Strong and healthy families are the backbone of Jay County, but raising children can be a challenge.We want to give parents the tools they need to raise healthy and happy children.
We will help families grow stronger from the inside out by offering supportive learning opportunities that promote the following Strengthening Families’ five Protective Factors:
•Parental Resilience.
•Social Connections.
•Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development.
•Concrete Support in Times of Need.
•Social and Emotional Competence of Children.
Update from Meeting held Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 9am at The Portland Foundation.
Parenting Skills – Tashia Weaver shared that the parenting Café concept is now spearheaded by the Prevent Child Abuse Council. Other parenting programs currently offered are Safe Sitter, Safe Sleep, and All Pro Dads.
What common challenge are we addressing collectively?
The Goals
What are our common goals?
The Work
What are the catalytic projects?
The Metrics
What are the shared metrics we want to improve?
The Outcomes
What community level difference is made?
Jay County helps families grow stronger from the inside out by offering supportive learning opportunities that promote:
- Parental Resilience.
- Social Connections.
- Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development.
- Concrete Support in Times of Need.
- Social and Emotional Competence of Children.
Jay County families have the parenting skills, knowledge of child development, and resources they need to thrive and address challenges they face based on the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors framework and instances of child abuse and neglect decline.
Provide universally available training and educational sessions to families normalizing the need for parent support and education. Specific programs will be designed after testing models such as Safe Sitter® and Parent Cafes.
Number of participants that complete the sessions.
Number of participants that respond positively to a TBD percentage of the end-of-program, evaluation questions.
Number of participants that stay connected to at least one community partner after program completion.
Number of sub-stantiated DCS cases.
As parents, foster parents, and other family caregivers are confidently and effectively leading their families, there are fewer problems with chronic absenteeism and higher academic performance of children in school. There are fewer confirmed cases of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. Fewer children and adults become victims of substance abuse.
The Grand Challenge
What common challenge are we addressing collectively?
Jay County helps families grow stronger from the inside out by offering supportive learning opportunities that promote:
- Parental Resilience.
- Social Connections.
- Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development.
- Concrete Support in Times of Need.
- Social and Emotional Competence of Children.
The Goals
What are our common goals?
Jay County families have the parenting skills, knowledge of child development, and resources they need to thrive and address challenges they face based on the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors framework and instances of child abuse and neglect decline.
The Work
What are the catalytic projects?
Provide universally available training and educational sessions to families normalizing the need for parent support and education. Specific programs will be designed after testing models such as Safe Sitter® and Parent Cafes.
The Metrics
What are the shared metrics we want to improve?
Number of participants that complete the sessions.
Number of participants that respond positively to a TBD percentage of the end-of-program, evaluation questions.
Number of participants that stay connected to at least one community partner after program completion.
Number of sub-stantiated DCS cases.
The Outcomes
What community level difference is made?
As parents, foster parents, and other family caregivers are confidently and effectively leading their families, there are fewer problems with chronic absenteeism and higher academic performance of children in school. There are fewer confirmed cases of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. Fewer children and adults become victims of substance abuse.
