Building Positive Relationships
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Description: Learn more about National Family Week by visiting this Web site. It has information about events and other ways to get involved. National Family Week takes place in November during the week of Thanksgiving.
– General Information –
Description: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension website contains information for new parents including information on feeding, playing games, what to expect, and typical development, birth through 12 months.
Black/White/Other: Helping Multiracial Kids Find Their Way
Author: Azab Powell, Bonnie
Description: This article discusses the emotional needs of children who come from multicultural and multuralracial families. Suggestions of resources is included.
Building Block 2: First Thoughts on Getting Fathers Involved in Head Start
Description: Building Block 2 explores some of the important foundational questions that need to be asked and steps that need to be taken in planning for the development of an effective father involvement program.
Climbing the Ladder of Reading Proficiency: Atlanta Civic Site
Description: This report tells how a group of parents, educators, community-based service providers, funders, and education experts created the Dunbar Learning Complex with the goal of permanently changing the path of children living in poverty. This unique educational model was
launched in January 2010. Since then, 374 children, ages six weeks to PreK, have enrolled at the ELLRC and 385 are currently enrolled at Dunbar Elementary School, an Atlanta public school serving children from kindergarten through fifth grade. The report shares the impact of those efforts on children and their parents, two years later.
Description: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension article that address how adults can handle children's temper tantrums.
Developing your Child’s Self-Esteem
Description: This website provides information related to children's health. This page provides information on how children develop self-esteem. It will define self-esteem, provides information on identifying healthy and unhealthy self-esteem, and provide suggestions for what parents can do to support their children.
Also available in Spanish.
Family Time Work Time: Some Tips for Parents of Young Children 
Author: Mincemoyer, Claudia (7 more by this author)
Description: This newsletter for parents discusses tips for supporting your young child's social and emotional skills, why schedules are important, and what to look for when choosing child care. Also available in Spanish at http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/FTWTEsp/10OctESPftwt.pdf.
Father/ Male Involvement in Early Childhood Programs
Author: McBride, Brent; Rane, Thomas R.
Description: This article discusses how to get fathers/ males involved in early childhood settings. A major challenge for family support professionals working in early childhood settings is to restructure program policies and practices aimed at increasing parent involvement to reflect the new realities of family structure, lifestyle, and ethnic characteristics.
First Signs: Sharing Concerns Parent to Parent
Description: This fact sheet offers useful guidelines for friends, relatives and caregivers who wish to share a concern about a child's development with the child's parent.
Author: Whiting, Gwen
Description: This article is discusses how to work with and help parents who are grieving. It clearly explains all the states a person goes through as they deal with lost. The stages are explained and suggestions on how you can provide support are included.
The concept of ENUF is explained in terms of how to help people in crisis.
ENUF
Empathy
Non-judgment
Unconditionality
Feeling-focus
Home Visiting Community Planning Tool
Author: Schreiber, Lisa; Jamie Colvard; Barbara Gebhard
Description: The ZERO TO THREE tool guides communities through the process of creating new or expanding existing home visiting services that meet their unique needs. It helps communities use data to identify their strengths, needs, and gaps in current home visiting services; choose an evidence-based program model; and align work at the local level with state efforts. Though this tool is relevant to any situation in which home visiting services are being explored, it is especially useful for communities receiving funding through the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.
How can we strengthen families through early care and education?
Author: Roach, Mary; Edie, David; Riley, Dave; Adams, Diane
Description: This brief discusses how we can strengthen families through early care and education. It looks at which family centered practices are most often used by centers. It shows that high quality programs offer more family centered services and that additional funding specifically targeted towards family connections can make a difference in this area.
Author: Raikes, Helen; Beth L. Green; Jane Atwater; Ellen Kisker; Jill Constantine; Rachel Chazan-Cohen
Description: The study demonstrates the powerful role of demographic and other characteristics as predictors of parent involvement in services and program outcomes. Family characteristics clearly corresponded to variability in program involvement.
Description: This website is a parental support for parents who have children with special needs. Parent to Parent of New York State - a place where families of individuals with special needs and the professionals who serve them can meet and share information.
Parenting Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Description: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension website contains information for parents including information on health and safety, playing games, what to expect, and typical development, birth through 12 months.
Description: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension website contains information for parents including information on health and safety, guidance, what to expect, and typical development, birth through 12 months.
Parent–Teacher Conference Tip Sheets: for Principals, Teachers, and Parent
Description: These newly revised Parent–Teacher Conference Tip Sheets provide key strategies for both parents and teachers to walk into conferences informed and prepared, in order to ensure the most successful outcomes. A tip sheet aimed at school principals also outlines how school administrators can support parents and teachers to that end.
Designed to be used as a set, the tip sheets combine consistent information with targeted suggestions, so that parents and educators enter conferences with shared expectations and increased ability to work together to improve children's educational outcomes.
Also available in Spanish, Hojas de Consejos Para Las Runiones de Padres y Maestros para Directores, Maestros y Padres de Familia, at http://www.hfrp.org/var/hfrp/storage/fckeditor/File/Parent-Teacher-Conference-SPANISH-100610.pdf.
Positive Discipline: A Guide for Parents
Description: Positive Discipline: A Guide to Parents is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 64 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary years. It gives parents ways to address behavior using positive discipline techniques to guide and teach their child(ren). It is filled with ideas that really work.
This printed booklet is available in English and Spanish for a small fee. Not available to download. Somali and Hmong versions are available free online as pdf.
Preparing Young Latino Children for School Success: Best Practices in Family Engagement
Author: Beltran, Erika (4 more by this author)
Description: This policy brief discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with Latino family engagement strategies, highlights a best practice in the field, and concludes with policy recommendations for bringing these programs to scale.
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Preparing Young Latino Children for School Success: Best Practices in Professional Development
Author: Hopper, Karen
Description: This policy brief examines the importance of professional development as it applies to high-quality instruction for young Latino and ELL students and how it can be provided within the context of current workforce constraints.
Provider-Parent Partnership: Divorce
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author); Nithyakala Karuppaswamy
Description: This publication describes how child care providers can help families and children experiencing a divorce. Includes links to other related topics such as; Children’s reactions to divorce – ages and stages
• Stages of adjustment to divorce
• The effect of divorce on children: What makes a difference
• Explaining divorce to children
• Providers talking with parents about divorce
• Visitation do's and don’ts
• Does the child need counseling?
Staying Strong: New Online Tool Supports Military Families
Description: Staying Strong has two components and all materials are available at no cost. A section for parents contains short animated videos of engaging military family stories followed by parenting guidance offered by Paula Rauch, MD, Program Director of the Home Base Family Team. The section for educators features a 25-minute documentary about two military families and the exemplary efforts of their public school community during their fathers’ deployment and return. Downloadable tool kits for teachers and school nurses are included.
The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE)
Description: The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) is a national network interested in promoting strong partnerships between children's educators, their families, and their communities. FINE is set up to serve as a hub of resources for family engagement in children's education, and to enable colleagues in the field to connect and communicate.
The Impact of Childhood Disability: The Parent's Struggle
Author: Moses, Ken
Description: This article is discusses how to work with and help parents who have a child with a disability. It clearly explains all the states a family goes through as they deal with the reality that their child has a disability. The states are explained and suggestions on how you can provide support are included.
"As disability bluntly shatters the dreams, parents face a complicated, draining, challenging, frightening, and consuming task. They must raise the child they have, while letting go of the child they dreamed of. They must go on with their lives, cope with their child as he or she is now, let go of the lost dreams, and generate new dreams. To do all this, the parent must experience the process of grieving."
Also available in pdf at http://www.centerhearingandspeech.org/sites/default/files/Ken%20Moses--Grief%20Article.pdf.
Traveling Light: Family Language Fun to Go
Author: Gnatuk, Carole (20 more by this author)
Description: In todays busy hectic family life of sports, meetings, and hobbies, it can be difficult to find time to connect with your children. The Traveling Light web-based program provides parents with language activities that can be done during the daily commute or during longer trips where the family is in a tight space for a long period of time, giving families opportunities for conversation and keeping the family connected through language.
Understanding Spirited Children
Description: University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension article that address how adults can handle spirited children. Newsletter includes description of common characteristics of spirited children.
– Professional Development –
Partnering with Families in Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Description: The purpose of this tutorial is to provide early childhood mental health consultants with an understanding of what is meant by partnering with families within a consultative approach as well as key practices that support the building and maintenance of strong, relationship-based partnerships. The concepts shared can also readily be applied to any early childhood mental health consultation approach.
Includes 2 modules, post test, take home messages, resources, and references.
– Programming Resource –
Activities to Celebrate Your Family
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at families and people who work with families and includes suggestions on activities, outings, and celebrations to build family strengths.
Assuring the Family's Role on the Early Intervention Team: Explaining Rights and Safeguards
Author: Hurth, Joicey; Paula Goff
Description: This paper is a synthesis of practices and ideas for explaining procedural safeguards to families, which assure that families are fully informed in ways that support their role in the early interven- tion process. The paper includes a step-by-step model of explaining procedural safeguards that parallels the early intervention process. The authors intend to explore the implications of procedural safeguards for families, but not to analyze the Part C safeguards themselves.
AVANCE Parent Child Education Program
Description: AVANCE serves primarily Hispanic families in low-income, at-risk communities with a research-proven program model that is preventative, community-based, two-generation focused and comprehensive in scope. AVANCE offers parent education, social support, and other community needs.
Building Block 2: First Thoughts on Getting Fathers Involved in Head Start
Description: Building Block 2 explores some of the important foundational questions that need to be asked and steps that need to be taken in planning for the development of an effective father involvement program.
Child Care: Raising Children Together
Author: Allen, Rose (7 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses issues that parents and child care providers will more than likely encounter while a child is in child care and how parents and providers can work through them together. Issues include toilet learning, biting, eating habits, holidays, and children's misbehavior.
Communicating With Your Provider
Author: Allen, Rose (7 more by this author); Joan Sprain
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents about communicating with their child's child care provider. The author discusses everyday communication as well as communicating when there is a problem.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment Tool
Description: The National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University's Center for Child and Human Development has developed a new tool for assessing organizational cultural and linguistic competence, designed specifically for family organizations concerned with children with behavioral-emotional disorders, special health care needs, and disabilities. The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment Instrument (2010) can be downloaded in PDF format.
Family Engagement in Early Education: A Resource Guide for Early Learning Challenge Grant Recipients
Description: To support the Race to the Top--Early Learning Challenge (RTTT-ELC) states in their efforts--along with other states, districts, and local programs interested in expanding their family engagement work--Harvard Family Research Project produced this list of resources about engaging and supporting families with young children.
Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Important Role in Children
Description: Over the past 50 years, the role of fathers and father-figures has changed dramatically. Early research centered on the role that fathers played in their children's gender identity and children's development. This brief takes a look at current information and applies it to a "real-life" scenario.
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This publication describes the three keys to father-child relationships and how to implement them into family life.
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet addresses the issue of sibling rivalry as a routine part of growing up in families. It provides tips on how to reduce frustrations over quarrelsome siblings and lessen the fighting.
Description: This framework is a vital tool for early childhood education and care providers seeking to build effective engagement strategies. While the framework is intended for Head Start and Early Head Start programs, its lessons are useful and applicable to a much broader audience of early childhood programs.
This framework outlines an approach to building solid foundations for successful parent and family engagement in three areas: Program Leadership, Continuous Improvement, and Professional Development. The framework also outlines the need to develop solid engagement strategies in four “Impact Areas”: Program Environment, Teaching and Learning, Family Partnerships, and Community Partnerships.
Description: This Web site was developed for child care providers to help them develop better relationships with and support parents. It is focused on how parents and providers can work together for children. The site includes materials that providers can share with parents and suggestions for building relationships.
The Changing Parent-Child Relationship: Struggles between Parents and Teens are Normal
Author: Hooper, Judith; Virginia Molgaard
Description: This fact sheet describes the changing relationship between parent and child as the child becomes a teenager.
What Are My Parental Rights and Responsibilities When My Child Is in Child Care?
Author: Hirschy, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: In this short article, the author lists parents' rights as well as responsibilities as related to their child's child care program. (Note: This resource is also available in HTML and in Spanish as "Cuáles Son Mis Derechos y Mis Responsabilidades?")
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Culture and Parenting: Family Models Are Not One-Size-Fits-All
Description: A new study by Frank Porter Graham researchers examines the utility of two family process models for families with young children from five different cultural groups. FPG investigators explored the relationships between cultural group, sociodemographic variables, various mediators, and children’s academic outcomes. The findings highlight the importance of ensuring that researchers and policymakers do not conceptualize parenting solely based on theoretical models primarily validated with middle-class EA populations, using their values and practices.
Description: Education policy makers identify access to quality pre-Kindergarten programs as a critical step in early childhood development. While most agree on access, definitions of quality vary widely. A new study by the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL) finds that families define quality in broader terms than educators, researchers and policymakers.
Description: The Family Research Laboratory is an independent research unit devoted to the study of family problems. Their Web site contains information on family violence, publications, and a listing of related links. You can also find out about current projects at the Laboratory.
Description: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Program provides data related to the effects of family, school, community, and individual variables on children's development, early learning, and early performance in school.
Pre-K for Military Families: Honoring Service, Educating Children
Author: Surles, Stephanie; Amanda Akers; Jennifer Rosenbaum; Trista S. Kendall
Description: This 2007 report recommended that state policymakers should help the children of our nation's military personnel meet the unique challenges of the military lifestyle by providing them with high-quality Pre-K. High-quality pre-k is an important strategy for addressing the unique challenges faced by military families, and by expanding pre-k eligibility to include military children, policymakers can support the work of our dedicated service men and women.
Research Spotlight: Words Can Hurt, Too -- Another Kind of Bullying
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: Behaviors such as snubbing, exclusion, spreading lies about someone and other relational aggression are more common among girls. Dr. Nicki Crick of the University of Minnesota has led ground-breaking, broad research on the behavior, establishing it as a form of aggression as common as physical aggression among boys.