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 September 10, 2013

Build Adult Capabilities Improve Child Outcomes /multimedia/videos/theory_of_change/ /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 Survey Review 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 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. factors. Many examples of words and open ended questions factors

Calculating Subscale Scores FSS Toolkit, pages 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