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The Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework is a road map for progress. It is a research-based approach to program change designed to help Head Start programs achieve outcomes that lead to positive and enduring change for children and families.
Refresh or deepen your knowledge about economic mobility with this list of commonly used terms and their definitions.
This glossary provides family services professionals with definitions of the most common acronyms used in the field. It is not an official Head Start glossary.
The goals of the Head Start training are to develop skills and practices for developing strong relationships with families in order to help families identify and set goals.
Learn about the goal-setting process and review the seven steps for setting and reaching goals with families.
Explore this three-module course to learn about the knowledge, skills, and practices family services professionals need to engage in the family partnership process and goal setting with families.
Find out how to partner with both parents and discover the goals fathers have for their children and themselves.
Explore how to support staff with goal-setting, program decisions, sensitive conversations, and creative partnerships that respond to family strengths and needs.
Supervisors and Managers can use this resource as a guide to support staff in using a strengths-based approach in their work with families.
This resource provides guidance to create and review sustainable memoranda of understanding that ensure appropriate services and programs are in place to benefit children with disabilities and their families.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families
