The Family Engagement Strategies: Building Strong Relationships course is designed to promote family support staff in using strengths-based attitudes and relationship-based practices. Many programs are struggling to find unique ways to support vulnerable families. Strength-based attitudes and relationship-based practices are especially important in working with families who are experiencing challenging situations. These situations may include housing, financial, health or mental health challenges, or concerns for the safety of a child or a family. The idea of parents as children’s first and most important teachers is central to Head Start’s philosophy of working with families. Children benefit from caring, responsive, and stable relationships. A strong relationship with a parent promotes a child’s development, learning, and increased school success. Head Start professionals can encourage strong and positive parent-child relationships through family engagement strategies and best practices to: create strength-based relationships that respect diverse parenting styles and parenting choices, use cultural and linguistics strategies and best responses to a family’s dreams, hopes, and traditions, engage parents through mutually respectful and flexible interactions, and connect parents with the learning process to help their children develop skills for school success.