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Engaging Parents: An Important Role for
Early Childhood PractitionersCarol M. Trivette, Ph.D.
Orelena Hawks Puckett InstituteMorganton and Asheville, North Carolina, USA
www.puckett.org
Presentation made at the Opening the Doors to Inclusion: 2013 National Early Childhood Inclusion Institute, May 14, 2013.
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Focus of this Presentation
• Talk about your goals when working with parents.
• Talk about some of the challenges and solutions that you have found in your work with parents.
• Talk about resources that you have found helpful in your work with parents.
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Learning More
• Talk about why you work with parents as part of your job.
• What are your goals for working with parents?
Outcome to share with the group:Identify 5 to 10 different goals that members in
your group have when working with parents.
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Head Start Parent and Family Engagement Outcomes1. Family Well-Being Parents and families are safe, healthy, and
have increased financial security.
2. Positive Parent-Child Relationships
Beginning with transitions to parenthood, parents and families develop warm relationships that nurture their child’s learning and development.
3. Families as Lifelong Educators
Parents and families observe, guide, promote, and participate in the everyday learning of their children at home, at school, and in their communities.
4. Families as Learners Parents and families advance their own learning interests through education, training, and other experiences that support their parenting, careers, and life goals.
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Head Start Parent and Family Engagement Outcomes, continued
5. Family Engagement in Transitions
Parents and families support and advocate for their child’s learning and development as they transition to new learning environments, including EHS to HS, EHS/HS to other early learning environments, and HS to kindergarten through elementary school.
6. Family Connections to Peers and Community
Parents and families form connections with peers and mentors in formal or informal social networks that are supportive and/or educational and that enhance social well-being and community life.
7. Families as Advocates and Leaders
Parents and families participate in leadership development, decision making, program policy development, or in community and state organizing activities to improve children’s development and learning experiences.
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IDEA Parent Outcomes1. Families understand their child’s strengths,
abilities, and special needs.
2. Families know their rights and advocate effectively for their child.
3. Families help their child develop and learn.
4. Families have support systems.
5. Families access desired services, programs, and activities in their communities.
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Head Start Outcomes1. Family Well-Being2. Positive Parent-Child
Relationships3. Families as Lifelong Educators4. Families as Learners5. Family Engagement in
Transitions 6. Family Connections to
Peers and Community7. Families as Advocates
and Leaders
OSEP Outcomes1. Families understand their child’s
strengths, abilities, and special needs.
2. Families know their rights and advocate effectively for their child.
3. Families help their child develop and learn.
4. Families have support systems.5. Families access desired services,
programs, and activities in their communities.
Parent and Family Outcomes
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Your Challenges and Solutions• What do you find challenging for you when
you are working with parents?
• What are some solutions you have used to resolve your challenges?
Outcome to share with group:
Identify 3 to 5 of your challengesand your solutions to share.
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Conceptual Foundations(Capacity-Building Paradigm)
Promotion Models Enhancement and optimization of competence
Empowerment Models Create opportunities to use existing abilities and learn new competencies
Strengths-Based Models Emphasis on the use of strengths to obtain resources improving functioning
Resource-Based Models Use of a broad range of resources and supports as “interventions”
Family-Centered Models Family choice and family involvement in obtaining resources and supports
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Contrasting Approaches to Intervention
Capacity-Building Models Traditional ModelsPromotion TreatmentEmpowerment ExpertiseStrengths-Based Deficit-BasedResource-Based Service-BasedFamily-Centered Professionally-Centered
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Family-Centered PracticesFamily-centered practices are practices that place primary emphasis on creating a relationship with a parent in such a manner that uses and builds on the parent’s capabilities and competencies when supporting his/her child.
• Relational Practices
• Participatory Practices
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Relational PracticesRelational practices include behaviors typically associated with effective help giving (active listening, compassion, empathy, etc.) and positive staff attributions about program participant capabilities.
• These kinds of practices are typically described in terms of behaviors that strengthen program participant and practitioner interpersonal relationships (mutual trust, collaboration, etc.).
• Relational practices also include help-giver beliefs about existing family member strengths and their capacity to become more competent as well as practitioner respect for personal and cultural beliefs and values.
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Family-Centered Practices ScaleRelational IndicatorsStaff really listen to my concerns/requests.Staff see my child/family in a positive, healthy
way.Staff understand my child’s/family’s situation.Staff recognize my child’s/family’s strengths.Staff recognize the good things I do as a parent.Staff do what they promise to do.Staff are warm and caring toward me.
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Participatory PracticesParticipatory practices include behaviors that involve program participant choice and decision making, and which meaningfully involve participants in actively procuring or obtaining desired resources or supports for achieving desired life goals.
• These kinds of practices strengthen existing competencies and provide opportunities for learning new capabilities by engaging family members in informed choices and acting on those choices.
• Participatory practices also include help-giver responsiveness to a family’s situation and changing life circumstances, and help-giver flexibility to these situations and circumstances.
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Family-Centered Practices ScaleParticipatory IndicatorsStaff provide me information to make good choices.Staff respond to my requests for advice/assistance.Staff help me be an active part of getting desired
resources/supports.Staff are flexible when my family’s situation changes.Staff help me learn about things I’m interested in.Staff support me when I make a decision.
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Relational Practices Family-Centered
Help GivingParticipatory
Practices
Self-EfficacyBeliefs
Performanceand
Outcomes
Relationships Among Family-CenteredHelp Giving Practices, Self-Efficacy Beliefs,
and Program Participant Outcomes
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Division for Early Childhood Recommended Practices
http://www.decrecpractices.org
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Other Ideas
Based on the material just presented, what might you do differently to help with your challenges?
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Resources forParent and Family Engagement
& Parent and Family Capacity Building
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Sharing Resources • What resources have you found most helpful to
improve your skills in working with parents?
• What resources have you found most helpful to provide to parents?
Outcomes to share with group:Identify 3-5 resources/strategies that you found
most helpful to improve your skills.
Identify 5-10 resources that you found most helpful for finding ideas/information to provide to parents.
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Parent Practice Guides from theCenter for Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/parentresource1.php
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http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/parentpgs.php
CELLpractices Handouts
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CELLcasts Audio/Visual Practice Guides
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_cellcasts1.php
Downloadable as Podcasts or audio-only Mp3s
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CELLpops Interactive and Print Postershttp://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_cell_pop1.php
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CELLvideos http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_videos1.php
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http://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/families.htm
Resources for Families from the Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention (TACSEI)
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TACSEI’s “Backpack Connection Series” Handoutshttp://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/families.htm
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TACSEI’s “Making Life Easier”
Handouts and Tipcardshttp://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/families.htm
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Additional Print Resources from TACSEIhttp://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/families.htm
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Web Resources
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Head Start’s National Center onParent, Family, and Community Engagement
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/family
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http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/teaching/Disabilities/working%20with%20families
Head Start Resources on Working With Families
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http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc/Early%20Head%20Start/family-engagement
Head Start Resources on Family Engagement and Relationships
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http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/family/center/pfce_simulation
Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation
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Final Conversation
• After this conversation, what will you do differently tomorrow, next week?
• What do you still need to know?
• How will you get the information that you need?