The Structure of Reflective Supervision
Brenda Jones Harden, PhD, Institute for Child Study, University of Maryland, discusses the necessity for regular reflective supervision to support the home visitor.
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Family Engagement
Family engagement is a collaborative and strengths-based process through which early childhood professionals, families, and children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. It is a shared responsibility of families and staff at all levels that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer. Family engagement focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive relationship-building with key family members in a child’s life. These people include pregnant women and expectant families, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and other adult caregivers. It requires making a commitment to creating and sustaining an ongoing partnership that supports family well-being. It also honors and supports the parent-child relationships that are central to a child’s healthy development, school readiness, and well-being. The Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework is a guide to learning how family engagement promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities.
Supervising Socializations: Support for Home Visitors
Tweety Yates, a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, describes and demonstrates the Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI) model for group socializations.
Download the Birth to 5 Father Engagement Guide
Download this practical guide to learn more about how program staff build strong, meaningful, and authentic relationships with fathers in Head Start programs.
Five Questions with Dr. Adolph Brown - Fatherhood
Listen to Dr. Brown speak about his own personal story, which will inspire and will help you think about fathers and how to engage them.
Five Questions with Dr. Brenda Jones Harden – Home Visiting
What is challenging right now for home visitors? Listen to Dr. Jones Harden share about important considerations for supporting home visitors.
Five Questions with Dr. Guylaine Richard – Family Engagement
Listen to Dr. Richard talk about the best ways to approach family engagement and how to support staff and families during challenging times.
Five Questions with Brandi Black Thacker – Engaging Families
In this video, Brandi Black Thacker, director of training and technical assistance, and collaboration at the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement, shares strategies, tips, and her definition of the acronym HUMBLE.
1302.50 Family engagement.
Head Start programs must integrate parent and family engagement strategies into all systems and program services to support family well-being and promote children’s learning and development.
Partnering with Families
Find ways home visitors can build and sustain positive relationships with families. Being well-informed about the Family Partnership Process, family support services, and family engagement can support this work.
