Engagement & Outreach
Family and Stakeholder Engagement in QRIS 2017 Fact Sheet
Early childhood systems use multiple strategies to create authentic partnerships between families and early care and education providers. This fact sheet from The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA) describes the QRIS family-engagement indicators and stakeholder-engagement campaigns implemented in 2017.
Helping Early Care and Education Programs Assess Family Engagement Practices and Plan Improvements: Results of the Georgia Family Engagement Planning Tool Pilot
Currently, the practical tools are few that help ECE programs assess the strength of supports for family engagement that matter most to family well-being and children’s early learning and that identify the necessary steps to improve these supports. This National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) brief presents information about a new tool, The Family Engagement Assessment and Planning Tool (FEAP-T), designed to help ECE program staff engage in these tasks.
Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8
Parents are among the most important people in the lives of young children. From birth, children rely on mothers and fathers and other caregivers in the parenting role to care for them and to chart a course that promotes their overall well-being. While parents generally are filled with anticipation about their children’s unfolding personalities, many lack information and tools to support them in their parenting role and promote their children's healthy development.
A Family Engagement Infographic Research Brief
This infographic research brief provides a culturally and linguistically appropriate responsive family engagement model for low-income Chinese immigrant parents.
State Consumer Education Web Sites
This issue brief includes a table with links to all state agency, child care resource and referral, and quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) Web sites. The table contains information on whether the sites address the diversity of early education services; include a provider search; explain how to choose quality and QRIS; and provide information on subsidy, licensing, and family support services.
Compendium of Parenting Interventions
This collection of parenting interventions is designed to help you choose evidence-based parenting interventions that are most likely to be effective with families of young children in the settings in which you work.
Implementing Parenting Interventions in Early Care and Education Settings: A Guidebook for Implementation
This guidebook describes the steps and best practices for successfully selecting and implementing a parenting intervention. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide you, as program, state, and network leaders,1 an easy-to-use tool for implementing a parenting intervention.
Aligning QRIS and CCR&R Goals to Support a High Quality Early Learning System
Nearly every state and territory has established a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) or is planning one. In most states, referral agencies (CCR&Rs) play an important part in the implementation of QRIS. Because of this many stae leaders are rethinking the roles of these agencies. In 2014, the BUILD Initiative conducted a survey of states and interviews with state leaders in five states. The BUILD Initiative shares the result of that research in this brief.
Assessing Quality in Family & Provider-Teacher Relationships: Using the FPTRQ Measures in Conjunction with Strengthening Families™ & the Head Start Parent, Family & Community Engagement Frameworks & Self-Assessments
This research-to-practice brief is intended to help policymakers, program managers, and practitioners learn how the newly released Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality (FPTRQ) measures can be used to complement or supplement two approaches, Strengthening Families™ and the Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement (PFCE) frameworks, and their related self-assessments, that have been frequently used by Early Care and Education (ECE) stakeholders to support their work with families and to assess their programs, providers and teachers in these efforts.
Understanding & Measuring Providers’ Teachers’ Cultural Sensitivity with Families - Lesson Learned & Measurement Recommendations
This brief describes the process of measuring cultural sensitivity in the Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality project. Researchers measuring cultural sensitivity in other fields may also find the information contained within this brief useful.