Health Literacy: Health Tips for Families
In this fact sheet, find tips that can help families understand and use health information they receive from their doctors and other sources.
Family well-being occurs when all family members are safe, healthy, and have chances for educational advancement and economic mobility. Support services such as early care and education, housing and food assistance, and physical and mental health care positively contribute to the well-being of families and their children. When families face challenges that cause stress, including poverty and homelessness, their health and wellness can be negatively impacted. Engaging families as active participants in problem-solving and goal-setting can help them identify and use their own strengths to address the challenges they face. When families are healthy, safe, and economically stable, their children's health and well-being can thrive.
In this fact sheet, find tips that can help families understand and use health information they receive from their doctors and other sources.
Safety, health, and financial stability are key to family well-being. Explore ways program staff can promote and support family well-being.
Programs must collaborate with parents to promote children’s health and well-being by providing medical, oral, nutrition and mental health education support services that are understandable to everyone.
Families can find information about children's health insurance and Medicaid and where to start when they are ready to apply.
Listen as Head Start grantees and adult education and workforce training program staff currently engaged in partnerships share their experiences.
Review strategies for identifying families facing food insecurity. Learn how to address their needs through program actions and community partnerships.
Explore ways to build on opportunities and meet challenges of strengthening the partnerships between Head Start and Early Head Start services and Community Action Agencies (CAA). Find out how to maximize resources and promote the best possible outcomes for families. Learn about strategies, tools, and resources for overcoming barriers to CAA collaboration and coordination.
Learn about resources for helping families resolve challenges as they pursue their education and training goals.
Children learn the social meanings of gender from adults and culture. Beliefs about activities, interests, and behaviors associated with gender are called "gender norms," and gender norms are not exactly the same in every community.
Family well-being means all family members are safe, healthy, and have chances for educational advancement and economic mobility. When families face challenges, their health and wellness can be negatively impacted.