The following resources address how to engage community members to support children, youth, and families, including State and local examples. Community-Based Family Support: Exemplars With Implementation and Evaluation Strategies Casey Family Programs Focuses on the need for community-based initiatives and summarizes lessons learned from the design and implementation of current and past community-based support programs.
Quality Matters: Improving Caseworker Contacts with Children, Youth, and Families Capacity Building Center for States Discusses strategies for creating effective working relationships between child welfare caseworkers, parents, resource parents, and youth in care.
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families Describes how families need support from their community when they fall on hard times and discusses Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention programs.
Educators who actively learn about and seek understanding with the family are in a better position to help the family connect to services or resources. Following up with families is an important step after a resource is requested by a family, or offered by the ECE professional.
Sometimes, a family may not follow through with a concern. This could be because the family may not yet be emotionally ready to hear or see the concern. Another reason may be that a family needs extra support to follow through with a contact, for example, a phone and quiet place to call the resource or organization. The relationship, support, and understanding the family receives from the ECE professional are key to continued discussions with the family as they navigate concerns, and explore resources.
The ECE professional, learning setting, and community are important parts of the broader support system that connect families with important resources and services. Family engagement is foundational to the strong relationships, collaborations, and active engagement that build the best outcomes for children and families.
Better Kid Care. Sign In for Online Courses. Required Health and Safety Online Courses. Learn More Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners State, regional, and local groups collaborating so all children in Wisconsin receive services and support for optimal developmental potential from birth through age 5. This website addresses some of the balancing issues. Local Criminal Justice and Prevention Resources about community corrections, reentry and transitioning jail inmates; prevention and intervention programs for juvenile delinquency; and programming for incarcerated audience educators.
What Works Wisconsin Tools for practitioners and policymakers to develop, evaluate and improve prevention programs for children, youth and families. Explore Extension ». Quinn , Carolyn Miller. Millions of parents and caregivers lost jobs and income, hindering their ability to put food on the table. School closures, remote learning, and limited-to-no access to child care has weighed heavily on many, especially those with lower incomes working essential jobs everywhere from grocery stores to nursing homes.
The pandemic has also exacerbated existing housing challenges, from high rental costs to an ongoing eviction crisis. In spite of these challenges, our colleague Jennifer Ng'andu recently noted that families are resilient and hopeful.
Because the pandemic weighs so heavily on working families, a key piece of inclusive recovery is ensuring that caregivers and their children have the support they need to thrive.
As researchers, our job is to glean lessons from the data and understand what will help communities recover. When the pandemic hit, we pivoted to focus on nine of these communities. The latest set of reports in the Sentinel Communities: COVID Community Response series focuses on how these nine communities have supported children and families during the pandemic.
The evidence is showing us that helping families recover helps our society recover. Though some see this as a divergent path, the truth is that health, social, and economic policies go hand in hand.
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