Family Well-Being for the Greater Good: A science-based workbook for people supporting parents
Parenting is a collective effort made by a community of caregivers, including you, a parenting practitioner–a parent educator, social worker, faith leader, nurse practitioner, physician, psychologist, school-based parent and family engagement specialist, counselor, or other community worker or professional serving families. The mix of ease and hardship in our work requires that we, as practitioners, are nurtured, too. Our social and emotional well-being is intricately connected to our ability to support the well-being of the parents and children we work with. What’s more, the well-being of our community both gives rise to and depends on the well-being of parents, children, and families as well as our well-being.
This workbook offers parenting practitioners practical lessons and activities to help the reader prioritize cultivating your social and emotional well-being while additionally supporting you in sharing these insights and practices with the parents and families you serve. We wrote this workbook for a range of practitioners who support parents and caregivers of children between preschool and high school. You will find this workbook includes the voices of parenting practitioners across a variety of roles and settings to help you identify where to integrate these resources within your work.
