New Book Helps Parents Live the Protective Factors
By: Guy Schingoethe Sat, February 11, 2012
Parent Engagement Gets a Boost from Strengthening Families Illinois Tool
It’s a challenge for parents to make time to learn about the protective factors—and for programs to engage parents in ways that help. Here’s the missing piece: Living the Protective Factors: How Parents Keep Their Children Safe & Families Strong—a quick, inspirational guide that gives everyday tips, activities, and inspiration for living the protective factors. If you are strengthening families in your program, you already know that building the Protective Factors is a proven way to help parents meet their most basic responsibility—keeping their children safe. Now for the first time, the protective factors come to life for parents in a set of 34 concrete practices, bolstered by activities and reflection questions they can digest through in a single reading or pick up every day for quick inspiration and support. Written by Strengthening Families Illinois Executive Director Kathy Goetz Wolf, the pocket-sized, 98-page book shows how we can all awaken to our potential as parents by living the protective factors. It draws wisdom, insights, and teachings from the hundreds of Love Is Not Enough Parent Cafes delivered in Illinois.
To order hard copies for families, staff, and others, click here.