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Engaging Families for Early Intervention Success

Explore the importance of family engagement in early intervention and the benefits it brings to children's development and academic outcomes. Learn about effective family-professional collaboration, challenges, and best practices.

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Engaging Families for Early Intervention Success

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  1. Full Partners: Supporting Family Members as Active Participants and Decision Makers in Early Intervention • Camille Catlett • Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

  2. Why engage families?Evidence-based practicesWhat can it look like?

  3. Family Engagement Helps Children to Succeed • Higher preschool performance and promotion to next grade • More positive engagement with peers, adults, and learning • Buffers negative impact of poverty on academic and behavioral outcomes • (Harvard Family Research Project, 2006; Izzo, Weissberg, Kasprow, & Fendrich, 1999; McWayne, Hampton, Fantuzzo, Cohen, & Sekino, 2004)

  4. When families are engaged, children improve in • literacy • cognitive and language development • academics • behavior and social-emotional development • (Durand, 2011; Lin, 2003; Fantuzzo, McWayne, Perry, & Childs, 2004; Farver, Xu, Eppe, & Lonigan, 2006; Raikes, et al, 2006; López, Barrueco, & Miles, 2006; Yan & Lin, 2002; SuizzoLin, 2003; Fantuzzo et al, 2004; McWayne, Fantuzzo, & McDermott, 2004; Perez-Mendez & Moore, 2009)

  5. Families can become lifelong partners or lifelong bystanders based on how we engage them in the process of supporting their child

  6. Families who are supported by professionals and by their communities do a better job of supporting their children (National Center for Parent, Family and Community Engagement, 2014)

  7. Challenges to Effective Family-Professional Collaboration

  8. New definition of family engagement • Family engagement refers to the systematic inclusion of families in activities and programs that promote children’s development, learning, and wellness, including in the planning, development, and evaluation of such activities, programs, and systems.

  9. Challenges to effective family engagement • Perception that family engagement practices are supplemental, rather than necessary, to successfully promote children’s learning and development • Insufficient attention to preparing professionals to engage with diverse families of young children

  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf_zXx09IB8

  11. What “interventions” work to support family participation and retention? Viewing family members as equal partners Creating opportunities for family members to receive support from peers to increase engagement, reduce stigma, and increase the sense of connection to other family members Making programs culturally relevant Enhancing efforts to involve fathers Addressing trauma, which can interfere with parenting and healthy child development

  12. Two-generation approaches: Supporting children and families(Aspen Institute, 2012)

  13. DEC Recommended Practices

  14. Promote the active participation of families in decision-making related to their child • Lead to the development of a set of goals and the services/supports to achieve those goals • Support families in achieving the goals they hold for their child Family Practices

  15. Argentine woman with Down syndrome inspires as teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN52MkpOJ4w

  16. Family-Centered Practices • Treat families with dignity and respect • Are individualized, flexible, and responsive to each family's unique circumstances • Provide family members complete and unbiased information to make informed decisions

  17. Can we change how we prepare future professionals?

  18. Example: Vermont Family Faculty

  19. Participatory opportunities and experiences • Strengthen existing parenting knowledge and skills • Promote the development of new parenting abilities Family Capacity Building Practices

  20. Example: Confidence and Competence: Partners in Policymaking or C2P2

  21. Resources

  22. Family and Professional Collaboration • Build relationships between families and professionals • Work together to achieve mutually agreed upon outcomes and goals • Promote family competence • Support the development of the child

  23. Nolan’s Story https://www.cde.state.co.us/sites/default/files/video/resultsmatter/NolansStory.mp4

  24. Recurring Themes • Clarify your values and terms, together • Communicate, communicate, communicate • Acknowledge and respect diversity • Use relevant, evidence-based curricula and instructional practices

  25. It’s in Every One of Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDqrCNjDkUM

  26. Thank you

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