Based on the
Principles of Family Support Practice and the
Strengthening Families Framework and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors, the nationally-adopted
Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support have created a common language across different kinds of Family Strengthening and Family Support programs such as Family Resource Centers, home visiting programs, and child development programs.
The Standards are used as a tool for planning, providing, and assessing quality practice by public departments, foundations, networks, community-based organizations, and families.
The Standards address 5 critical areas of practice for any Program or individual working with families - Family Centeredness, Family Strengthening, Embracing Diversity, Community Building, and Evaluation - with 17 standards, each with minimum and high quality indicators and implementation examples. The Standards and all their implementation tools are available for free download
here.
More than 9,200 people have successfully completed the Standards Certification Training in 24 states and the District of Columbia. Many more have been introduced to them through conferences, webinars, and downloading them online.
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