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Strengthening Families Protective Factors Applying the Results

Strengthening Families Protective Factors Applying the Results. Topeka, Kansas Kansas State Coordinators’ Meeting Nancy Keel, MS Ed, P-3 National Trainer Executive Director, Kansas Parents as Teachers Association Coordinator, Olathe PAT Program Director, Kansas City Area PAT Consortium

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Strengthening Families Protective Factors Applying the Results

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  1. Strengthening Families Protective FactorsApplying the Results Topeka, Kansas Kansas State Coordinators’ Meeting Nancy Keel, MS Ed, P-3 National Trainer Executive Director, Kansas Parents as Teachers Association Coordinator, Olathe PAT Program Director, Kansas City Area PAT Consortium September 10, 2013

  2. Build Adult CapabilitiesImprove Child Outcomes • http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/theory_of_change/ • Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University • Find the Protective Factors imbedded in this video

  3. How is it going with the Protective Factors and the PFS? • How many are feeling comfortable with the PF and the PFS? • Are the scores of the PFS helping you as a parent educator? • Are the PFS scores helping the parent educators you work with plan and set goals . . . • visits, • group connections, • child screenings, • family goals, • resource referrals?

  4. Protective Factor SurveyReview • Fill out the Protective factor Survey for yourself.

  5. Objectives • Implementation of the survey with parents or guardians in the PAT Curriculum • Interpretation/Scoring of the screening once completed • Family Goal setting with PFS • Increase individual family protective factors

  6. Embedding the Protective Factors into the PAT Curriculum • Foundational Curriculum pp. 41-46 • Foundational PV #2, #7 – Intro to family • Tool Kit Card page 17 & 18 • PVR: Family strengths and protective factors discussed: check the one discussed and make comments relevant to the protective factor(s). • Group Connection Planner and Record • Group Connection Feed Back Form • Screening – knowledge of child development • Parenting Behaviors – knowledge of parenting

  7. Protective Factors’ Vocabulary • Parental Resilience: being strong and flexible • Social Connections: parents need friends • Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: being a great parent is part experience and part learned • Concrete Support: we all need help sometimes • Social Emotional Development of Children: help your children communicate and give them the love and respect they need. • http://www.slideshare.net/211Broward/five-protective-factors. Many examples of words and open ended questions

  8. Calculating Subscale ScoresFSS Toolkit, pages 46-47 • Resiliency: Items 1-5 • Social Support: Items 6, 7, 10 • Concrete Support: Items 8, 9, 11 • Nurturing and Attachment: Items 17, 18, 19, and 20 • Child Development/Knowledge of Parenting: Items 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 • (More specific scoring found on pages 46 and 47)

  9. The Strengthening Families Approach • Benefits ALL families • Builds on family strengths, buffers risk, and promotes better outcomes • Can be implemented through small but significant changes in everyday actions • Builds on and can become part of existing programs, strategies, systems and community opportunities • Is grounded in research, practice and implementation knowledge

  10. Protective Factor Survey • Survey results provide • A snapshot of the families you serve • Changes in protective factors • Areas where parent educators can focus on increasing individual family protective factors • Survey results are not: • Individual assessments • Used for placement • Used for diagnostic purposes

  11. Five Protective Factors PARENTAL RESILIENCE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS KNOWLEDGE of PARENTING and CHILD DEVELOPMENT CONCRETE SUPPORT in TIMES of NEED SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE of CHILDREN

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