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Engaging Families of Children with Disabilities

Learn how to effectively partner with families of children with disabilities. This partnership not only promotes children’s learning and development, but also supports family learning, advocacy, and leadership skills.

Engaging Fathers

Explore the strategies that Early Education Services in Brattleboro, VT uses to engage fathers in their children's learning and development. In this Head Start program, dedicated fathers learn from one another and make connections. They also learn to build a community that helps them fulfill their role as one of the most important people in their children's lives.

Engaging Fathers Facilitator's Guide

This guide outlines ways to use the Engaging Fathers video as a professional development tool with program staff. It provides a simple structure to organize discussion, highlights PFCE Framework themes to consider, and lists a few questions to prompt a conversation about the strategies staff might use to influence positive family outcomes.

Engaging Fathers in Their Children’s Learning and Development

Find out how staff can partner with fathers to best support their children’s school readiness. Research shows that engaged fathers can have significant positive effects on their children’s cognition, language, and social and emotional development in the preschool years.

Engaging Fathers: Getting on the Bus

This video is part of the professional development module, Engaging Fathers. It is one of several modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.