Training Resources
These ongoing complementing trauma-informed and protective frameworks increase collaboration and move the needle faster when implemented together at the local level.
Family Resource Center training with the Oklahoma Family Support Network
Description: “The nationally adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support are designed to be used by all Family Strengthening and Support stakeholders – public departments, foundations, community-based organizations, and families – as a tool for planning, providing, and assessing quality services. The vision is that their implementation will help ensure that families are supported and strengthened through quality practice.
The Standards create common language and expectations in the Family Support and Strengthening field across different kinds of programs, such as Family Resource Centers, home visiting programs, and child development programs.
The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support establish how two key frameworks in the Family Strengthening and Support field, the Principles of Family Support Practice developed by Family Support America and the Strengthening Families Framework and Approach developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, can be applied together programmatically. The Standards demonstrate and measure how to work with families with a family-centered, strengths-based, multigenerational approach to support them to build research-based, evidence-informed protective factors that increase family stability, enhance child development, and reduce child abuse and neglect.
The Standards, which originated in 2012, were thoroughly revised and revised in 2020 by the National Family Support Network Member Networks across the United States, parent leaders, representatives of the Family Strengthening and Support organizations in Canada. They reflect an enhanced focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion and addressing community conditions that impact families’ healthy development.