Dear Friends,
Mark your calendars and register for the 2013 Strengthening Families Summit! More than 40 states are implementing Strengthening Families and are using Strengthening Families as a framework for bridging early care and education, children's health and mental health, family support and early intervention sectors. The Strengthening Families approach is an evidence informed practice based on decades of child abuse prevention studies.
Keynote: Nilofer Ahsan from the Center for the Study of Social Policy. Nilofer leads the national Strengthening Families initiative, which works with states and national partner organizations to improve outcomes for parents and children through the Protective Factors Framework. Learn how you can Move from Theory to Practice and work across professional disciplines to use this best practice approach for working with families. CEU's in Marriage and Family Therapy will be offered. Professional development hours with be offered from the NH Department of Education and the NH Department of Health and Human Services, DCYF Child Development Bureau. Who should attend? Parent educators, home visitors, social workers, nurses, medical providers, psychologists, therapists, early childhood educators, parent leaders, teachers and concerned citizens. What is the Strengthening Families Approach?
Strengthening Families is a framework developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy to prevent child abuse and neglect. This approach helps programs work with parents to build the following protective factors:
- Parental resilience
- Social connections
- Concrete support in times of need
- Knowledge of parenting and child development
- Social and emotional competence of children
The Strengthening Families approach offers:
- An intuitive framework for what families need and what programs can do to support them
- A broad range of concrete low- and no-cost actions that programs of all types can implement
- Free and accessible tools and resources to support implementation at the program, policy and systems levels
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