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Parent, Family and Community Engagement

Understanding Trauma and Healing in Adults

Explore this resource to learn about trauma, how traumatic events impact families and staff, and how to promote healing, resilience, and family well-being.

Lessons Learned from Using the Family Connections Materials

Explore this guide that provides specific observations from long-term partnerships with Early Head Start and Head Start programs and offers an insight on the most effective use of the Family Connections materials.

Family Connections Readiness Guide

Explore this guide that includes information and processes focused on assessing a program's level of "readiness" to engage in the kind of work involved in reaching out to families and children facing adversity.

Strengthening Staff Trauma-informed Practices

Learn how to strengthen trauma-informed practices for staff. Review strategies staff can use to practice trauma-informed care. Find examples of how to support staff in a trauma-informed program.

Coping and Healing

Review strategies for coping with and healing from trauma. Learn how families’ strengths help the healing process.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Engaging with Families

Explore how infant and early childhood mental health consultants can use this resource to guide their family engagement work with early childhood professionals and families.

Understanding Children's Behavior as Communication

Explore ways early childhood staff can partner with families to understand and respond to children's behavior as communication. Find strategies for working with families of children ages birth to 5.

Tell Me a Story Series

Use this resource to help build parent and staff capacity in using books and stories for helping young children learn, manage strong emotions, deal with feelings of grief, or work on their social skills.

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