At its heart, the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework is all about supporting families to build key protective factors that enable children to thrive. Protective factors are characteristics or strengths that promote positive well-being and healthy development. Most often, we see them as attributes that help families successfully navigate difficult situations.

The Protective Factors Framework is a research-based approach to working with families that focuses on their strengths, and encourages the growth of five Protective Factors: parental resilience, knowledge of parenting and child development, social and emotional competence of children, social connections, and concrete support in times of need.

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