Online Resources

Foundations for Strengthening Families

• The Strengthening Families Approach

  • Strengthening Families EXPANDED Logic Model
    
  • Strengthening Families in Early Childhood Programs: Fact Sheet
    
  • Strengthening Families in Your Early Care and Education Program
    
  • Strengthening Families Logic Model
    

  • Logic Models

    • Strengthening Families EXPANDED Logic Model
      
    • Strengthening Families Logic Model
      

• Research Behind Strengthening Families

  • Literature Review
    

  • Research Briefs

    • Research in Brief: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
      
    • Research in Brief: Childhood Stress across the Lifespan
      
    • Research in Brief: Infant Mental Health and Social Emotional Compentence
      
    • Research in Brief: Resilience in Childhood
      
    • Research in Brief: Risk and Protective Factors
      

• Supporting a Strengthening Families Initiative in Your State

  • Appendix D: Washington
    
  • Budgeting for State Strengthening Families Efforts
    
  • Dollars Invested in SFI by Pilot States
    
  • Levers for Change
    

  • A Look at Strengthening Families in the States

    • A Look at Strengthening Families in the States
      
    • Appendix A: Georgia
      
    • Appendix B: Kansas
      
    • Appendix C: Minnesota
      
    • Appendix D: Washington
      

• Building A State Leadership Team

  • Building a Leadership Team: Fact Sheet
    
  • Implementing Strengthening Families: Leadership Team Discussion
    
  • Tools for Orienting Leadership Teams
    

Learning From Early Care and Education

• Learning From Exemplary Early Care and Education Programs

  • Addison County/Child Center (Middlebury, VT)
    
  • Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center (Washington, DC)
    
  • Carole Robertson Center (Chicago, IL)
    
  • Child Development Program (Albuquerque, NM)
    
  • Children of the Rainbow (San Diego, CA)
    
  • Early Childhood Mental Health Program (San Francisco, CA)
    
  • Educare Center (Chicago, IL)
    
  • Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center (Fairfax, CA)
    
  • Family and Children Educational Services (Brunswick, GA)
    
  • Fort Belvoir Child Development Programs (Fort Belvoir, VA)
    
  • Haitian Center Early Care and Education Program (Dorchester, MA)
    
  • Leelanau Children's Center (Leland, MI)
    
  • Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Early Childhood Center (New York, NY)
    
  • Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc. (Maui, HI)
    
  • Montclair Community Pre-K (Montclair, NJ)
    
  • Palm Beach County Head Start (West Palm Beach, FL)
    
  • Parents and Children Together (Honolulu, HI)
    
  • Region 19 (El Paso, TX)
    
  • Sauk Rapids-Rice Early Childhood Family Program (Sauk Rapids, MN)
    
  • Sheltering Arms Early Education and Family Centers (Atlanta, GA)
    
  • South of Market Child Care, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
    

• Strategies for Strengthening Families in Early Care and Education Programs

  • Including Men
    
  • Mental Health Services
    
  • Physical Space
    
  • Promoting Social and Emotional Development of Children
    
  • Staff Leadership to Create Relationships that Protect Children
    
  • Strengthening Families Program Strategies
    

Working With Families

• Introducing Strengthening Families to Parents

  • Parent Brochure
    

• Parent Partnerships

  • Parent Partnerships: Creating a Successful Action Plan
    
  • Parent Partnerships: Leadership Team Discussion
    
  • State Parent Partnership Strategies
    

Building Knowledge and Enhancing Practice

• Introducing Strengthening Families to Staff

  • Staff Handout - Concrete Support
    
  • Staff Handout - Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
    
  • Staff Handout - Parental Resilience
    
  • Staff Handout - Social and Emotional Competence
    
  • Staff Handout - Social Connections
    

• Professional Development

  • Professional Development: Creating a Successful Action Plan
    
  • Professional Development: Leadership Team Discussion
    
  • State Strategies for Professional Development
    

• Partnering With Child Welfare Agencies

  • Partnering with Child Welfare Agencies: Leadership Team Discussion
    
  • State Strategies for Partnering with Child Welfare Agencies
    
  • Tools for Partnering with Child Welfare Agencies
    

  • Linking Early Childhood and Child Welfare

    • Allied for Better Outomes: Early Childhood and Child Welfare
      
    • Appendix A: Principles, Goals, and Strategies
      
    • Appendix B: State Profile - Illinois
      
    • Appendix C: State Profile - Illinois
      
    • Appendix D: State Profile - Wisconsin
      
    • Appendix E: State Examples of Early Childhood-Child Welfare Linkages
      

• Partnering With Early Care and Education Programs

  • State Strategies for Working with ECE Programs
    
  • State Tools for Working with ECE Programs
    
  • Working with ECE Creating a Successful Action Plan
    
  • Working with ECE Leadership Team Discussion
    

  • Linking Child Welfare and Early Childhood

    • Allied for Better Outomes: Early Childhood and Child Welfare
      
    • Appendix A: Principles, Goals, and Strategies
      
    • Appendix B: State Profile - Illinois
      
    • Appendix C: State Profile - Illinois
      
    • Appendix D: State Profile - Wisconsin
      
    • Appendix E: State Examples of Early Childhood-Child Welfare Linkages
      

• Strengthening Families in Family Child Care

  • Almost Like Family: Family Child Care
    
  • Family Child Care Self Assessment
    

• Evaluation

  • Evaluating a Strengthening Families Initiative: Leadership Team Tool
    
  • Evaluation Tools
    
  • State Evaluation Strategies
    

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Further Learning

• Newsletter Archive

  • April 13, 2010
    
  • December 2009
    
  • December 22, 2009
    
  • February 26, 2010
    
  • January 11, 2010
    
  • January 26, 2010
    
  • July 12, 2010
    
  • July 2008
    
  • June 10, 2010
    
  • June 28, 2010
    
  • March 15, 2010
    
  • March 29, 2010
    
  • March 29, 2010
    
  • May 18, 2010
    
  • May 3, 2010
    
  • October 2008
    

• Presentations and Webinars

  • Strengthening Families 101
    
  • Strengthening Families Family Child Care Study and Self-Assessment
    
  • Using Strengthening Families to Support the Youngest Children