Watch this video to learn more about Strong Roots
To be successful, children need emotional safety and strong connections, or Strong Roots. We use the metaphor of a tree to illustrate how, like trees, we all need strong roots to grow, branch out, and thrive. When parents meet their children’s needs for nurture and support, it builds and strengthens those roots, ensuring that children have what is needed for health and well-being. Our Strong Roots Programs recognize that parents also have needs for connection and support, and our programming strives to both meet parents’ own needs for support as they reflect on their experiences, and to encourage parents as they grow the skills and tools they can use to promote their own and their children’s health and wellbeing.
We believe that Strong Roots concepts are the universal foundation of all responsive service delivery systems that touch the lives of pregnant women and families with children age 0-6. By focusing on developing strong relationships, we inspire and support resilience in children, parents, service providers, communities, and the efficacy of systems.
Group-Based Programs to Support Families and Caregivers of Young Children
LOGIC MODEL
The Strong Roots Programs include five pillars, or core components:
The long-term outcome of these core components is to provide enhanced protective factors for families with young children. This includes an increased knowledge of parenting and child development, strengthened child social-emotional competence, increased social connections, improved access to concrete support in times of need, and strengthened parent and family resiliency.
The Strong Roots (SR) Full Model includes a multifamily group with 10 group sessions and three individual sessions with participants that delivers the curriculum with full model fidelity. Each of the flagship programs has a fully developed and tested model with established training curriculum.
Strong Roots (SR) Principles and Practices trainings allow organizations to identify specific needs that are addressed via short, targeted trainings and consultations that quickly infuse the SR concepts and skills necessary to promote resiliency in pregnant women and families with young children.
Strong Roots (SR) Encounters are very short (1-1.5 hour) Lunch and Learns, conference presentations, parent cafe, and consultations that present a specific SR concept that an organization identifies a need, a topic for training, and skill building.
Mom Power uses The Tree as a metaphor to illustrate how parents can support young children’s social emotional development. Watch this brief video to learn about the Tree and how it can help parents recognize and understand young children’s behavior!
The Wondering and Response Wheel can help parents respond to children’s behavior and feelings in a way that addresses their needs and supports their positive emotional growth and development. Watch this brief video to learn how to use the Wondering Response Wheel!
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or another important adult, your child looks to you to figure out how to navigate the world. Zero To Thrive advocates for balanced caregiving, or responses to children that are warm and kind and strong and in charge. This brief video provides a more detailed explanation of balanced caregiving.
Please contact us if you are a professional looking for training or a parent looking for a group.