Family Engagement Program Level Strategies
The program level domain provides links to various family engagement programs and/or methods of family engagement used by agencies of the different disciplines referenced in the inventory.
Child Welfare
- Culturally Responsive Programs
- Cultural Broker Program
- Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice (CW360°, Winter 2015) (PDF - 9,216 KB)
- Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations: A Resource Guide for Community-Based Organizations (PDF - 5,827 KB)
- Engaging LGBT Families: Creating a Welcoming Environment (PDF - 95 KB)
- Enhancing Cultural Competence in Social Service Agencies: A Promising Approach to Serving Diverse Children and Families (PDF - 803 KB)
- Getting Off to a Good Start: Positive Interactions with Diverse Families (PDF - 198 KB)
- Latino Practice Advisory Committee
- Differential or Alternative Response
- Family Group Decision-Making and Family Team Approaches
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Family Group Decision Making (FGDM)
- Quick Reference Guide: Various Approaches and Models to Engage the Family Group in Child Welfare Decision Making (PDF - 436 KB)
- Strategies in Child Welfare: Four Approaches to Family Team Meetings (PDF - 2,232 KB)
- Using Family Group Decision-Making to Build Protective Factors for Children and Families
- Father Involvement
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Father Involvement Interventions
- Engaging Fathers podcast series
- Father Engagement: Addressing the Challenges
- A Father's Impact on Child Development
- Fatherhood Organizations
- Integrating Approaches that Prioritize and Enhance Father Engagement
- National Fatherhood Initiative
- Real Talk: Responding to Challenging Issues in Father Engagement
- Why Strengthening Families Efforts Should Incorporate Father Involvement (PDF - 704 KB)
- The X-Y Factor: Engaging Dads Using the Protective Factors
- Foster Family/Birth Family Meetings
- Foster Parenting to Adoption: Lessons Learned from Meeting My Son's Birth Mother
- Icebreaker Meetings: A Tool for Building Relationships Between Birth and Foster Parents (PDF - 1,679 KB)
- Icebreaker Meeting Information (PDF - 53 KB)
- Making a Difference at Child and Family Team Meetings
- Project Update: Ice Breaker Meetings for Children in Foster Care Project
- Foster Parents Mentoring Birth Parents
- How Can Birth and Foster Parent Partnerships Help Families Reunify?
- Issue Brief: Strong Families - What are Some of the Strategies Being Used to Reunite Families With Substance Use Disorders? (PDF - 465 KB)
- Partnering With Birth Parents To Promote Reunification
- Tip Sheet for Supporting Reunification
- Nexus-Kindred Family Healing Foster Care/Adoption Services
- Intensive Family Preservation Services
- Motivational Interviewing
- Application of Motivational Interviewing Techniques in Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 1,157 KB)
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Motivational Interviewing: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals
- Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare Services
- Parent Partner Programs
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Parent Partner Programs for Families Involved in the Child Welfare System
- Developing and Sustaining a Parent Partner Program [Podcast]
- FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention: Stories of Parent Leadership
- Parent Advocacy
- Parent Partner Program Navigator: Designing and Implementing Parent Partner Programs in Child Welfare
- Solution-Based Casework
- Signs of Safety
- Strengthening Families 101
- Working with Incarcerated Parents and Their Children
- Coping With Incarceration
- Inside Out Dad‒an Evidence-Based Fatherhood Program Developed Specifically for Incarcerated Fathers ®
- Little Children, Big Feelings
- The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated
- See Us, Support Us: Identifying and Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents in Child Welfare
- A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
- Supporting Fathers and Families Impacted by Incarceration
- Working with the Correctional System and Incarcerated Parents
- Youth Engagement
- 2018 National Adoption Month: Lifting Up Youth Voices to Promote Permanency
- Achieving Authentic Youth Engagement: Core Values and Guiding Principles
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC): Engaging Foster Youth Android App
- Engaging and Involving Youth
- Engaging Youth - Extending Foster Care Policy Toolkit: Paper 2 of 5 (PDF - 447 KB)
- Supporting Youth in Foster Care in Making Healthy Choices: A Guide for Caregivers and Caseworkers on Trauma, Treatment, and Psychotropic Medications
- Youth Led Organizing: A Strategy for Healing and Child Welfare System Change
Juvenile Justice
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Engaging Youth and Families
- Effectively Implementing Family Engagement and Involvement Practices for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
- Facilitating Family Engagement in Juvenile Corrections (PDF - 288 KB)
- Family Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System (PDF - 2,145 KB) [Presentation]
- National Mentoring Resource Center
- Our How-To Guide for Launching a Youth Engagement Program
- The Role of Family Engagement in Creating Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Systems (PDF - 115 KB)
- Supporting Youth in Foster Care in Making Healthy Choices: A Guide for Caregivers and Caseworkers on Trauma, Treatment, and Psychotropic Medications
- Family Acceptance Project
- Functional Family Probation and Parole (FFP®) Model
- Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Parenting with Love and Limits
- Restorative Justice
- Solution Based Casework
- Treatment Foster Care Oregon
Behavioral Health
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances Program (PDF - 4,157 KB)
- National Gang Center Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- NCJFCJ Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Directory of Programs Serving Children & Families of the Incarcerated
- The Family Check-Up
- Family Engagement and Involvement in Trauma Mental Health (PDF - 94 KB)
- Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers
- Parenting with Love and Limits
- The PIER Training Institue
- Multisystemic Therapy
Education
- Aligning and Integrating Family Engagement in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS): Concepts and Strategies for Families and Schools in Key Contexts
- Family, School, and Community Engagement
- Aligning and Integrating Family Engagement in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS): Concepts and Strategies for Families and Schools in Key Contexts
- Connecting the Dots: Raising a Reader Builds Evidence Base for Its Parent Engagement and Early Literacy Program (PDF - 206 KB)
- Families in the Driver's Seat: Parent-Driven Lessons and Guidelines for Collective Engagement (PDF - 6,144 KB)
- Home/School Partnerships
- How Family, School, and Community Engagement Can Improve Student Achievement and Influence School Reform: LITERATURE REVIEW (PDF - 1,731 KB)
- Parent Institute for Quality Education
- Culturally Responsive Engagement
- Programs for Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Children of Prison Inmates
- Educators Are Critical Partners in Making a Difference in the Lives of Children of Incarcerated Parents [Webinar]
- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Tip Sheet for Teachers (Pre-K through 12): Supporting Children Who Have an Incarcerated Parent
- When a Parent Is Incarcerated: A Primer for Social Workers and Foster Parents
- Women's Storybook Project of Texas
- Student Engagement
Early Childhood Education
- Child Engagement
- Culturally Responsive Family Engagement
- Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors
- Family Engagement and Cultural Perspectives: Applying Strengths-based Attitudes (PDF - 632 KB)
- Family Engagement Strategies for All Languages and Cultures, by Karen Nemeth
- Family Engagement Strategies for All Languages and Cultures [Presentation] (PDF - 3,174 KB)
- Partnerships for Change: Listening to the Voices of Families
- Father Engagement
- The Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework
- Home-Based Programs
- Early Head Start Home-Based Program
- Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
- Parents as Teachers
- Strengthening Families
- Working with Incarcerated Parents and Their Children
The Family Engagement Inventory: A Brief Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis: Program-Level Strategies (PDF - 315 KB)
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