Engaging Fathers and Male Caregivers
Explore these resources to learn ways to enhance your program’s father engagement efforts.
Family engagement is a collaborative and strengths-based process through which early childhood professionals, families, and children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. It is a shared responsibility of families and staff at all levels that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer. Family engagement focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive relationship-building with key family members in a child’s life. These people include pregnant women and expectant families, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and other adult caregivers. It requires making a commitment to creating and sustaining an ongoing partnership that supports family well-being. It also honors and supports the parent-child relationships that are central to a child’s healthy development, school readiness, and well-being. The Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework is a guide to learning how family engagement promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities.
Explore these resources to learn ways to enhance your program’s father engagement efforts.
Explore ways to engage fathers in children's development. These quick strategies can enhance father engagement efforts in early childhood programs.
Display these wall posters to celebrate fathers’ passion for their children and the many things they do for their children every day.
This video features teen parents talking to other teens about getting involved in the Early Head Start program. Use it to spark conversations with teens in your community.
Explore how family engagement and practice strategies are key to building relationships with families.
Watch this webinar series to learn ways to partner with parents and families to help their children develop language and literacy skills.
In this webinar, learn how to use books and stories can be used to teach children strategies ways to cope with challenging emotions and situations.
Explore the role that Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships play in effective parent, family, and community engagement. This guide offers definitions, tools, and guides for reflective practice and supervision.
Head Start programs recognize parents’ roles as children’s first and lifelong teachers. Review requirements for engaging parents and family members in the program's education services and policy implementation.
Review the requirements for developing a family partnerships process that identifies family strengths and needs and features an approach that individualizes services.