Partnership & Protective Factors Supporting Parental Resilience May 10, 2023

Learn how parents and caregivers can collaborate to strengthen and support families in difficult times. Working together, families have more resources to be strong and resilient and to provide children and youth with the love and connections they need for healthy development. Using strategies from the BFPP tools and guided by the protective factor, Parental Resilience, we will discuss how practical and thoughtful steps such as responding quickly to crisis, using empathy, validating strengths, and providing timely support can help parents become strong and resilient. These positive relationships can serve as a powerful foundation to connect parents with their own values and strengths and to help families thrive. Seeing their parents and caregivers using protective factors in their own lives can help children and youth learn to build on their own strengths and draw on their own resilience in challenging times.