Encouraging Strong Parent-Child Relationships
Explore strategies to encourage strong and positive parent-child relationships. Discover how to use family engagement efforts that include valuing, respecting, and supporting families.
Displaying 254 results
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.
My White Shoes
In this vignette, a Head Start teacher demonstrates how to engage young children when reading them a book.
Reading Together
This video is part of the Understanding Children’s Behavior as Communication module. It is one of several professional development modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.
Resources for Families
Dr. Kathleen Meeker offers suggestions for connecting families with resources.
The Tower
This short video clip demonstrates a caregiver's communications with young children.
Head Start and Early Head Start Relationship-Based Competencies
Explore the Head Start and Early Head Start Relationship-Based Competencies for Staff and Supervisors Who Work with Families. It outlines the necessary knowledge, skills, and actions for staff working with families in Head Start and Early Head Start programs. These competencies represent both research-based and best practices in the early childhood, human services, and social work fields.
Partnerships That Foster Development and Learning: Real to Reel: Everyday Talk
This video is part of the professional development module, Partnerships That Foster Development and Learning. It is one of several modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.
Engaging Fathers: Getting on the Bus
This video is part of the professional development module, Engaging Fathers. It is one of several modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.
Engaging Fathers: Volunteers in the Classroom
In this video, explore a key part of the professional development module, Engaging Fathers. It is one of several modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.
Engaging Fathers: Arrival at Family Child Care
This video is part of the professional development module, Engaging Fathers. It is one of several modules in the Family Engagement in Early Care and Education series.
