Strengthening Families Protective Factors

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Strengthening Families Protective Factors

• Hays Kansas
• Kansas State Coordinators Meeting
• Nancy Keel, MS Ed, P-3 National Trainer
• Executive Director Kansas Parents as Teachers
  Association
• September 11, 2012

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www.strengtheningfamilies.net Judy
Langford Center for the Study of Social
Policy judy.langford_at_cssp.org
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Mobilizing partners, communities and families to
build family strengths, promote optimal
development and reduce child abuse and neglect
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THE STRENGTHENING FAMILIES APPROACH

• Benefits ALL families
• Builds on family strengths, buffers risk, and
  promotes better outcomes
• Can be implemented through small but significant
  changes in everyday actions
• Builds on and can become part of existing
  programs, strategies, systems and community
  opportunities
• Is grounded in research, practice and
  implementation knowledge

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Purpose Reduce child abuse and neglect starting
with children 0-5

• The very highest rates of abuse and neglect occur
  for children under 4. This age group is a third
  of all children entering foster care and who are
  likely to stay the longest.
• The brains primary architecture is developing
  in years 0-5, when family stability, skills and
  knowledge have the greatest impact on
  development.
• Adverse experiences at an early age create
  lifelong risk for multiple problems mitigating
  these traumas early is most effective.

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A FEW BRAVE INNOVATORS

• 2004 first round of States
• Alaska
• Arkansas
• Illinois
• Missouri Parents as Teachers National Center
• New Hampshire
• Rhode Island
• Wisconsin
• 2006
• Kansas joined with other states

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FEDERAL PARTNERS
Administration for Children, Youth and Families
Childrens Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and
Neglect Administration on Children and Families,
Office of Child Care and Office of Head Start
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(ECCS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), local
Project Launch sites Department of Defense, New
Parents Program and Family Advocacy Program
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STRENGTHENING FAMILIES NATIONAL NETWORK
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Parent leaders, state agencies and local programs
quickly adapted the framework --beyond child
abuse prevention for young children --to create a
platform for linkages across service systems and
a way of engaging informal opportunities for
families.
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five protective factors
PARENTAL RESILIENCE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS KNOWLEDGE
of PARENTING and CHILD DEVELOPMENT CONCRETE
SUPPORT in TIMES of NEED SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL
COMPETENCE of CHILDREN
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Small but significant changes
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LEVERS FOR IMPLEMENTING AND SUSTAINING
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES

• Integration into policies and systems
• Professional
• development
• Real parent partnerships

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SERVICES IN PERSPECTIVE
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Parental Resilience Be strong
and and flexible Social Connections
Parents need friends Knowledge of Parenting
Being a great parent is part natural and part
learned Concrete Support We all need help
sometimes Social and emotional
development for children Help your children
communicate and give them the love and
respect they need
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NEW FAMILY VALUES

• Recognition of importance of families
• Diminishing stigma and labeling
• Acknowledging diversity among families
• Reducing the distance between professionals and
  families
• Partnerships among services and between services
  and people are essential
• Everyone has a role and can play it!

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How did this affect our PAT Curriculum

• Foundational Curriculum pp. 41-46
• Foundational PV 2, 7
• Tool Kit Card page 17 18
• PVR Family strengths and protective factors
  discussed check the one discussed and make
  comments relevant to the protective factor(s).
• Group Connection Planner and Record
• Group Connection Feed Back Form

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Protective Factor Survey

• Survey results provide
• A snapshot of the families you serve
• Changes in protective factors
• Areas where parent educators can focus on
  increasing individual family protective factors
• Survey results are not
• Individual assessments
• Used for placement
• Used for diagnostic purposes

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Foundations for School Success Tool Kit

• Who will fill out forms and enter the
  data
• When do you have to do this, changing from
  birthdays to first 90 days of enrollment.
• Possibilities
• 1st visit as an enrollment visit not required
  a suggestion
• then it will be repeated each program years 45
  days
• Where do you enter the data
• How do you enter the data into VT and the
  Foundations for School Success.
• Turn to page 42 read through the
  instructions you will give to parents
• Review the pages on the Protective Factors.

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Questions?
Thanks for Coming
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Coordinator Issues

• Group or Individual Surveys
• Informed Consent
• Method to record scores
• Scoring

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PFS-For Staff Use Only

• Staff completed
• Participants experience/demographics
• s 1-5
• Program Dosage - 6.
• Pre and Post Test
• The Post Test will
• Family Outcomes
• Child Outcomes
• Program Outcomes
• PE effectiveness

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Protective Factor Survey and Manual

• Page 1 Demographic section, filled out by
  participant.
• Page 2 Family Protective Factors Section
• Manual

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• Funding Website Ideas
• www.tgci.com
• Foundationcenter.org, click Early childhood
  Education.
• www.kschildrenscabinet.org/earlychildblock.htm
• www.tgci.com.