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Tri-County Child & Family Development is your partner in healthy child development.
Established the same year as the national Head Start program, in 1965, Tri-County Child & Family works locally.
Children and their parents cannot achieve their full potential if they struggle with day to day issues. Obstacles may include lack of access to medical care or a major family crisis.
We empower families to help themselves by providing Building Blocks for Success:
• Health Services
• Social Services
• Nutritious Meals
• Parent Involvement
• Early Childhood Education
The parents are the first teachers, so we need to get to know the parents, aunts, uncles or whoever is raising the child.
They know their child best so they can let us know what to expect, and what the goals are for the entire family. That's why we involve parents and other caregivers in decisions.
Tri-County Child and Family Development programs serve families with children from birth through school age as well as families expecting a child.
VALUES: BELIEFS ABOUT FAMILIES &
PRINCIPLES FOR PARTNERING WITH FAMILIES
The statement of our beliefs about families and the principles of partnering with families are fundamental principles of Tri-County Child & Development Council, Inc. The staff developed these principles during the 2007 – 2008 program year.
Beliefs About Families:
- Families are the basic unit of society.
- Families have strengths.
- Families love their children.
- Families want their children to grow as happy and healthy as possible.
- Families have values, goals, wants, dreams, hopes and desires.
- Families are the first and most important teacher of their children.
- Families want to be advocates for their children.
- Families are empowered and are capable of becoming more empowered.
- Families are interdependent and build relationships within and without the family.
- Families are unique.
Principles For Partnering With Families:
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We will value, encourage and support our families.
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We will strive to engage families in being actively involved in programming.
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We will regard parents as valuable members of the team.
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We will strive to assist families and their children grow to be as happy and healthy as possible.
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We will be on time, prepared and flexible.
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We will respectfully hold ourselves and our families accountable.
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We will be active listeners.
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We will maintain confidentiality and be patient and courteous professionals.
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We will strive to communicate effectively, intelligently and sensitively.
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We will to be non-judgmental, empathetic, warm, and honest with ourselves and with our families.
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We will strive to be knowledgeable of community resources.
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We will strive to be aware and focused on the family’s point of view.
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We will document the work of the partnership appropriately and confidentially.
Principles for Partnerships:
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We believe creating opportunities for Head Start enrolled families to have access to programs and services that already exist is an appropriate use of community resources.
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We believe where programs and services do not exist that creating those services by
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combining resources with existing services makes good business sense.
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We believe by working together services for children and families in the Cedar Valley
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area will be enhanced.
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