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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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About the Resource Guide

This Resource Guide was developed to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to prevent child abuse and neglect. It was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, its Child Welfare Information Gateway, and the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention. The resources featured represent the work of a broad-based partnership of national organizations, Federal partners, and parents committed to strengthening families and communities.

What's Inside

The Resource Guide was created primarily to support community-based child abuse prevention professionals who work to strengthen communities and support parents, caregivers, and their children. However, others such as policymakers, parent educators, family support workers, health care providers, program administrators, teachers, child care providers, mentors, and clergy, also will find the resources useful.

Resources include:

• Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork—Information about the research and theory on which the Resource Guide is based, including protective factors that help reduce child abuse and neglect, strategies for creating lasting change in how communities support families, and evidence-informed practice.
• Chapter 2: Working With Families: The Five Protective Factors—Detailed information about each of the protective factors and tips for infusing them into direct practice with families and children.
• Chapter 3: Engaging Your Community—Tools and strategies to help build community awareness and support the development of broad-based community partnerships.
• Chapter 4: Protecting Children—Information about why child abuse occurs, risk factors, consequences, and identifying and reporting maltreatment.
• Chapter 5: Resources—Contact information for private and Federal partners working nationally to strengthen families.
• Chapter 6: Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers—Strengths-based tip sheets on specific parenting topics that can be used in discussions or visits with caregivers.

Many more resources for strengthening families are available from the national organizations and Federal partners listed in our resource directory.

Using the Resource Guide

The following are several suggested uses for the Resource Guide:

• Distribute copies to key community partners working with children and families, including child welfare agencies, child advocacy centers, public health agencies, child care centers, family therapists, media representatives, schools, faith communities, and policymakers.
• Use the Resource Guide as a topic for discussion at an upcoming meeting of your family strengthening community partnership.
• Provide copies to those who regularly offer trainings to family support workers in your community.
• Use the information in the Resource Guide when developing your own media kits, press releases, and other public awareness tools.
• Make the information available to those in your community who are writing grants to support family strengthening work.
• Make copies of the parenting tip sheets for use in parent education classes or parent support groups.

Please let us know how you are using this year's Resource Guide and how we can better meet your needs! Take our brief survey: www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/surveys/PreventionGuide.cfm

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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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To view or order materials available from the 2009 Resource Guide, please visit our website at: http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/res_guide_2009/

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Updated on October 9, 2009