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These resources offer guidance on how Head Start programs can support parents and families in developing healthy relationships with their child from birth. These positive relationships help nurture a child’s health, development, and learning. In the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework, Positive Parent-Child Relationships is one of the seven family outcomes that affect child outcomes.
Learn ways professional development can help build and expand home visitors’ capacity to work with families to support their child’s development. Find resources to support ongoing professional development.
Share this tip sheet with families to support the use of schedules and routines at home with their children. Learn why schedules are important for children's development.
In this set of videos, learn about the home-based program option. Find out how home visits work, what parents can expect from a home visitor, and the role parent's play in the development of their child.
Explore this resource to foster positive parent-child relationships through everyday staff-parent relationships. Find prompts and questions that invite partnership-building conversations with parents.
Personal and cultural background informs how people parent. Head Start programs can provide important support to parents who want the best for their children.
Secure relationships are the foundation of trust. By using positive, strengths-based attitudes, staff can create trusting, supportive partnerships with parents.
The positive, goal-directed relationships Head Start staff form with parents can strengthen the relationships parents have with their children. This parallel process supports parents in self-discovery.
Head Start staff can use these three steps to build relationships with parents and support their learning and decision-making.
Head Start staff and parents bring unique elements to their relationship while they work with a focus on supporting children’s growth and learning.
Explore resources to support strengthening parent-child relationships through everyday staff-parent relationships.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families
