Family Archetypes

Identified in break out groups

at the May 24th

Pre-Retreat Head Start Action Learning Project

Mark Holmgren – Mark Cabaj Facilitators

At the pre-retreat, we worked with this formula:

Client + Mechanism + Context = Outcomes.

We agreed that clients are unique and offer “variations” that services must address.

Mechanism represents the interventions, services, programs, actions provided to help.

Context is what is going on with the client at the time, where he or she is located,

what the specific needs are that are being presented.

For this exercise, we focused on the variations of clients through

the exercise of identifying Family Archetypes.

Our purpose wasn’t to graphically depict every variation, but rather a sufficient range

of variations that will allow us to use as a touchstone for further work.