Family Engagement System Level Strategies
The system level domain provides links to concepts, methods, plans of action, processes, and/or policies designed to assist agencies and systems with engaging families to improve outcomes for families and children
Child Welfare
- Fathers Matter: Involving and Engaging Fathers in the Child Welfare System Process
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Community Engagement
- How to Develop a Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Child Welfare System
- Create culturally inclusive development and implementation processes throughout the child welfare system
- Ask probing questions
- Whom do we serve?
- Whom do we serve well?
- Whom do we not serve, and why?
- Whom do we not serve well and why?
- How does the culture of our clients influence their experiences?
- How does their sociocultural context contribute to their distress and to their healing?
- What organizational changes do we need to make to make a difference?
- Establish a data system to capture information about the composition and characteristics of populations being served by the child welfare system
- Use the data to develop a new or improved practice model, to develop services to fit the populations served, and to make appropriate decisions regarding outreach and collaboration
- Identify and reach out to cultural leaders in the community
- Include community leaders and other representatives from the clients' cultures on advisory and planning committees
- Establish specific workgroups to target cultural issues within the child welfare system
- Develop, in collaboration with the cultural leaders, specific, coordinated plans to address cultural and language issues
- Cultural Resources
- Addressing Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 1,260 KB)
- Engaging LGBT Families: How Leaders Can Build Agency Competency (PDF - 95 KB)
- Engaging LGBT Families: Important Conversations in Child Welfare(PDF - 94KB)
- Entangled Roots: The Role of Race in Policies that Separate Families
- Working With LGBTQ Youth and Families
- Family and Parent Leadership
- Parents Anonymous
- Parent Partner Programs
- Developing and Sustaining a Parent Partner Program
- Implementing Parent Partner Programs and Supporting Reunification [Webinar]
- Parent Partner Program Manual: Sample Policies and Procedures (PDF - 561 KB)
- Parent Partner Program Navigator: Designing and Implementing Parent Partner Programs in Child Welfare
- Parent Partner Program Readiness Assessment Tool: A Matrix to Assess Existing Capacity and Capacity Building Needs (PDF - 1,117 KB)
- System Reform
- Becoming a Trauma Informed Agency: The Waupaca Story (PDF - 5,647 KB)
- California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Iowa Parent Partner Approach
- Coming Together to Create the Child Welfare System We All Want
- Developing a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System
- Engaging Families in System Reform
- How the Child Welfare System Could Protect More Kids and Save Billion of Dollars
- Strategies for Authentic Integration of Family and Youth Voice in Child Welfare
- Training on Family Engagement
- Working with Incarcerated Parents and Their Children
- 305: Engaging Incarcerated Parents Participant Guide (PDF - 1,024 KB)
- Child Welfare Practice with Families Affected by Parental Incarceration
- Directory of Programs Serving Children & Families of the Incarcerated
- Families Impacted by Incarceration
- Guide for Incarcerated Parents Who Have Children in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 612 KB)
- Parenthood Lost: How Incarcerated Parents are Losing Their Children Forever
- Strengthening Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families
- Engaging and Involving Youth: Youth Advisory Boards
- Quality Worker-Parent Visits: A Tip Sheet for Supervisors and Managers (PDF - 202 KB)
Juvenile Justice
- Training on Family Engagement
- Partnering with Families
- Engaging Families and Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
- Engaging Juvenile Justice Involved Families (PDF - 4,076 KB)
- Family Engagement in Juvenile Justice (PDF - 288 KB)
- Identifying, Engaging, and Empowering Families
- Juvenile Justice Research-to-Practice Implementation Resources: Family Engagement and Involvement
- Engaging Families in Juvenile Justice Systems Change
- Effectively Implementing Family Engagement and Involvement Practices for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System [Webinar]
- Juvenile Justice Research-to-Practice Implementation Resources: Family Engagement and Involvement
- N&D InFocus: Successful Family-Justice Partnerships
- A Research Framework for Understanding the Practical Impact of Family Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: The Juvenile Justice Family Involvement Model
- Topical Issue Brief: Improving Outcomes for Youth With Disabilities in Juvenile Corrections - Prioritizing Family Involvement in Transition (PDF - 212 KB)
- Transforming Juvenile Justice Systems to Improve Public Safety and Youth Outcomes (PDF - 439 KB)
Behavioral Health
- Authentic Youth Engagement in Pennsylvania Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grantee Spotlight (PDF - 173 KB)
- Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Councils
The Federal government requires each State to maintain a mental health planning and advisory council (MHPAC) that advocates for adults with serious mental illnesses and for children with emotional disturbances, as well as monitor and review the State's mental health services each year. These councils must consist of various stakeholders, including adults with serious mental illnesses and families of children with emotional disturbances. In recent years, States have combined resources for mental health and substance use, which has resulted in the transition of some councils from MHPACs to behavioral health planning councils.
- Engaging Families in Improving the Health Care System for Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Fathers' Roles in the Care and Development of Their Children: The Role of Pediatricians
- Patient and Family Advisory Councils
- TA Coalition Webinar: Ensuring Stakeholder and Family Engagement in Organizational Oversight of Community Behavioral Health Services
- Toolkit for Expanding the System of Care Approach (PDF - 3,538 KB)
Education
- Authentic Youth Engagement in Pennsylvania Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grantee Spotlight (PDF - 173 KB)
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Guidance and Frameworks for Engaging Families
- The Dual Capacity Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (PDF - 294 KB)
- Engaging Families in Education (PDF - 642 KB)
- National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
- Parent and Family Engagement Provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (PDF- 350 KB)
- Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Family and the Community as Partners in Education Part 1: Building an Understanding of Family and Community Engagement
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education Policy Statement on Family Engagement From the Early Years to the Early Grades (PDF - 1,024 KB)
- Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention
- How Family, School, and Community Engagement Can Improve Student Achievement and Influence School Reform
- Parent Engagement in Schools
- District/State Family Engagement Frameworks
- Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Cultural Engagement Practices
- Critical Practice for Anti-bias Education: Family and Community Engagement
- Engaging Hispanic Families: Overcoming Challenges to Enrich Lives, by Yvette Sanchez Fuentes
- Family Engagement: A Critical Component to Building an Empowering Culture in the Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS) (PDF - 241 KB)
- Tips for Connecting With Non-English Speaking Parents
- Parent as Partners and Leaders
Early Childhood Education
- Recommendations for Implementing Family Engagement Practices Across Systems
- Plan for and prioritize family engagement
- Communicate consistent messages that support strong family engagement
- Invest and allocate adequate resources and support to facilitate implementing family engagement practices
- Establish policies, procedures, and practices that support family engagement at the State and system levels
- Guidance and Frameworks for Engaging Families of Early Learners
- The Dual Capacity Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (PDF - 294 KB)
- The Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework
- National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (NCPFCE)
- National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
- Parent and Family Engagement Provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (PDF- 350 KB)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education Policy Statement on Family Engagement From the Early Years to the Early Grades (PDF 1,024 KB)
- Parents as Partners and Leaders
- Family Agency and Voice: Designing the Next Generation of Family Engagement
- Families Leading Change in Early Childhood Systems: Phase Two Navigating the Ripples
- Integrated School—Family Partnerships in Preschool: Building Quality Involvement Through Multidimensional Relationships (PDF - 202 KB)
- Parent Engagement and Leadership Assessment Guide and Toolkit: Full Report
- State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education (SACPIE)
- Engaging Diverse Families
- 2016-03-23 Beyond Books and Pictures, by Lindsey Allard Agnamba and Je'Kendria Trahan
- Culture & Language
- Engaging Hispanic Families: Overcoming Challenges to Enrich Lives, by Yvette Sanchez Fuentes
- Multicultural Principles for Early Childhood Leaders
- Supporting Parent Engagement in Linguistically Diverse Families to Promote Young Children's Learning: Implications for Early Care and Education Policy
- Home Visiting
- Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) and Family Engagement
- Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents
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