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The research-based Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework for Early Childhood Systems Series includes 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.
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 is committed to bringing innovation and the latest research and best practices to the early childcare and education community. Equity is at the core of this work and will be visible as we strive to strengthen the parent and community voice in this effort.
We are a consortium of partners including Start Early (lead), Child Trends, LIFT, Early Learning Lab, Fred Rogers Center, and the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Together, our focus is to create high-quality, responsive training and technical assistance (TTA), rooted in equity and cultural and linguistic responsiveness, to support staff, families, and communities nationwide. We will build on and extend the strong foundational work that has been done over the past decade, while innovating and evolving the work of the new NCPFCE.
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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Highlighted Tools and Resources:
The Foundations for Quality resource series is designed to support development and implementation of effective, family-friendly consumer education and engagement strategies.
Use the Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff as a tool for professional development. This training guide consists of ten modules. Each module offers ways to enhance skills and knowledge related to consumer education and parent, family, and community engagement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Program staff members find opportunities to build relationships and support families in their work every day. Lead agencies are adapting their outreach practices and...
Your family's financial, education, and employment needs and goals may change during emergencies and natural disasters. Explore these tip sheets to learn how early care...
Families' financial, education, employment, and career needs and goals may change during emergencies and natural disasters. In these tip sheets, early care and...
Watch this webinar to learn more about Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff. This training guide offers information that Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agency personnel, subsidy staff...
Watch this brief overview of the relationship-based competencies, or the RBCs, to learn more about the knowledge, skills, and individual practices that early childhood professionals-in every role-need to engage and...
Watch this brief overview of the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework for Early Childhood Systems and related resources for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead agencies, their disseminating networks, state administrators,...
Consumer education and engagement drive quality when informed, equipped, and engaged families influence and improve early childhood (EC) and school-age care and education systems and settings.
During this webinar, the National Center on Parent,...
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) regulations require States, Territories, and Tribes to explain in their CCDF plans how they will provide outreach (i.e., increase awareness of available services) and promote the use of services among eligible families including those with limited...
Effective outreach promotes families' awareness of, access to, and use of early childhood care and education and comprehensive services. States,...
