Family Star (Early Years)
For parents of young children (0 to 5 years)
Who is the Family Star (Early Years) for?
The Family Star (Early Years) has been developed for parents of young children and is recommended for use where parents are receiving one to one support in brief or relatively light touch interventions.
Parenting can be challenging and the Family Impact Star (Early Years) helps parents and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like physical health, emotional well-being and child development, and give clarity on where to focus next.
- What other Family Stars are available?
The Family Star (Early Years) is one of a suite of Stars for the family. Family Star (Relationships) is a variant focused on protecting children from conflict between parents. Family Star and Family Star Plus are for parents to help support children to thrive. Family Impact Star (Addictions) is for people impacted by the addictive behaviour of someone close to them.
You may also want to consider My Star which can be used to capture the voice of the child, their needs and perspective.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Family Star (Early Years) Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Family Star (Early Years) work?
The Family Star (Early Years) covers seven key outcome areas that help people to parent effectively, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they may need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Physical health
Emotional wellbeing
Keeping your children safe
Social networks
Boundaries and routines
Child development
Home, money and work
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Accepting help
03
Believing and trying
04
Learning what works
05
Effective parenting
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The Family Star (Early Years) was developed in collaboration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Early Help and Children’s Centres Services. In addition we also collaborated with Camden Council Children’s Schools and Families (CSF) Directorate, Family Action, Hampshire local authority parenting services and the collective of Camden family services and consultant-parents, who helped make the original Family Star possible.
