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Home > Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet

 

 

Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community : 2008 Resource Packet
Author(s):  Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
Year Published:  2008



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This information packet was written to support child maltreatment prevention efforts by describing strategies and activities that promote protective factors. It is written for service providers, to encourage and support them as they engage and partner with parents to protect, nurture, and promote the healthy development of children. The packet includes suggestions for enhancing each of the five protective factors in families; tip sheets in English and Spanish for providers to use when working with parents and caregivers on specific parenting challenges; strategies for sharing the message about child abuse prevention in communities; and information about child abuse and neglect, ...

Table of Contents

Letter from the Associate Commissioner

Chapter 1: Overview

About This Packet

Protective Factors for Promoting Healthy Families

Partnering With Parents and Caregivers

Chapter 2: 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: Tip Sheets for Parents

Using Tip Sheets for Parents

Bonding With Your Baby

Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une

Dealing With Temper Tantrums

Los berrinches

Setting Rules With Teens

Los adolescentes y las reglas

Finding Help When You Need It

Obtenga ayuda cuando la necesite

Raising Your Grandchildren

Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente

Chapter 4: Engaging Your Community

Tools for Engaging Your Community

Talking Points

Community Strategies

Pitching Story Ideas to the Media

Chapter 5: When Children Are at Risk

Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

Reporting Child Maltreatment

National Organizations That Protect Children and Promote Healthy Families

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