Family Engagement by

Surveys/Feedback (e.g., Child and Family Outcomes)

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Focus groups

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HEICC opportunities to serve

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Workgroups (e.g., APR/SSIP, CPSD)

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Family Engagement contract to provide stipends to participate

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CSHNB Mo‘olelo project

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Providers are informed of events, trainings, etc. (e.g., SPIN Conference) and this can be relayed to families as well.

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Family Hui participants share their stories and experiences in their small groups—sometimes families enrolled in Family Hui can network and learn about EI services from each other.

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In Hilo- there’s a bulletin board section where everyone just posts flyers for sharing information. (no social media due to lack of phone connection).

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Per the Family Outcome Survey feedback, families are satisfied with their services and are engaged in visits. However, not necessarily engaged/participatory at the systems level.

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Encourage smooth transitions and services to help families transition to other programs.

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Providers are informed of events, trainings, etc. (e.g., SPIN Conference) though this information isn’t always consistently relayed to families for participation.

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Families may have difficulty structuring their lives in order to access services (i.e., it may not be a priority to receive/access services, due to other challenges occurring in their lives).

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Government services are structured to end when the workday ends, which could restrict how families are accessing services (e.g., weekends).

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What would have been most meaningful for you (as a parent) when receiving EI services?

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*Provider parents in this small group felt that they were satisfied with the services they received while in the parent role.

*Families may not have been aware of services they could access beyond 3 years old (besides DOE Special Education/transition options).

We need more support and conversations from our families to identify the needs beyond child development (e.g., families accessing resources).

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We don’t have a dedicated Family Engagement workgroup, and we need to have proper representation with different voices from different groups.

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If thinking about a commitment policy or exploring expanding family engagement, emphasize that you’re looking for the true reciprocal partnership (e.g., not a power leaning towards the provider/program).

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Transparency—all of the information comes out best when building relationships with families.

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Meet often when building a group; focus groups need to also create the space to receive feedback.

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Consider informing families from the beginning (e.g., intake meeting) about family engagement opportunities such as surveys, HEICC and focus groups.

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Collaboration with more agencies.

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Parent to parent support network—for EI families who want to network with other families who are also receiving services. Consider polling families on their interest in networking with other families in EI; how to connect them while still maintaining confidentiality through EI. Mentoring could also look like previous EI families sharing information (about transition, resources) with new/soon-to-Exit EI families.

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We need to have a dedicated Family Engagement workgroup, with proper representation with different voices from different groups.

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*Review at a future workgroup meeting: Family Partnership Guidelines for Early Learning Settings- developed in 2012. EI should have a copy of this and was able to review it. It contains 6 principles.