Strengthening Families
Protective Factors
Applying the Results
Topeka, Kansas
Kansas State Coordinators’ Meeting
Nancy Keel, MS Ed, P-3 National Trainer
Executive Director, Kansas Parents as Teachers Association
Coordinator, Olathe PAT
Program Director, Kansas City Area PAT Consortium
September 10, 2013
Build Adult Capabilities
Improve Child Outcomes
• http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources
/multimedia/videos/theory_of_change/
• Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University
• Find the Protective Factors imbedded in this
video
How is it going with the
Protective Factors and the PFS?
• How many are feeling comfortable with the PF
and the PFS?
• Are the scores of the PFS helping you as a parent
educator?
• Are the PFS scores helping the parent educators
you work with plan and set goals . . .
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visits,
group connections,
child screenings,
family goals,
resource referrals?
Protective Factor Survey
Review
• Fill out the Protective factor Survey for
yourself.
Objectives
• Implementation of the survey with parents or
guardians in the PAT Curriculum
• Interpretation/Scoring of the screening once
completed
• Family Goal setting with PFS
• Increase individual family protective factors
Embedding the Protective Factors
into the PAT Curriculum
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Foundational Curriculum pp. 41-46
Foundational PV #2, #7 – Intro to family
Tool Kit Card page 17 & 18
PVR: Family strengths and protective factors
discussed: check the one discussed and make
comments relevant to the protective factor(s).
Group Connection Planner and Record
Group Connection Feed Back Form
Screening – knowledge of child development
Parenting Behaviors – knowledge of parenting
Protective Factors’ Vocabulary
• Parental Resilience: being strong and flexible
• Social Connections: parents need friends
• Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: being a
great parent is part experience and part learned
• Concrete Support: we all need help sometimes
• Social Emotional Development of Children: help your children
communicate and give them the love and respect they need.
• http://www.slideshare.net/211Broward/five-protectivefactors. Many examples of words and open ended questions
Calculating Subscale Scores
FSS Toolkit, pages 46-47
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Resiliency: Items 1-5
Social Support: Items 6, 7, 10
Concrete Support: Items 8, 9, 11
Nurturing and Attachment: Items 17, 18, 19, and
20
• Child Development/Knowledge of Parenting:
Items 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• (More specific scoring found on pages 46 and 47)
The Strengthening Families
Approach
• Benefits ALL families
• Builds on family strengths, buffers risk, and
promotes better outcomes
• Can be implemented through small but
significant changes in everyday actions
• Builds on and can become part of existing
programs, strategies, systems and
community opportunities
• Is grounded in research, practice and
implementation knowledge
Protective Factor Survey
• Survey results provide
– A snapshot of the families you serve
– Changes in protective factors
– Areas where parent educators can focus on
increasing individual family protective factors
• Survey results are not:
– Individual assessments
– Used for placement
– Used for diagnostic purposes
Five Protective Factors
PARENTAL RESILIENCE
SOCIAL CONNECTIONS
KNOWLEDGE of PARENTING
and CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CONCRETE SUPPORT in
TIMES of NEED
SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL
COMPETENCE of CHILDREN