Implementing the PFCE Framework
Explore these resources to learn strategies for making progress toward positive outcomes for families and children.
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.
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Discover the role each Head Start program plays in partnering with diverse families to promote positive child and family outcomes. Explore how family engagement is a shared responsibility.
Learn about effective home visiting practices to help nurture parent-child relationships and positive interactions. Find out how to partner with families to create a rich learning environment in the home.
Discover the importance of establishing effective relationships with families. Learn how these bonds can support family well-being and parents' ability to support their children's healthy development.
Explore this series to learn ways to support parents as advocates and leaders in your program and at home.
In this resource, learn ways staff can support parents as advocates and leaders in early childhood programs and at home.
Explore this tip sheet with parents to discover the many ways they can become an advocate and leader in their child’s school or in their community.
In this tip sheet, learn ways parents can advocate for their children and their communities. Explore how parenting skills have a lot in common with effective leadership skills.
Explore this tip sheet with parents to help them recognize the powerful leadership skills and abilities they already have and use in their everyday life.
Explore this tip sheet to learn strategies to consider for including grandparents in home visits and socializations.