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National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement

Family Engagement is Everybody's Business

Welcome to the National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement (NCPFCE).  We are jointly administered by the Office of Head Start (OHS) and the Office of Child Care (OCC). NCPFCE supports family well-being, effective family and community engagement, and children’s school readiness. We are a consortium of partners including the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (lead), Child Care Aware of America, Inc., Center for the Study of Social Policy, and Child Trends.

State-Level Professionals and Training and Technical Assistance Providers can explore NCPFCE resources to build knowledge and strengthen practices of early childhood professionals.  Our resource topics include:

  • Family Engagement
  • Family Engagement and Systems Building
  • Consumer Engagement and Consumer Education
  • Family Engagement and Child Development
  • Father Engagement

Looking for additional resources? Check out NCPFCE on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center. Find resources related to family engagement, building relationships with families, child development and early learning, and using data to measure family progress.

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Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework for Early Childhood Systems

The research-based Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework for Early Childhood Systems Series includes a a guide to understanding the collaborative relationship between parents and early childhood systems, programs, providers, family caregivers, and community service providers to promote positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities. Accompanying resources are designed to support implementation of the Framework in early childhood systems-building efforts. For State-Level Professionals and Training and Technical Assistance Providers.

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Consumer Engagement: Orientation for Early Childhood and School-Age Care & Education Professionals

The Consumer Engagement: Orientation for Early Childhood and School-Age Care & Education Professionals introduces a vision for engaging families as consumers of early childhood and school-age care and education services and explains how this vision relates to consumer education and family engagement.  For State-Level Professionals and Training and Technical Assistance Providers.

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Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Interactive Learning Series for Early Childhood Professionals

Explore the Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Interactive Learning Series for Early Childhood Professionals to enhance your knowledge around family homelessness. Review other relevant federal regulations for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)-subsidized programs. For State-Level Professionals, Training and Technical Assistance Providers, and Direct-Child Serving Practitioners.

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Consumer Education Websites: A Guide to Creating a Family-Friendly Experience

Use the Consumer Education Websites: A Guide to Creating a Family-Friendly Experience to create or enhance a family-friendly consumer education website.  For State-Level Professionals and Training and Technical Assistance Providers. 

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Consumer Engagement: Using Social Media to Engage Families

Explore Consumer Engagement: Using Social Media to Engage Families to learn more about how to use social media to partner with families to support their children’s learning and development.

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Consumer Engagement: Strategies for Engaging Families

Explore Consumer Engagement: Strategies for Engaging Families to learn more about engaging parents as consumers in plans, processes, and programs that are part of an agency’s everyday responsibilities.

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Relationship-Based Competencies to Support Family Engagement Series

The Relationship-based Competencies to Support Family Engagement series consist of four resources describing knowledge, skills, and individual practices that professionals need to effectively engage families.

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Key Indicators of High-Quality Family Engagement for Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Use the Key Indicators of High-Quality Family Engagement for QRIS to support early childhood state systems-building efforts to advance family engagement. 

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Asociación con los padres para acceder y conservar los subsidios en las Asociaciones entre Early Head Start y Cuidado Infantil

Explore este recurso para conocer mensajes, estrategias y ejemplos clave para los profesionales de la primera infancia y sus socios locales con el objeto de promover la utilización de subsidios para el cuidado infantil entre las familias que forman parte de las Asociaciones entre Early Head...

Partnering with Parents to Access and Maintain Subsidy in Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Explore this resource for key messages, strategies, and examples for programs and their local partners to promote the use of child care subsidies among families in Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships. Find tips for what parents need to know, and how to work with parents to access and...

Foundations for Quality: A Consumer Education and Engagement Series

The Foundations for Quality series is a collection of resources designed to support states, territories, and tribes and others responsible for consumer education and engagement in developing and implementing effective, family-friendly consumer education and engagement strategies....

Family Engagement in Early Care and Education Learning Series

The National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement, in collaboration with the EarlyEdU Alliance®, has developed the Family Engagement in Early Care and...

Key Indicators of High-Quality Family Engagement for Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Use this research-based resource to support early childhood state systems-building efforts to advance family engagement.

The eight key Indicators of high-quality family engagement can be linked to Quality Rating and Improvement Systems’ (QRIS) Indicators and Standards in any phase of...

Consumer Engagement: Using Social Media to Engage Families

Explore this resource to learn more about how to use social media to partner with families to support their children’s learning and development....

Consumer Engagement: Strategies for Engaging Families

State, Territory, and Tribal child care administrators and others may use this resource to support consumer education and family engagement. Explore the strategies to promote consumer engagement in line with the vision presented in Consumer Engagement: Orientation for Early Childhood and School-...

Supporting Family Engagement Implementation in Early Childhood and School-Age Child Care Settings

Explore this brief to learn about a set of resources designed to help build knowledge and strengthen practices for implementing family engagement. They may be used to support professional development for early childhood and school-age care and education professionals.

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Supporting State and Territory Efforts To Reduce Suspension and Expulsion

This resource was presented as part of the impact sessions at STAM 2018.

Digital Tools for Engaging Parents to Support Children’s Learning

In these guides created for early childhood professionals, explore digital tools designed to encourage parents to talk with their infants and children. Share these tools with parents, along with tips and information about talking with their young children. Parents’ early conversations with their...

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