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Parent & Caregiver Cafés
Through PDG-R funding, R&R agencies have been working together to strengthen relationships with parents and caregivers in their communities. The Café experience gives participants the tools needed to increase family strength and resilience by providing an opportunity for parents and caregivers to come together to engage in meaningful, reflective conversations that promote collaboration, peer to peer engagement and empowerment. Cafés focus on different topics and themes that give parents the space and time to discuss and share their lived experiences.
During the Café experience, participants:
 gain knowledge on the Strengthening Families’ 5 Protective Factors;
 engage in conversations based on various café questions crafted from various curriculums and resources;
 make connections and form relationships with other parents and peers through interactive discussion questions.
The CCRC curriculum team has taken various training curriculum content and created café themes and conversation questions to direct participants in discussions around the intended content.
Café facilitators from R&Rs across California are trained on the curriculum and café topics and
are given the tools to support their participants with information and resources pertaining to the content.
Cafés have been created for specific groups such as parents, family friends and neighbors, family child care providers and Home Visitors. Café materials are available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
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