Tips for Supervising Family Services Staff Who Are Working Remotely
Supervisors can use these tips to support family services staff and other direct service professionals who are teleworking with families.
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.
Supervisors can use these tips to support family services staff and other direct service professionals who are teleworking with families.
Find tips for family services staff and other direct service professionals who are teleworking with Head Start and Early Head Start families.
Explore how home visitors work with families to provide experiences that support their child's development and learning, engage in back and forth supportive interactions, and use the home as a learning environment.
Parents can use this tool to reflect on how their program is partnering with families. Learn how to use the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework in this effort.
Learn how home visitors can effectively engage with families and support parents in their role as their child's first teacher. Explore the benefits for families enrolled in the home-based option.
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Hear how home visitors can use reflective practice to effectively support families' goals for their children. Explore resources that support reflective practices.
Find out how one program encourages parents to build their leadership and confidence skills. Learn how parents and staff can develop trusting relationships and partner to build on family and child strengths.
Explore this simulation to practice relationship-building between a Head Start coordinator and a special education team leader from a receiving public school.
Deepen staff understanding of the connections between PFCE strategies and practices across program systems and services that lead to a systemic, integrated, and comprehensive approach to family engagement.