Description:
Successful family engagement starts with a partnership built on relationships with families, examining our attitudes and practices, defining cultural perspectives through strength-based attitudes, and applying practices that provide families with agency. In this training, we will discuss how working with families to build strong and effective partnerships helps children and families thrive and examine how partnerships laid in positive, ongoing, goal-directed relationships with families can make a difference.
Who Should Attend:
Shelter staff who work with young children and families from Alameda County's transitional housing programs and foster care system; children's program managers, family advocates, and case managers; all providers who work with families experiencing housing insecurity.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Explain the importance of building positive goal-oriented relationships with families
- List at least 2 ways to build positive goal-oriented relationships with families
- Explore how family engagement strategies affect strength-based attitudes when working with families
- Practice applying 6 family engagement shifts when working with families
- Describe how cultural beliefs and assumptions affect your work with families
Agenda:
9:30 am
Registration opens
10:00 am
- Welcome and introductions
- The dynamics of families who are housing insecure
- Ensuring housing insecure families are connected to social safety nets
- The lived experiences of families with young vulnerable children
10:30 am Break
10:40 am
- Helping housing insecure families in your program and out
- Necessary shifts to support housing insecure families
11:45 am
Q&A
11:55 am
Evaluation
12:00 pm
Adjourn
