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| How Can Family and Neighborhood Assessments Support Healthy Family and Community Development? In this edition, we look at innovative strategies to understand both the family and neighborhood environments in which young children grow up. Family and neighborhood assessment strategies abound at the local level – yet the information is often collected by distinctive organizations, and is too rarely utilized to paint an integrated picture of families and the neighborhoods in which they live. This broader understanding of the overall environment is critical for helping children truly be "free to grow".
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 EQUIPO
The EQUIPO family assessment tool was originally developed to support the comprehensive community-based family support work of the Abriendo Puertas Family Center in East Little Havana, Miami, Florida. The assessment tool is administered as part of their system of service delivery. This system is designed to foster collaboration between trained informal helpers, called Madrinas and Padrinos, and local social service professionals. Read more>>
| Family Assessment Tool
Case management staff at Lincoln Action Program in Lincoln, Nebraska, utilize a validated Family Assessment Tool (FAT) to create a profile of each family's strengths and to identify areas where the family may have a need for services or support. The FAT is a holistic instrument, which allows the caseworker and the family to look at issues that may be present in 21 different life domains. Read more>>
| Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies
The concept of using a "neighborhood revitalization" approach to address quality of life issues including crime and safety and nuisance abatement has a long history in the US. A comprehensive neighborhood revitalization framework utilizes crime prevention strategies including "opportunity blocking," targeting of "hot spots" and addressing both supply side and demand side factors that facilitate criminal activity. Read more>>
|  | |  | Cathy Wamsley, Executive Director and Cheryl Price, Family and Community Development Director
Umatilla-Morrow Head Start
talk about the importance of family and neighborhood assessment and how it can support families and communities. Read more>>
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