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Integrating the Protective Factors Framework
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Objectives for TodaySample learning experiences from the two day training, “Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life” and gain a better understanding of:• The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress• The Protective Factors • Everyday actions for integrating the Protective Factors in your own
life and practice
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The Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors FrameworkBackground
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework is a national and international initiative that aims to develop and enhance five specific characteristics (called protective factors) that help keep families strong and children safe from abuse and neglect.
This framework was developed by the Center for Social Policy (CSSP), with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The initial goal was to create a national, systemic approach to prevention that would reach large numbers of children long before abuse or neglect occurred.
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework was designed to assist professionals who work with children and families in promoting the optimal development of all children while protecting vulnerable children from maltreatment.
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ACEs- Adverse Childhood Experiences
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.• More than 17,000 members• More than 50 scientific articles• Findings suggest that certain childhood experiences are major risk
factors for the leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in the United States.
From www.cdc.gov
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Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework Logic Model
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http://www.whatmakesyourfamilystrong.org/
Why Is It Important to Build Partnerships with Families?• The family is the center of a child’s life;
working with parents gives us a more holistic view of how to support and strengthen that family.
• Highly involved families almost double the positive odds for their children in education, health promotion and social-emotional development.
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Protective Factors Are Dependent on CultureAs we consider each Protective Factor,ask yourself these three questions:1. How does culture impact this
Protective Factor in a family?2. How does your own culture shape
how you feel, how you react and what you say or think?
3. How does culture impact the way you interact with the families with whom you work every day?
The ability of families to get through difficult and challenging circumstances, recover, and even grow from the experience.
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Parental Resilience
Resilience Blocks
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Resilience Blocks ActivityThink of a time when you were resilient…
• Rearrange the blocks in a way that represents a “map” of which blocks played a critical role in helping you “bounce back” from a negative experience.
• The bottom layer of the pyramid should include traits and skills that are the foundation or ground work for your resilience.
• The next layer includes steps you need to take in order to manage stress and continue to function well even in the midst of and through challenging times.
• The top two layers represent steps that are only possible when added to the strong foundation already built – the demonstrate an actual increase in resilience.
• You may not need to/or want to use every block.
• You may also not necessarily have a specific number of foundational blocks as in the diagram.
• You may choose to insert a blank block or two if you feel you want to need to. For example, “faith” is a block that some people feel needs to be there.11
A network of people who care, listen, share parenting values and offer help.
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Social Connections
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Video: Take a Seat and Make a Friend
Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
A basic understanding of how children develop and what children need from their parents, as well as parenting skills and strategies for guiding children’s behavior.
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David’s Rules of Parenting• Insert Audio
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Concrete Supports in Times of Need
Access to needed resources, including financial help, housing support, mental health or substance abuse services, health care, and more, through formal and informal supports.
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“Balls in the Air” Activity
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Social Emotional Competence
The age-appropriate ability of children to understand and cope with feelings such as anger, happiness and sadness, and relate to others.
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Video: The Power of Empathy
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Children with a strong foundation in emotional vocabulary:
• Tolerate frustration better
• Get into fewer fights
• Engage in less destructive behavior
• Are healthier
• Are less lonely
• Are less impulsive
• Are more focused
• Have greater academic achievement
Characteristics of Helpers
Recall people who have helped you at some point in your life.
Make a list of the characteristics that “helpers” seem to have in common.
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Everyday Actions That Help Build Protective Factors
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To learn more about the Protective Factors:• Explore the Alliance online training – with a course on each Protective
Factor – free of charge on the Alliance website at:http://ctfalliance.org/onlinetraining.htm
• Discover all of the resource materials that define in more detail all of the Protective Factors on the Center for the Study of Social Policy website at: http://www.cssp.org/reform/strengtheningfamilies/about#protective-factors-framework. These include: Research briefs about each Protective Factor Core Meanings of the Protective Factors PowerPoint Slides about the Protective Factors The Research Behind the Protective Factors
ContactIf you have questions about
Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work,please contact the Alliance at:
If you are interested in participating in a Training for Trainers for Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work,
please contact the Alliance at: