowledge base, clarify expectations, and provide strategies to perform family services effectively.
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Family Engagement
Family engagement is a collaborative and strengths-based process through which early childhood professionals, families, and children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. It is a shared responsibility of families and staff at all levels that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer. Family engagement focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive relationship-building with key family members in a child’s life. These people include pregnant women and expectant families, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and other adult caregivers. It requires making a commitment to creating and sustaining an ongoing partnership that supports family well-being. It also honors and supports the parent-child relationships that are central to a child’s healthy development, school readiness, and well-being. The Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework is a guide to learning how family engagement promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities.
Building Partnerships with Families Course
Take this learning course on Early Education Pathways (EEP) to improve your knowledge and practices about building strong, strengths-based partnerships with families.
Measuring What Matters Learning Series
Explore this nine-module course to learn more about using data to enhance your work with children and families using the Measuring What Matters resources.
Family Services Managers’ Seasonal Program Planning Tool
Family services managers can use this tool as a road map to plan and organize family services tasks and activities throughout the program year.
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.
The Family Services Manager’s Role in Program Systems
Explore the family services manager’s role in two Head Start systems: the PFCE Framework and the Management Systems Wheel.
The Family Services Manager’s Role in Supporting Staff Working with Families
Explore how the family services manager helps programs provide the comprehensive services that can contribute to positive outcomes for the children and families in your program.
Planning and Managing Family Services Throughout the Year
Family service managers can make use of these fillable seasonal planning worksheets to meet the needs of their program and staff and track work efficiently.
Planting the Seeds for Professional Success
These supplemental materials to support the professional growth of the family services manager and their team.
Glossary of Common Acronyms
This glossary provides family services professionals with definitions of the most common acronyms used in the field. It is not an official Head Start glossary.
