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Strengthening Families Protective Factors

Strengthening Families Protective Factors. Niagia Williams Prevent Child Abuse Delaware 100 W. 10 th Street, Suite 715 Wilmington, DE 19801 (302) 425-7490. Risk Factors vs. Protective Factors. Risk Factor Something that can contribute to child abuse or neglect Protective Factor

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Strengthening Families Protective Factors

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  1. Strengthening Families Protective Factors Niagia Williams Prevent Child Abuse Delaware 100 W. 10th Street, Suite 715 Wilmington, DE 19801 (302) 425-7490

  2. Risk Factors vs. Protective Factors • Risk Factor • Something that can contribute to child abuse or neglect • Protective Factor • Things that can help protect a family from child abuse or neglect occurring

  3. Identify at least 3 family strengths!

  4. Protective Factors • Increase the health and well-being of children and families. • Protective factors help parents to find resources, supports, or coping strategies that allow them to parent effectively. • Linked to a lower incidence of child abuse and neglect.

  5. Protective Factors • Many protective factors in general the ones we will look at over the next three months are from the Center for the Study of Social Policy • 2001 grant from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation • New framework and approach • Pilot phase in seven states for two years • Strengthening Families National Network

  6. Protective Factors • Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development • Concrete Support in Times of Need • Parental Resilience • Social Connections • Social Emotional Competence of Children • Nurturing and Attachment

  7. Program Strategies that build Protective Factors • Facilitate friendships and mutual support • Strengthen parenting • Respond to Family Crises • Link families to services and opportunities • Facilitate children’s social and emotional development • Observe and respond to early warning signs of child abuse and neglect • Value and support parents

  8. Let’s look in more detail!

  9. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development • Parents need • Information • Techniques • Perspective Being a great parent is part natural/part learned!

  10. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: Actions to Take • Model good parenting skills • Coach parents through difficult times • Encourage parents to experiment with new techniques • Informing parents that the way they were parented “influences” but does not “determine” how they parent

  11. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: Actions to Take • Parent Education Classes • Lending Library • Provide “just-in-time” parenting and child development information

  12. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: Being Culturally Aware • Multiple Languages for printed information • Acknowledging the values of that culture • Understand role culture plays in parenting

  13. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: What it looks like • Parent behaviors that lead to early secure attachments • Appropriate developmental expectations • Positive discipline techniques • Recognizing and attending to the special needs of a child • Parent who knows importance of certain things in a child life

  14. Concrete Support in Times of Need • Basic Needs • Emotional Support • Help during crises We All Need Help Sometimes!!

  15. Concrete Support in Times of Need: Actions to Take • Connect to economic resources, job training, social services, health care, child care subsidies, and other benefits • Know your community • Provide for immediate needs • Take their culture into consideration when connecting them with providers and resources • “warm transfer”

  16. Concrete Support in Times of Need: Being Culturally Aware • Understand that culture is more than ethnic or racial categories. Culture can apply to age, gender, sexual orientation, religion and even community attitudes and more.

  17. Concrete Support in Times of Need: What it looks like • Being resourceful • Financial security • Seeking help when needed • Navigating through service systems and gaining knowledge of relevant services • Being able to identify, find, and receive the basic needs everyone deserves in order to grow

  18. Concrete Support in Times of Need: Making a Plan • Choose 3 services and determine how your efforts would be more successful by working closely with an organization that provides that service

  19. Next time: • Parental Resilience • Social Connections

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