PRINCIPALS OF FAMILY SUPPORT

From Family Resource Coalition of America's Guidelines for Family Support Practice.

1) Staff enhances families' capacity to support the growth and development of all family members – adults, youth, and children.

2) Practitioners work with families to mobilize formal and informal resources to support family development

3) Programs affirm and strengthen families' cultural, racial and linguistic identities and enhance their ability to function in a multicultural society.

4) Programs advocate with families for services and systems that are fair, responsive and accountable to the families served.

5) Staff and families work together in relationships based on equality and respect.

6) Programs are flexible and continually responsive to emerging family and community issues.

7) Families are resources to their own members, to other families, to programs, and to communities.

8) Programs are embedded in their communities and contribute to the community-building process.

9) Principles of family support are modeled in all program activities, including planning, governance, and administration.