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Strengthening Families and Communities: 2009 Resource Guide

Author(s):  Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention

Year Published:  2009

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You are in section: Table of Contents Letter From the Children’s Bureau About the Resource Guide Protective Factors for Strengthening… Levers for Change: Deepening and Sustaining… Using Evidence to Support Efforts… Promoting the Five Protective… Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and… Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports for Parents Tools for Engaging Your Community Engaging Community Partners Tips for Working With Specific Groups Talking Points Temas de conversación Sample Press Release for National… Ejemplo de boletín de prensa Sample Public Service Announcements Ejemplo de anuncio de servicio público… Sample Letter to Legislators Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Child Maltreatment National Child Abuse Prevention Partners Federal Interagency Work Group on Child… Using the Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers Bonding With Your Baby Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une Dealing With Temper Tantrums Los berrinches Connecting With Your Teen Cómo relacionarse con su hijo adolescente Teen Parents...You’re Not Alone! Hay muchos padres adolescentes como usted Ten Ways to Be a Better Dad Diez maneras de ser un mejor padre Raising Your Grandchildren Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente

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This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce the risk of child maltreatment, strategies for changing how communities support families, and evidence-informed practices. It also offers suggestions for enhancing protective factors in families, tools to build awareness and develop community partnerships, information about child abuse and neglect, a directory of national organizations that work to strengthen families, and tip sheets in English and Spanish on specific parenting topics.

Table of Contents

Letter From the Children's Bureau

About the Resource Guide

Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork

Protective Factors for Strengthening Families

Levers for Change: Deepening and Sustaining a Protective-Factors Approach

Using Evidence to Support Efforts to Strengthen Families

Chapter 2: Working With Families: The Five Protective Factors

Promoting the Five Protective Factors

Nurturing and Attachment

Knowledge of Parenting and of Child and Youth Development

Parental Resilience

Social Connections

Concrete Supports for Parents

Chapter 3: Engaging Your Community

Tools for Engaging Your Community

Engaging Community Partners

Tips for Working With Specific Groups

Talking Points

Temas de conversación (Talking Points in Spanish)

Sample Press Release for National Child Abuse Prevention Month

Ejemplo de boletín de prensa (Press Release in Spanish)

Sample Public Service Announcements

Ejemplo de anuncio de servicio público para radiodifusión (PSAs in Spanish)

Sample Letter to Legislators

Chapter 4: Protecting Children

Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

Reporting Child Maltreatment

Chapter 5: Resources

National Child Abuse Prevention Partners

Federal Interagency Work Group on Child Abuse and Neglect

Chapter 6: Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers

Using the Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers

Bonding With Your Baby

Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une

Dealing With Temper Tantrums

Los berrinches

Connecting With Your Teen

Cómo relacionarse con su hijo adolescente

Teen Parents... You're Not Alone!

Hay muchos padres adolescentes como usted

Ten Ways to Be a Better Dad

Diez maneras de ser un mejor padre

Raising Your Grandchildren

Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente

You are in section: Table of Contents Letter From the Children’s Bureau About the Resource Guide Protective Factors for Strengthening… Levers for Change: Deepening and Sustaining… Using Evidence to Support Efforts… Promoting the Five Protective… Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and… Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports for Parents Tools for Engaging Your Community Engaging Community Partners Tips for Working With Specific Groups Talking Points Temas de conversación Sample Press Release for National… Ejemplo de boletín de prensa Sample Public Service Announcements Ejemplo de anuncio de servicio público… Sample Letter to Legislators Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Child Maltreatment National Child Abuse Prevention Partners Federal Interagency Work Group on Child… Using the Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers Bonding With Your Baby Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une Dealing With Temper Tantrums Los berrinches Connecting With Your Teen Cómo relacionarse con su hijo adolescente Teen Parents...You’re Not Alone! Hay muchos padres adolescentes como usted Ten Ways to Be a Better Dad Diez maneras de ser un mejor padre Raising Your Grandchildren Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente

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Updated on October 9, 2009