Father Engagement Strategies
Explore ways to engage fathers in children's development. These quick strategies can enhance father engagement efforts in early childhood programs.
Family engagement is a collaborative and strengths-based process through which early childhood professionals, families, and children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. It is a shared responsibility of families and staff at all levels that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer. Family engagement focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive relationship-building with key family members in a child’s life. These people include pregnant women and expectant families, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and other adult caregivers. It requires making a commitment to creating and sustaining an ongoing partnership that supports family well-being. It also honors and supports the parent-child relationships that are central to a child’s healthy development, school readiness, and well-being. The Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework is a guide to learning how family engagement promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities.
Explore ways to engage fathers in children's development. These quick strategies can enhance father engagement efforts in early childhood programs.
Watch this webinar series to learn ways to partner with parents and families to help their children develop language and literacy skills.
This standard requires programs to promote shared responsibility with parents for children’s early learning and development and offer opportunities to participate in a research-based parenting curriculum.
Head Start programs must integrate parent and family engagement strategies into all systems and program services to support family well-being and promote children’s learning and development.
Head Start programs recognize parents’ roles as children’s first and lifelong teachers. Review requirements for engaging parents and family members in the program's education services and policy implementation.
This three-part webinar series focuses on effective and intentional father engagement. Learn how engaging fathers promotes children’s learning and development and strengthens the parent-child relationship.