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National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

Community and Family Involvement

Community Action Guide to Support Infants and Young Children

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Bullying Prevention and Intervention

Bullying Prevention and InterventionThe Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiatives highlighted in this report illustrate a variety of innovative and noteworthy ap

Using the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework in Your Program: Markers of Progress

This guide defines indicators of progress and program/system change and can be useful for applying parent, family, and community engagement practices beyond Head Start as well.

Engaging Home-based and Family, Friend and Neighbor Providers

Date/Time (ET): 
August 8, 2011 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Date/Time TBD: 
August, 2011

This call will focus on a part of the child care spectrum which is both a core support to many families, and often outside of existing early childhood systems-building work.

Family-Focused Pediatrics (2nd Edition): Interviewing Techniques and Other Strategies to Help Families Resolve Their Interactive and Emotional Problems

Publisher: 
American Academy of Pediatrics

This new edition describes how to plan family meetings, interview families using a family systems approach, assess family interactions, and assist families to develop adaptive behaviors.

Promoting Safe, Healthy, Engaged and Democratic K-12 School Communities

Date/Time: 
July 12, 2011
Location: 
New York, NY

The Annual Summer Institute is an event you won't want to miss!

NASP: Opportunies for School Psychologists Working With Children of Military Families

Publisher: 
National Association of School Psychologists

This article in the latest volume of the NASP Communique online journal discusses the unique and often challenging role that children of military families face in schools, which often involves freq

Developing and Sharing Information about Services in Your Community: Stories from the Field

Meeting: 
SS/HS Project Directors' Consortia March 2011
Date: 
March 18, 2011 - 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Although we all understand the importance of sharing information to streamline services and reducing barriers for families attempting to access services, the thought of how to begin this process ca

Quality Benchmark for Cultural Competence Project

This tool provides strategies for early childhood programs to integrate cultural and linguistic competence into their services through policiy, team building, and program development.

Family Engagement, Diverse Families, and Early Childhood Education Programs: An Integrated Review of the Literature

This literature review from the National Association for the Education of Young Children explores different models of family engagement that early childhood systems can apply to their programs.