As a family services manager, it is essential to continue to develop your knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and competencies in family services to lead your team effectively. Therefore, we designed this section to provide you with supplemental material to enhance your learning and support your team's professional development.
Related Resources by Section
The following Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) resources are organized by section and listed in alphabetical order.
1. Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Fundamentals
- Building Partnerships with Families Series
- Equity Considerations for ERSEA
- Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework
- PFCE Simulation Series: Boosting School Readiness Through Effective Family Engagement
- Relationship-Based Competencies to Support Family Engagement: Family Services Professionals
- Staff-Parent Relationships that Honor and Support Parenting
- Strategies for Implementing the PFCE Engagement Framework
2. The Family Services Manager's Role in Program Systems
Head Start Management Systems Wheel
- Head Start Management Systems Wheel
- Head Start Monitoring Protocols
- Integrated Strategies for Program Progress
Professional Development
- Credentialing and Degree Programs Databases for Family Services Staff
- Individualized Professional Development (iPD) Portfolio
Data: Continuous Learning and Quality Improvement
- Community Assessment: The Foundation for Program Planning in Head Start
- Data in Head Start and Early Head Start Series
- Foundations for Excellence
- Measuring What Matters: Using Data to Support Family Progress
- Office of Head Start Federal Monitoring
- Self-assessment: Your Annual Journey
3. The Family Services Manager's Role in Supporting Staff Working with Families
Wellness Strategies
- Caring for Ourselves as We Care for Others
- Cultivating Wellness: 8 Dimensions of Staff Well-being
- Program Strategies for Leaders and Supervisors
- Promoting Staff Well-being
- Self-care Tips for Family Services Professionals and Home Visitors
- ACF-IM-HS-21-05 Supporting the Wellness of All Staff in the Head Start Workforce
- Supporting Professionals Who Support Families: The Parallel Process
- Tips to Support Family Services Staff Wellness
The Family Partnership Process
- Building Partnerships with Families Series
- PFCE Simulation Series: Boosting School Readiness Through Effective Family Engagement
- Relationship-Based Competencies to Support Family Engagement: Family Services Professionals
- The Family Partnership Process: Engaging and Goal-setting with Families
- Using Social Media to Engage Families
- Strategies to Support and Engage Families Virtually
- Relationship-building During Transitions
Community Partnership Process
- Engaging Community Partners to Strengthen Family Services
- Strategies and Examples for Community Partnership
4. Planning and Managing Family Services Throughout the Year
Head Start Program Performance Standards by Section
2. The Family Services Manager's Role in Program Systems
Head Start Management Systems Wheel and the PFCE Framework
- Additional Services for Children with Disabilities, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart F
- Transition Services, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart G
- Services to Enrolled Pregnant Women, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart H
- Human Resources Management, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart I
- Program Management and Quality Improvement, 45 CFR 1302 Subpart J
- Management systems, 45 CFR §1301.101(b)(1–2)
- Program Structure, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart B
- Education and Child Development Program Services, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart C
- Health Program Services, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart D
- Family and Community Engagement Program Services, 45 CFR §1302 Subpart E
- Family engagement, 45 CFR §1302.50(b)(2),(6)
- Parent activities to promote child learning and development, 45 CFR §1302.51(a)(1–3)
Professional Development
Data: Continuous Learning and Quality Improvement
- Community partnerships and coordination with other early childhood and education programs, 45 CFR §1302.53(2–4)
- Purpose, 45 CFR 1302.100 Subpart J
- Achieving program goals, 45 CFR §1302.103(b)(1)(2),(c)(1)(2),(d)(1)(2–3)
3. The Family Services Manager's Role in Supporting Staff Working with Families
Community Partnership Process
- Determining community strengths, needs, and resources, 45 CFR §1302.11
- Family partnership services, 45 CFR §1302.52(d)
- Community partnerships and coordination with other early childhood and education programs, 45 CFR §1302.53(a–b)
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Resource Type: Article
National Centers: Parent, Family and Community Engagement
Audience: Family Service Workers
Last Updated: June 26, 2024