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Family Support Guide Available

The Strengthening Families and Communities: 2009 Resource Guide is now available for civilian providers in their work with civilian and military parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect.

The Resource Guide was created primarily to support community-based child abuse prevention professionals who work to strengthen communities and support parents, caregivers, and their children. However, other people such as policymakers, parent educators, family support workers, health care providers, program administrators, teachers, child care providers, mentors, and clergy, also will find the resources useful.

This guide highlights strategies that can strengthen families by promoting key protective factors that have been shown to prevent child abuse and neglect. It also includes strategies to promote community awareness of these key protective factors, as well as tip sheets in English and Spanish to share with parents.

This is an excellent resource guide for civilian providers to help military families deal with the stressors that they may be experiencing as a result of multiple, extended deployments; single parenting while a loved one is deployed; dealing with multi-aged children who may be experiencing depression, grief and loss of a deployed parent, etc.

Resources include:

  • Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork – this includes information about the research and theory on which the Resource Guide is based, including protective factors that help reduce child abuse and neglect, strategies for creating lasting change in how communities support families, and evidence-informed practice.
  • Chapter 2: Working With Families: The Five Protective Factors – this includes detailed information about each of the protective factors and tips for infusing them into direct practice with families and children.
  • Chapter 3: Engaging Your Community – this has tools and strategies to help build community awareness and support the development of broad-based community partnerships.
  • Chapter 4: Protecting Children – this has information about why child abuse occurs, risk factors, consequences, and identifying and reporting maltreatment.
  • Chapter 5: Resources– this has contact information for private and Federal partners working nationally to strengthen families.
  • Chapter 6: Tip Sheets for Parents and Caregivers – this has strengths-based tip sheets on specific parenting topics that can be used in discussions or visits with caregivers.
The Resource Guide was developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Welfare Information Gateway, and the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, with input from numerous national organizations, Federal partners, and parents.

To view or order the guide, go to the Child Welfare Information Gateway Web site at www.childwelfare.gov/preventing or contact Information Gateway at info@childwelfare.gov or 1-800-394-3366.

Published Date: 06/11/2009