Phase 1: Recruitment and Enrollment
Enrollment offers many opportunities to talk with families and learn about the strengths, hopes, and challenges that can shape their FEM goals.
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Phase 2: Family and Child Assessment
Assessment presents an opportunity for staff to listen to families and learn more about their strengths and basic needs. Through a FEM lens, listen carefully for references associated with economic growth.
Phase 3: Communication with Families
Communication with families is key to building the strong relationships necessary to support family economic mobility. Learn how to leverage techniques for sensitive conversations.
Phase 4: Goal Setting with Families
Learn how to use the seven steps for setting and reaching goals with families to provide family economic mobility support.
Phase 5: Follow-up and Review
Situations can change quickly for families. Discover strategies for evaluating and adjusting your approach as you help families work toward their economic stability and mobility goals.
Phase 6: Continuous Program Improvement
Learn how evaluating family goals at the program level can help ensure that your program is well-situated to support the families you partner with.
Step 1: Set a Goal
Explore scenarios and find conversation starters that help kick off discussions with families about defining FEM goals.
Step 2: Identify Skills
Review scenarios and find conversation starters that help you identify skills families might leverage in making progress toward their economic mobility goals.
Step 3: Assess Strengths
Explore scenarios and find conversation starters that help you identify strengths families might leverage in making progress toward their economic mobility goals.
Step 4: Examine Stressors
Review scenarios and find conversation starters that help you identify and address stressors families might need to manage to make progress toward their FEM goals.
