Our goal is to help district and school personnel develop supportive environments and implement effective strategies and policies that promote positive behavior,
enhance protective factors, increase academic engagement, and improve academic performance.
Learn ways to
enhance protective factors and promote well - being https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/preventionmonth/
~ Explore / review risk and protective factors for suicidality ~ Discuss ways to reduce risk and
enhance protective factors ~ Identify suicide warning signs IS PATH WARMED ~ Learn the SPLASH acronym for suicide screening
Engaging Lifespan Respite System to
Enhance Protective Factors [PowerPoint] FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (2013) Offers continuing education and professional development opportunities for community - based child abuse prevention programs.
Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals
enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.
The results should assist health and social service providers, educators, and others in taking the first steps to diminish risk factors and
enhance protective factors for our young people.
· Identify children and families that may require additional support to
enhance their protective factors and reduce their risk for mental health difficulties.
Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals
enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.
The first tier involves early identification and assessment of at - risk students, the second tier includes referral to community resources for additional support services and the third tier
enhances protective factors which increase resilience and provide defense against stressors.
Enhancing protective factors, such as social support is also beneficial.
Not exact matches
From this perspective, pastoral care can assist students to develop positive self - esteem, healthy risk taking, goal setting and negotiation, thus
enhancing their strengths and other
protective factors contributing to their resiliency as well as developing a sense of social cohesion that together can improve their overall health and wellbeing (Nadge, 2005 and Doll & Lyon, 1998).
Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes a framework for increasing family strengths and
enhancing child development by helping parents build
protective factors in their lives and communities.
The packet includes suggestions for
enhancing each of the five
protective factors in families; tip sheets in English and Spanish for providers to use when working with parents and caregivers on specific parenting challenges strategies; for sharing the message about child abuse prevention in communities; and information about child abuse and neglect.
Positive youth development principles provide a foundation for lessons to
enhance self - efficacy, positive identity, and pro-social behaviors which are all
protective factors associated with abstinent behavior.
Enhancing family and environmental
protective factors means children are less likely to be vulnerable because they receive the acceptance, warmth and support required for their learning and development.
Substance - Affected Families in Recovery U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center Describes Meta House, an organization that provides a continuum of care to women and their children that helps strengthen and build family
protective factors to increase child well - being, improves permanency,
enhances safety of children that have been exposed to substances prenatally, breaks the cycle of substance abuse and family violence, and provides hands - on parent education and coaching.
These
protective factors have been shown to increase family strengths,
enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect:
Some
protective factors have been addressed in published curricula (e. g., preventing alienation,
enhancing self - esteem, and learning self - control).
Therefore, we recommend interventions based on the social cognitive theory.62 For example, social support has been found to be an important
protective factor in reducing stress and depression and improving health.62 After the occurrence of a traumatic event, enabling function of social support can
enhance self - efficacy, thereby promoting recovery from the trauma.62
The tips are based on the five «
protective factors» identified by Strengthening Families ™, a research - informed, cost - effective strategy to increase family strengths,
enhance child development, and reduce child abuse and neglect.
Enhance family functioning across life domains by reducing risks and building
protective factors
This paper provides a very good summary of
protective factors associated with resilience and outlines methods to
enhance such
protective factors in group intervention environments.
With a focus on
protective factors, rather than risk
factors, family strengths are
enhanced to buffer risk
factors.
The PF program (Drake - Brockman and Roberts, 2001) is provided for parents to
enhance family
protective factors, around the transition to high school.
It aims to
enhance family
protective factors for young adolescents over the transition to secondary school.
Protective and risk
factors in health -
enhancing behavior among adolescents in China and the United States: Does social context matter?
The Diabetes Group Therapy Project (Kichler, Kaugars, Marik, Nabors, & Alemzadeh, 2013) is a multifamily group intervention provided in an outpatient clinical setting that addresses both
protective and promotive
factors to
enhance optimal health outcomes among teenagers (aged 13 — 17 years) with T1D and their parents / caregivers.
Universal preventive approaches to parenting programmes are generally designed to reduce family - related risk
factors and
enhance family
protective factors by targeting an entire population (e.g. national, local community, neighbourhood or school).
Others, such as the Healthy Families Parenting Inventory and the
Protective Factors Survey, examine a range of skills parents may have (e.g., child development knowledge, emotional well - being) as well as situational challenges, such as the quality of the home environment or access to social supports, that
enhance or limit their capacity to meet their child's needs.