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Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet
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Author(s):
Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
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| Year Published: 2008 |
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 Associate Commissioner
Chapter 1: Overview
Protective Factors for Promoting Healthy Families
Partnering With Parents and Caregivers
Chapter 2: The Five Protective Factors
Promoting the Five Protective Factors
Knowledge of Parenting and of Child and Youth Development
Chapter 3: Tip Sheets for Parents
Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une
Obtenga ayuda cuando la necesite
Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente
Chapter 4: Engaging Your Community
Tools for Engaging Your Community
Pitching Story Ideas to the Media
Chapter 5: When Children Are at Risk
Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
National Organizations That Protect Children and Promote Healthy Families
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.
