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Engaging Families and Communities

Engaging Families and Communities

Communities can serve as powerful partners—in preventing child and abuse and neglect, and in supporting families at the front end of child welfare. Engaging communities to support families expands the available resources for all and fosters a sense of collective responsibility for the well-being of children. Moreover, engaging with communities creates opportunities to address the broader issues that put families at risk. This innovation stream focuses on three distinct sub-topics:

  • Programs and activities that focus on engaging fathers
  • Efforts to build family and parent leadership in child welfare systems change
  • Community approaches to engagement, prevention and intervention

Spotlight On

90by30—Engaging Everyone as Active Partners in Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

One Oregon county is mobilizing a broad community to reduce child abuse and neglect by 90% in 30 years.

Father Engagement: Addressing the Challenges

How do we address and resolve some of the more challenging aspects of effective father engagement?

Engaging Dads: Seeing Their Strengths

Instead of believing that dads are a liability, we need to understand that they are an asset.

Digital Dialogues

Videos

  • Engaging Dads: Seeing Their Strengths
    Instead of believing that dads are a liability, we need to understand that they are an asset.
    01:58
  • Getting Real With Fathers
    Many men are taught to bottle up their emotions; however, men grow by sharing experiences and bonding with others.
    03:19
  • Xavier's Story
    Learn how Xavier overcame challenges to become a better father – and a role model for boys growing up without fathers.
    02:16
  • Dads Rock! Nurturing Father Engagement
    Dads Rock follows fathers on the journey to deepen their bonds with their children and the professionals working to improve father engagement.
    11:03
  • An Unlikely Partnership
    A collaboration between the State of Washington's Department of Early Learning and Department of Corrections to help keep families together during the incarceration of a parent.
    09:42
  • Fostering Hope Initiative
    "It takes a village" in an old idea, but here in Oregon, it’s tangibly changing community supports for families.
    06:18
  • Magnolia Community Initiative
    Could 35,000 low income children in Los Angeles break records of success in education, health & economic stability?
    06:39
  • Partners United for Supportive Housing
    How does it change the game when you provide stable housing to families first, then address their other complex needs?
    07:55
  • Building Community, Building Hope
    The full-length film profiles three programs engaging communities to prevent child abuse and neglect. Start the conversation in your community about what you can do to support families.
    22:39