Helping Hands Nurturing Program and the 5 Protective Factors Identified by the Government for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse

At Helping Hands Nurturing Center, we integrate all 5 protective factors into our program to support the changes families need so they can find more successful ways to parent. Addressing the 5 protective factors ensures that children get the safe start they need to face the world empowered and healthy.

The 5 protective factors include:

Nurturing and attachment / knowledge of parenting, child and youth development: Our program’s foundation is built on this premise. All discipline and interactions can help foster a loving attachment from which children learn to seek out other loving relationships. This approach supports a family bond that children trust and depend on.

Parental Resilience: Our lessons support a parent’s ability to handle the stressful issues that parents must face in a way that helps them to stay focused, advocate for their needs and allows them the ability to move forward in a positive proactive way.

Safe social connections: Through groups, events and a warm hand-off to other agencies that we collaborate with we can provide stability and resources to help keep a family on track.

Concrete support in times of need: By nurturing all those that participate in our program we are able to connect parents and children to resources and support in their community, so their needs are met, and they can stay focused on the most important things in their lives.

Social and emotional competence of children: Not only do parents learn how to be more loving, understand their own emotions and effectively communicate, their children also learn how to understand their emotions, and how to express their emotions. Emotional competence benefits everyone to develop a strong sense of self and improve their ability to navigate in the world in which they live.