Part Four: Using Community Resources to Support the Child and Family
(2c: Use community resources to support young children’s learning and development and support families, and build partnerships between early learning settings, schools, and community organizations and agencies).
- After the interview with the community specialist, review the available services/resources and discuss how you would share this information with the family. Identify one high-quality “already made” resource that you would share with the family. It must be a resource that you collected from the agency visited. It can be an article, a handout, a brochure, a pamphlet format, etc. Explain why you selected this resource for the family. Be sure to mention how it represents and acknowledges what you know about the child/family and how it can meet the family’s needs. Scan or take a photograph of the document and insert it into this part of the project.
- Provide a list with detailed descriptions (name, location, contact information, website) of other community agencies/resources that would be beneficial to the family. These might include information about community cultural resources, mental health services, early childhood special education, early intervention services, assistance resources, economic assistance resources, etc.
- Draft an email to the family. In the email, thank them for their time and support in your research. In the email, include the community resource you gathered from the community specialist/agency. Also include the list of other community agencies and resources that would be beneficial to the family. Include a copy of the email in your project submission
