The Five Protective Factors Training (in-person)

Description

The Five Protective Factors training will engage participants in learning and implementing a research-informed approach to build family strengths, enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. The approach is based on engaging families, programs and communities in building five protective factors:

• Parental resilience: Managing stress and functioning well - facilitated by individual, relational, community, or societal factors - when faced with stressors, adversity or trauma
• Social connections: Developing and maintaining healthy, meaningful, trusting, and sustained relationships with people, institutions, communities, or a higher power that promote a sense of connectedness, belonging, and mattering
• Knowledge of parenting and child development: Learning about prenatal, infant, and child development, and using developmentally and contextually appropriate parenting practices
• Concrete support: Identifying, accessing, advocating for, and receiving high quality and equitable support, including the basic necessities everyone deserves and specialized services to address specific needs
• Social and emotional competence of children: Providing environments and experiences - grounded in early relational health - that build positive social skills; enable children to regulate thoughts, emotions, and behaviors; and promote effective communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Culture is understood within the framework as an essential overarching protective factor that is key to understanding how the factors are experienced within families. Participants will be encouraged to find personal connections with the protective factors in order to deepen their understanding.

Material will be presented in both large and small group formats, with ample time for discussion of how the framework can support practitioners and programs in the work they are already doing.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Develop a shared language and understanding of the Five Protective Factors Framework
• Consider how the Five Protective Factors Framework can be adapted for use in participants’ work settings and communities

Who Should Participate?

This training is applicable to everyone.

Presenter

Malcolm Gaines - Malcolm Gaines, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and currently serves as the Senior Clinical Projects Director at Safe & Sound. He has been with the organization since 2002, and has also served as Clinical Director and Director of Intern Training there. Together with his colleagues, Dr. Gaines designed Integrated Family Services at the Center in response to the need for an outcome-focused, data-informed, strength-based model of promoting protective factors in high-risk families. His clinical interests include resilience, childhood trauma, adoption, parenting and attachment, and children of divorce. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and he maintains a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco, where he has worked with children and families since 2002.

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Funding for this presentation provided in part by the San Francisco Department of Early Childhood.

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