Family and Community Resources
The goal of the Family and Community Resources Practices Laboratory is to investigate the characteristics and consequences of resource-based intervention practices promoting the flow of informal supports and resources influencing different aspects of parent and family functioning. A resource-based approach to early childhood intervention and family support places primary emphasis on the kinds of information, advice, material assistance, and other types of support provided by family, friends, neighbors, community members, and other social network members. A resource-based approach to early childhood intervention and family support differs from a service-based approach to intervention by: (1) focusing on child and family assets (e.g., interests & strengths) rather than deficits, (2) using a combination of informal and formal resources rather than relying primarily on formal resources for accomplishing family desired outcomes, (3) emphasizing the use of community-based rather than professionally-centered resources for helping families achieve desired outcomes, (4) responding to child and family preferences and priorities rather than prescribing solutions to family problems, and (5) developing expandable, renewable resources that build and strengthen child, family, and community capacity. A major focus of laboratory studies and initiatives is the identification and study of the operational characteristics of a resource-based model that contributes to positive child, parent, and family consequences (CASEinPoint, Volume 1, Number 5 and CASEmakers, Volume 1, Number 5).
Learn more about the Family and Community Resources Practices Laboratory studies and initiatives by clicking on any of the following titles:
- Characteristics and Consequences of Resource-Based Intervention Practices
- Delphi Study of Resource-Based Intervention Practices Characteristics
- Resource-Based Intervention Practices Research Syntheses
- Case Studies of the Characteristics and Consequences of Resource-Based Intervention Practices
- Characteristics and Consequences of Resource-Based Intervention Practices in a Rural Early Head Start Program
- Resource-Based Intervention Practices Training Study
- Pathways to the Arts Evaluation Study
