Strengthening Families Protective Factors Applying the Results

Strengthening Families Protective Factors

Applying the ResultsTopeka, Kansas

Kansas State Coordinators’ Meeting

Nancy Keel, MS Ed, P-3 National TrainerExecutive Director, Kansas Parents as Teachers

AssociationCoordinator, Olathe PAT

Program Director, Kansas City Area PAT Consortium

September 10, 2013

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

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?

Protective Factor SurveyReview

• Fill out the Protective factor Survey for yourself.

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

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

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

Calculating Subscale Scores

FSS 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)

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

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

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