Standards Resource Guide
FAMILY STRENGTHENING
Trainings
Utilizing a family strengthening approach to support families to be strong, healthy, and safe, thereby promoting their success and optimal development.
Protective Factors Training
Offered by FRIENDS
https://friendsnrcelearning.remote-learner.net/
Free
Protective Factors, Strengthening Families and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
FRIENDS Free Online Learning Center Course on Protective Factors
Online Resources
Financial Health Institute
Offered by Financial Health Institute
https://financialhealthinstitute.org/
Financial Well-Being Learning Environment
This collection of courses provides learners with financial health education for personal growth. Individual course prices range from $9 – $49 each
Financial Health for Professionals
This collection of courses is for people who are helping others to improve their financial health. Professional courses are priced at $29 each
Online self-led E-Learning. Offers courses for both Individuals & Families and Professionals.
Financial Health Institute explores, creates and delivers education so that people develop their potential, ability, and dignity. Offers online self-led E-learning for:
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Individuals & Families
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Professionals
Ages and Stages
Offered by ASQ - Ages & Stages Questionnaires
Less than $500 (ASQ-3 Starter Kit: $295)
ASQ, the trusted screener that unlocks critical knowledge about young children’s development and helps you give all kids the best start in life. If you’re a new ASQ user, this is your one-stop welcome center for learning all about the screener and how it can strengthen your work with children and families.
PBS for Parents
Offered by PBS Kids for Parents
Free
This website is full of resources and information that specifically supports families in engaging the whole family in the child's learning. Play is an important part of this. You can select from several topics, such as science, literacy, social skills and character, and organize resources by what the child's central interests are.
Protective Factors: Strengthening Families
Offered by FRIENDS
https://friendsnrc.org/friends-resources/online-learning-center/
Free - Designed for CBCAP State Lead Agencies and their grantees and others interested in prevention work.
The FRIENDS Online Learning Center (OLC) is a resource designed to meet the demands of providing high quality, subject-specific training free of charge for CBCAP State Lead Agencies and their grantees and others interested in prevention work. The Online Learning Center is designed to offer accessible continuing education and professional development opportunities that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Strengthening Families
Offered by Center for the Study of Social Policy
Free
Downloadable Report: The purpose of this report is to provide a synthesis of the ideas and research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences that further inform the evidence-base of CSSP’s Strengthening Families Approach and Protective Factors Framework.
Help Me Grow: Strengthening Families and Supporting Caregiver Goals
Offered by Center for the Study of Social Policy
https://cssp.org/resource/help-me-grow-stregthening-families-supporting-caregiver-goals/
Free
This report describes how the Help Me Grow Model aligns with Strengthening Families. It includes updated (2023) definitions of the protective factors and core values of the Strengthening Families approach.
Protective Factors Action Sheets
Offered by Center for the Study of Social Policy
https://cssp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ProtectiveFactorsActionSheets.pdf
Free
This packet includes the research brief about each protective factor as well as an “action sheet” for service providers about their role in supporting families to build each protective factor. The action sheets include what to look for, questions to ask and activities to do with parents related to each protective factor.
Protective Factors Survey
Offered by FRIENDS
https://friendsnrc.org/evaluation/protective-factors-survey/
Free - Designed to help agencies and programs better assess changes in family protective factors.
Designed for use with parents and caregivers participating in family support and child maltreatment prevention services. The survey is intended to help agencies and programs better assess changes in family protective factors.
Parents as Teachers
Offered by Parents As Teachers
https://parentsasteachers.org/
Free
Internationally recognized evidence-based early childhood parent education and family support program.
Empathy vs. Sympathy
Offered by Brené Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBTYViDPlQ
Free
Video by Brené Brown on Empathy vs Sympathy.
Books & Articles
The 5 Love Languages of Children
Offered by Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell
The 5 Love Languages of Children
Paperback - $11.99 | Kindle - $8.07
• Discover your child’s love language
• Assist your child in successful learning
• Use the love languages to correct and discipline more effectively • Build a foundation of unconditional love for your child
• Plus: Find dozens of tips for practical ways to speak your child’s love language.
Discover your child's primary language—then speak it—and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.
The Whole Brain Child
Offered by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Paperback - $12.99 | Kindle - $13.99 | Spiral Bound - $24.93
A revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.
No Dram Discipline
Offered by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Paperback - $12.49 | Kindle - $13.99
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.
The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles
Offered by Karen Reivich
The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles
Paperback - $14.49 | Kindle - $12.99 | Hardcover - $34.28
The science in The Resilience Factor takes an extraordinary leap from the research introduced in the bestselling Learned Optimism a decade ago. Just as hundreds of thousands of people were transformed by "flexible optimism," readers of this book will flourish, thanks to their enhanced ability to overcome obstacles of any kind. Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté are seasoned resilience coaches and, through practical methods and vivid anecdotes, they prove that resilience is not just an ability that we're born with and need to survive, but a skill that anyone can learn and improve in order to thrive.
The Orchid and the Dandelion
Offered by W. Thomas Bryce
Hardcover - $21.92 | Kindle - $11.99
A book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, and child development experts coping with difficult children.
In Tom Boyce's extraordinary new audiobook, he explores the "dandelion" child (hardy, resilient, healthy), able to survive and flourish under most circumstances, and the "orchid" child (sensitive, susceptible, fragile), who, given the right support, can thrive as much as, if not more than, other children
What Happened to You? Book Club Offering with Discussion Guide available from Children's Trust Fund Alliance
Offered by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
Paperback - $14.49 | Kindle - Free with Kindle Unlimited Membership
Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”