The advocacy action plan I have chosen is “Parent Engagement in the Early Childhood Classroom” with an advocacy focus of raising parent attendance and participation at family workshops. Parent participation is imperative to child development and success and parents have the ability to collaborate with teachers and plan for child development.
There are several resources which we can draw from that will help us further our advocacy efforts and help support us as we seek to meet our advocacy goals. These resources include early childhood professionals, the Department of Human Services (DHS), Anishnaabek Community and Family Services (ACFS), and the Office of Head Start’s Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC). Each of the resources …show more content…
According to the Michigan DHS website, “children need emotional and financial support from both parents. Even when a child's parents do not live together, it is important they work together to support and be a part of their child's life” (DHS, 2017). The website offers resources to parents, including “R U Ready? The Responsibilities of Parenting.” ACFS is the Native American version of DHS and “provides a variety of services to Native American children and their families. The goal of these services is to offer family support services to improve the circumstances of the family” (Sault Tribe, 2017). Both of these resources offer face-to-face services and allow parents to meet directly with case …show more content…
I can meet this goal by implementing several strategies; the first is teacher/parent collaboration. Teachers can work alongside parents on the first developmental assessment, this way parents can become more comfortable and understand the reasoning behind the developmental assessment. We could also reach this goal by implementing our second strategy; providing incentive to parents who complete these documents. Parents can learn a lot about their children due to the assessments and this reasoning and explanation could help struggling parents raise their children. These strategies can be categorized as educational and the resources needed to implement them are data that proves the importance of assessment data. The program I am interning at aggregates their own assessment data using different programs. This data can be the proof parents need to get on-board with parent
There are several resources which we can draw from that will help us further our advocacy efforts and help support us as we seek to meet our advocacy goals. These resources include early childhood professionals, the Department of Human Services (DHS), Anishnaabek Community and Family Services (ACFS), and the Office of Head Start’s Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC). Each of the resources …show more content…
According to the Michigan DHS website, “children need emotional and financial support from both parents. Even when a child's parents do not live together, it is important they work together to support and be a part of their child's life” (DHS, 2017). The website offers resources to parents, including “R U Ready? The Responsibilities of Parenting.” ACFS is the Native American version of DHS and “provides a variety of services to Native American children and their families. The goal of these services is to offer family support services to improve the circumstances of the family” (Sault Tribe, 2017). Both of these resources offer face-to-face services and allow parents to meet directly with case …show more content…
I can meet this goal by implementing several strategies; the first is teacher/parent collaboration. Teachers can work alongside parents on the first developmental assessment, this way parents can become more comfortable and understand the reasoning behind the developmental assessment. We could also reach this goal by implementing our second strategy; providing incentive to parents who complete these documents. Parents can learn a lot about their children due to the assessments and this reasoning and explanation could help struggling parents raise their children. These strategies can be categorized as educational and the resources needed to implement them are data that proves the importance of assessment data. The program I am interning at aggregates their own assessment data using different programs. This data can be the proof parents need to get on-board with parent