The Family Assets offer a new lens on how communities can join together around a shared vision for supporting all families and recognizing the foundational role that strong families play in creating strong communities.
Everyone in the community plays a vital role in helping to build or reinforce Family Assets, and everyone benefits from strong families. Below are some starting points for how different sectors can use Family Assets to strengthen their connections to and support for families. Keep in mind that ideas for one sector may also be applicable or adaptable to others.
Ideas for Families – Family Assets are the everyday things families do to be strong, even in challenging times. They are the actions families take to build healthy relationships and healthy family members. Everyone—child, teen, or parenting adult—plays a role in building these assets. Includes ideas for how all families can build assets at home.
Ideas for Organizations – Ideas to help organizations that connect with families build Family Assets. Includes ideas for family-serving organizations and agencies, schools, youth-Serving organizations, faith communities, businesses and employers.
Ideas for City Leaders and Community Coalitions – Starting points for how city leaders and community coalitions can use the Family Assets framework and research to make strengthening families central to your vision for a strong community.
Ideas for Friends and Neighbors – The Family Assets framework reminds us that strong, trusting relationships with friends and neighbors are part of what makes families stronger. Ideas for how you can build Family Assets as a friend or neighbor.
Discussion Starters for Families and Those who Support Them – Includes questions you can use to explore the study and its implications for your family, families you work with, and the broader community and society.
