Children, Youth, and Families At Risk
CYFAR
Building Communities with Strong Families
Healthy human development requires strong, nurturing families who are supported by their community. Efforts at building community help support families by developing and sustaining strong relationships, increasing community decision making, and improving the ability to collaborate. The African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” has become a These materials are designed for communities wanting to start new efforts and for those who wish to strengthen what they are already doing. They serve as a guide for policy making and practice and for orienting professionals and citizens to community building. |
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download Building Communities with Strong Families, 64 pages
Table of Contents
- Leader’s guide with suggested training activities for different audiences:
- Presentation 1: Community Building
- Presentation 2: Collaboration, Empowerment, and Citizen Participation
- Presentation 3: Building a Pyramid of Support
- Presentation 4: Risk and Change
- Presentation 5: Promoting Citizen Participation
- Presentation 6: Moving to the Next Level
- Presentation 7: What Am I?
- Presentation 8: Focusing on Outcomes
- Presentation 9: To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate
- Master for the fact sheet Overview with a self-assessment of current efforts
- Master for the fact sheet Questions and Answers
- Master for the fact sheet Promoting Citizen Participation
- Master for the fact sheet Planning Together: Approaches to
- Community Assessment and Action Planning
- Master for the fact sheet Sustaining the Journey: Moving
- Collaboration to the Next Level
- Master for the fact sheet Examples from the Field
- Visual masters numbers 1 to 5
- Videotape Building Communities with Strong Families, was distributed to all ISU county Extension offices