Strategies
Our Selected Strategies
All of our programs are UNIVERSAL: designed for the entire population without regard to individual risk factors
All of our programs are also available to families at NO COST to the family and fixed cost per community (through grants, cities, businesses or a collaborative effort). We believe it is important to serve all families regardless of race, income, family make-up, values or risk factors. By moving into a selective or indicated level we would actually be encouraging families to move to or remain in those categories in order to remain qualified. Our goal is to motivate and empower families to move beyond the risk factors, not stay in them.
The Social Development Strategy
View 1 of Social Development Strategy and
the Discovery Family Adventures
This diagram shows how the different components of the Discovery Family Adventures are literally the social development strategy in action.
View 2 of Social Development Strategy and
the Discovery Family Adventures
Discovery Family Adventure components deliver the social development strategy in all 4 key domains: family, school, community and the individual.
The Protective Factors Framework
to Promote Well-Being and Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect
Protective Factors Framework
Protective Factors for PARENTS: Providing parents with the supports they need to avoid poor family management and family conflict. Strong families begin with parents who are prepared and able to create a nurturing environment.
Find specific details on each factor HERE
Protective Factors Conversation Starters
Start a conversation about protective factors in your community outreach or in your personal social media networks with GIFs. Share a GIF and pair it with a message about strengthening family protective capacities. For more information on how to engage caregivers in personalized conversations about protective factors, check out our Conversation Guides!
Share the Protective Factors Conversation Guide GIFs below to help educate and raise awareness about protective factors for parents.
The GIFs include a play and pause button to help accommodate all audiences. To share these GIFs, download the file or press play and then right-click to copy and paste into the platform of your choice.
Our Vision: A future free of the death and disease caused by tobacco
Our goal in incorporating this first ever evidence-based program to prevent vaping among our youth is to save lives and create healthier communities by:
Mobilizing organizations and individuals to join the efforts to educate and encourage kids to choose to live drug free,
Empowering a tobacco-free generation by fostering youth leadership and resilience,
Informing the public, policy makers and the media about tobacco's devastating consequences,
Expose and counter tobacco industry efforts to market to children and mislead the public,
Promote public policies and provide families with resources proven to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.
CATCH Health at Home
Health at Home Resources for Parents and Teachers
Resources integrated into the Discovery Family Adventures, prevention messaging, and promoted throughout the network
Health at Home Resources for Parents and Teachers in Spanish
Also available in Spanish
Pyramid Model Consortium
The Discovery Family Adventures and it's components focus on empowering parents to learn to build nurturing and responsive relationships with their children and create high quality supportive environments. We seek to provide targeted social emotional supports from our many coalition partners to help parents and families be the very best they can be and achieve their full potential. If you have resources to support families in this all-important quest, please join the Discovery Family Coalition HERE.
QPR Training
Coalition members chose to support efforts to deliver QPR training to families and coalition partners in our area. Several members of the coalition offer these trainings on a regular basis in some of our grant areas. However, if you are an organization that provides these trainings in your area we would love to help you promote your trainings. Please let us know and join the coalition HERE.
Investing in Prevention Makes Good Financial Sense
https://nida.nih.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2022/04/investing-in-prevention-makes-good-financial-sense