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Better Together Family Cafes

Nemours Children's Health

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July 11, 2024

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As a child care provider, you are dedicated to the health and well-being of children. While the care that you provide for these children is crucial, their interactions and experiences at home are just as important. Having a strong relationship with families can have a positive impact on the well-being of those in your care. Our partners at Nemours have developed Better Together Family Cafes as an effective family engagement model.  

 

What Are Family Cafes 

Family cafés are not a physical space or building, but an approach to creating environments where parents and primary caregivers feel safe to engage with each other on focused topics affecting their children and families. 

The Better Together Family Cafés consist of five guided discussions with families on nutrition and physical activity topics, including: 

  • Building HOPE and Resilience Together 
  • Active Families, Active Children 
  • Cooking Up Healthy Lifestyles 
  • Creating Memories at Mealtime 
  • Managing Screen Time in a Technology World. 

These Family Cafés promote positive, experience-based approaches and practices in ECE settings and strengthen ECE program and family relationships. The Better Together Family Cafés can be used in partnership with ECE programs as a family engagement tool, or they can be used separately with a group of families a trainer or consultant is already supporting in other ways. 

The Better Together Family Café Sessions include: 

  • Guided conversations to share information with family members and to engage them in meaningful conversations. 
  • Tools to encourage participants to reflect on what was learned and how to incorporate learnings into daily life. 
  • Nutrition and physical activity resources to support continuing engagement with families. 

 

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