Fundamentals
An interactive process through which program staff and families, family members, and their children build positive and goal-oriented relationships.
What is family engagement?
PFCE stands for this.
What is the Parent, Family & Community Engagement Framework?
Supervision involves the commitment to nurture and guide these people
Who are staff?
This term refers to biological parents, adoptive parents, and step-parents, as well as primary caregivers, such as grandparents, other adult family members, and foster parents or guardians. Parents include pregnant women and expectant partners.
What is 'parents'?
This is how many family outcomes are named in the PFCE Framework.
What is seven?
These people work together with families, other professionals, and community partners in ways that promote cultural and linguistic responsiveness.
Who are Head Start staff?
These outcomes can guide Head Start and Early Head Start staff as they partner with families on the goals parents set for themselves and their children, and as they track progress together toward these goals.
What are Family Outcomes?
These are the two types of responsiveness that Family Engagement is focused on.
What are cultural and linguistic?
We use these two words to refer to all adult caregivers who interact with early childhood programs in support of their child.
What are parent and family?
DAILY CAKE BREAK!
This person's birthday is today.
Who is Lainie?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
TIME FOR CAKE!
These people are at the heart of meaningful family engagement.
Who are children?
By helping all staff members understand their role in systemic, integrated, and comprehensive PFCE, and to coordinate their efforts with others, the Framework can be used as this.
What is a professional development tool?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Built by Head Start staff and community agencies, these things honor and are responsive to the languages and cultures of the families they serve.
What are partnerships?
This can be biological or nonbiological, chosen or circumstantial. Its members are connected through cultures, languages, traditions, shared experiences, emotional commitment, and mutual support.
What is family?
To support effective long term strategic planning within our program's project period, we should have systems, supports and structures in place to inform family and staff about program goals. Our project period lasts this many years.
What is five?
Positive, goal-oriented relationships improve this by reducing isolation and stress for both families and staff.
What is wellness?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Name the three Program Foundations in the PFCE Framework.
What are Program Leadership, Professional Development and Continuous Learning and Quality Improvement?
Regardless of job title, every contact is an opportunity for this.
What is positive engagement?
This term is defined as discrimination against people with disabilities. It includes false assumptions, negative attitudes, or judgments that define people by their disability and view disability as a problem. It also results in barriers that can make it difficult for parents with disabilities to access important programs and services. Many parents with disabilities have experienced it.
What is ableism?
Relationship-based competencies (RBCs) are the knowledge, skills, and individual practices early childhood professionals in every role need to engage and partner with families. This is how many RBCs there are.
What is 10?
In order for parent, family, and community engagement practices to be effective and have long-term impact for children and families, they need to be these three things.
What are systemic, integrated, and comprehensive?
Listed among the Child Outcomes in the PFCE Framework, children develop skills for success in school and life through these.
What are positive interactions/relationships?
Just as Head Start staff strive to engage parents and families in healthy, trusting, and respectful relationships, it is important that staff have the same kind of relationships with these people.
Who are colleagues and supervisors?
This type of approach is essential when planning conversations with parents with disabilities or learning differences.
What is a strengths-based approach?
This is the first step in a strengths-based approach.
Acknowledging the strengths of a family.