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.
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Family Support and Well-being
Family well-being occurs when all family members are safe, healthy, and have chances for educational advancement and economic mobility. Support services such as early care and education, housing and food assistance, and physical and mental health care positively contribute to the well-being of families and their children. When families face challenges that cause stress, including poverty and homelessness, their health and wellness can be negatively impacted. Engaging families as active participants in problem-solving and goal-setting can help them identify and use their own strengths to address the challenges they face. When families are healthy, safe, and economically stable, their children's health and well-being can thrive.
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.
Step 5: Explore Strategies
Explore scenarios and find conversation starters that help you identify and share strategies families might use to make progress toward their FEM goals.
