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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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You are in section: Table of Contents Letter from the Associate Commissioner About This Packet Protective Factors for Promoting… Partnering With Parents and… Promoting the Five Protective… Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and… Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports 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 Tools for Engaging Your Community Talking Points Community Strategies Pitching Story Ideas to the Media Understanding Child Abuse and… Reporting Child Maltreatment National Organizations That Protect…

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Chapter 4: Engaging Your Community
Tools for Engaging Your Community

When families are supported, children are less likely to be at risk for child maltreatment and more likely to grow up happy and healthy. This chapter offers suggestions for engaging your community in supporting, strengthening, and promoting healthy families through the five protective factors. Working with others provides greater opportunities to identify strategies for ensuring that all parents in your community have the skills, supports, and resources they need to care for their children.

Service providers and others committed to improving the well-being of children and youth can take part in informing and motivating other concerned individuals, community groups, religious institutions, schools and universities, and the local media to help.

In this chapter, you will find tools to help you share your message about the importance of positive parenting and ways to support families in your community through:

• Talking points
• Community strategies
• Pitching story ideas to the media

More information about engaging your community is available in the Public Awareness & Creating Supportive Communities section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway website: http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/communities

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You are in section: Table of Contents Letter from the Associate Commissioner About This Packet Protective Factors for Promoting… Partnering With Parents and… Promoting the Five Protective… Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and… Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports 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 Tools for Engaging Your Community Talking Points Community Strategies Pitching Story Ideas to the Media Understanding Child Abuse and… Reporting Child Maltreatment National Organizations That Protect…

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Updated on October 9, 2009