Toward
a synthesis of family support practices and positive behavior support.
Not exact matches
Findings in the majority
of research
syntheses indicate capacity - building helpgiving practices are related to a host
of positive parent,
family, parent — child, and child outcomes.22, 27,5 Both relational and participatory helpgiving practices were found to be related to participant satisfaction with program and practitioner
supports, program resources, informal and formal
supports, parent and
family well - being,
family functioning, and child behaviour and development.
I compare the impacts
of increased
family support on student test scores from these four studies with the impacts
of pre-K school readiness interventions using, first, a
synthesis of findings from 67 pre-K evaluations
of test outcomes 2 - 4 years after pre-K, [xv] and, second, the follow - up findings from the Head Start Impact Study [xvi] for 3rd graders.
This
synthesis reflects CSSP's theory
of change, which
supports the need to work in all domains
of the social ecology — individual, familial and relational, community, societal, and policy — in order to make a difference in the lives
of families and children.