Strengthening Families

Helping Georgia Families Thrive By Building Parenting Skills

Raising children is a huge responsibility that isn’t always easy. We all experience challenges and stresses from time to time that makes parenting difficult. Strengthening Families helps you better understand your strengths and offers additional skills and strategies to help you parent more effectively, enabling your whole family to thrive.

Strengthening Families, a research-informed approach and framework built around Five Protective Factors by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), has proven to increase family strengths, reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect, and promote optimal child development so families can be happy and safe.

Georgia’s children need strong, healthy families who can provide for their physical, social and emotional, and development needs. It’s why Quality Care for Children is providing parents with the Five Protective Factors information and tools to hone your skills below as well as monthly parenting tips and articles through our Georgia Parents Power mobile messages. Simply text GeorgiaParent to 877-255-4254 to begin receiving alerts when a new article is published.

Strengthening Families Georgia (SFG) Five Protective Factors

Parent Resilience: is the ability to bounce back from difficult experiences and even be strengthened by them.
Knowledge of Child Development: helps parents understand how children grow and learn so that they can parent better.
Social & Emotional Competence of Children: provides parents with the needed skills to aid their children in communicating clearly, regulating their emotions and developing relationships.
Social Connections: encourages parents to build a network including family, friends, and community where they receive and give support.
Concrete Support in Times of Need: are resources and services families can turn to when they are in need of basic economic supports, in domestic or mental crisis, or just need help for stability.