SFTCCC: Overloaded Families & Risk Factors in Your Community |
Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities Survey
Children thrive when they have regular interactions with responsive, caring adults. Families experiencing significant stressors related to financial insecurity, housing instability, or the impact of systemic racism and interpersonal trauma can be overloaded with stress, interrupting those interactions. Families that are experiencing this overload of stress are at greater risk for having neglect identified as a threat to their child(ren)’s safety.
The Institute for Child and Family Well-Being's Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities (SFTCCC) initiative is focused on preventing family separation for reasons of neglect by building community around the root causes of neglect in Wisconsin. One key aspect of this effort is understanding the biggest challenges families face in our communities. During our SFTCCC round tables some themes have started to emerged about the most significant risk factors for neglect.
We want to continue to build a shared understanding of this complex challenge by inviting feedback on which are the most pressing challenges you face in your community that contributes to overloading families. Please take a moment to complete this anonymous survey to share your perspective.
The ICFW will be compiling these results, along with feedback gathered during our SFTCCC round tables, to co-create critical pathways to advance practice innovations, policy change, and systems focused solutions.