Explore relationship-based competencies (RBCs) to support family engagement. Find out how the competencies can be used by various early childhood professionals in different settings.
Watch this four-part webinar series that focuses on the relationship-based competencies—knowledge, skills, and individual practices—staff need based on their roles.
When you engage with a family, you help strengthen the partnership with them. There are six Relationships-Based Practices that can help promote family engagement. These practices are intended to guide what staff say and do with families to support open communication and promote better understanding. Reflecting on how we apply Relationship-Based Practices can improve our efforts to strengthen relationships with families.
In this interactive simulation, practice using relationship-based communications skills to raise and discuss concerns about a child’s development with the family.
Learn how the unique work of home visitors is about ways to “engage in a mutually respectful goal-oriented partnership with families to promote parent–child relationships and family well-being.”
Read findings, analyses, assessments, and reports about the benefits of successful collaborations between Head Start programs, and child care providers.
Explore research on the impact of quality practices, models for quality home-based child care (i.e., family child care), and partnerships between child care and Head Start, and Early Head Start programs.
Find strategies for addressing the PFCE Framework family engagement outcome, "Positive Parent-Child Relationships." Positive parent-child relationships provide the foundation for children's learning. Children discover how to manage emotions and behaviors and establish healthy bonds. They learn to adjust to new situations and resolve conflicts. These important skills help lead to success in school. Head Start and Early Head Start staff may use this resource to strengthen their understanding and look at ways to encourage positive relationships in their programs.
Quickly access all of the resources referenced throughout the FEM Toolkit and share them with families.
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Last Updated: October 5, 2017