The following resources are intended to assist and strengthen grantee work.

Re-visioning Case Management: Partnerting with Families and Communities to create Meaningful Change is designed to spark discussions and encourage exploration of a comprehensive approach to engage families, organizations, and communities in ways that bring about meaningful and enduring chang.

Reflections of executive directors and program staff of Family Resource Centers statewide who have directly engaged with children and families over the last 10 years.

Family Resource Centers: Vehicles for Change / Centros de Recursos Familiares: Vehiculos Para el Cambio A publication that defines and describes the key characteristics and activities of quality family resource centers.

Principles and Premises of Family Support Offers guidelines for family support practices that serve as the foundation of a quality family resource center.

California Budget Project Provides California policy updates and information.

ChildNet Results Manager/Children’s Network of Solano County Provides information about ChildNet Results Manager, a Microsoft ACCESS database application designed to help human services agencies evaluate the effectiveness of their programs, assess gaps in services, and increase their capacity.

Efforts to Outcomes/Social Solutions Provides information about a human services software system that enables agency staff to track client information, generate graphical reporting and demonstrate the effects of their efforts on program outcomes.

Matrix Evaluation Model Provides information about the Matrix Evaluation Model, an outcomes measurement and strengths-based case management tool for measuring family progress and service effectiveness.

MetSYS Provides information about MetSYS technological products to support family-serving organizations.

Parent Leadership Action Network Promotes Bay Area parent engagement in schools.

Pathways Mapping Initiative Supports best practices for achieving school readiness and family economic success.

Strategies/Office of Child Abuse Prevention Provides technical assistance and training to family resource centers.

If you have any other links, documents or additional information that you think would be helpful to our colleagues in the Family Support field, please send the information to maisano@shcowell.org. Thank you!