Virtual Service Planning Tips
Use the following tips to gather the information you need to begin planning virtual family engagement services. These tips also can help strengthen your current practices and support ongoing improvement.
Use the following tips to gather the information you need to begin planning virtual family engagement services. These tips also can help strengthen your current practices and support ongoing improvement.
Researchers have identified many benefits of virtual service delivery. The most common benefits are increased access and improved convenience and flexibility.
Explore this resource to foster positive parent-child relationships through everyday staff-parent relationships. Find prompts and questions that invite partnership-building conversations with parents.
Head Start staff and parents bring unique elements to their relationship while they work with a focus on supporting children’s growth and learning.
Head Start staff can use these three steps to build relationships with parents and support their learning and decision-making.
The positive, goal-directed relationships Head Start staff form with parents can strengthen the relationships parents have with their children. This parallel process supports parents in self-discovery.
Secure relationships are the foundation of trust. By using positive, strengths-based attitudes, staff can create trusting, supportive partnerships with parents.
Personal and cultural background informs how people parent. Head Start and Early Head Start programs can provide important support to parents who want the best for their children.
Explore this guide that provides specific observations from long-term partnerships with Early Head Start and Head Start programs and offers an insight on the most effective use of the Family Connections materials.
Explore this guide that includes information and processes focused on assessing a program's level of "readiness" to engage in the kind of work involved in reaching out to families and children facing adversity.