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    • Home
    • About Us
      • Board of Directors
      • HFI History
      • HFI Partners
      • HFI Structured Process
      • HFI Support
      • Gallery
      • HFI News
    • HFI in Alabama
    • Digital Scrapbook
    • Why HFI?
      • HFI Benefits
      • Safe and Secure Schools
      • Cost of Crime
      • Cost of Incarceration
      • Causes of Juvenile Crime
      • Reduce School Drop-Outs
      • Truancy and Graduation
    • Get Started
      • FAQs
      • DA Responsibilities
      • School Responsibilities
      • Community
      • User Guides & Onboarding
    • Contact Us
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • HFI History
    • HFI Partners
    • HFI Structured Process
    • HFI Support
    • Gallery
    • HFI News
  • HFI in Alabama
  • Digital Scrapbook
  • Why HFI?
    • HFI Benefits
    • Safe and Secure Schools
    • Cost of Crime
    • Cost of Incarceration
    • Causes of Juvenile Crime
    • Reduce School Drop-Outs
    • Truancy and Graduation
  • Get Started
    • FAQs
    • DA Responsibilities
    • School Responsibilities
    • Community
    • User Guides & Onboarding
  • Contact Us

HFI User Guides and Onboarding

Download the most recent version of the HIF User Guide and documents from Summer Conferences.

HFI Summer Conference 2026 Agenda Overview (pdf)Download
Helping Families Initiative Workplan v1.2 (pdf)Download
HFI User Guide v3.0 (pdf)Download
HFI - The Story of ALICE (pdf)Download
UWECA-HFI Stronger Together (pdf)Download
HFI 2025 Summer Conference timely Data (pptx)Download
HFI 2025 Summer Conference Legislative Requirements (pptx)Download
No Show Letter to Parent (docx)Download
Case Management Reasons for Closure (pdf)Download

HFI WorkPlan

Helping Families Initiative Workplan (pdf)Download
Helping Families Initiative Workplan (docx)Download

North Carolina Family Assessment Scale & Definitions

NCFAS-G Scale & Definitions (pdf)Download

Alabama Attendance Manual

ALSDE 23-24 Attendance Manual (pdf)Download

Other Resources

Revisioning Case Management compressed (pdf)Download

Onboarding - Legal Issues

confidentiality self test (docx)Download
ethics training ovc (pdf)Download
FERPA and JuvJust -Bernard (pdf)Download
FERPA and NASRO (pdf)Download
HFI and FERPA w gonzaga (docx)Download
HFI.Role of District Attorney (docx)Download
HFI.SDE AdminCode.290-3-1 (pdf)Download
How to become a less biased version of yourself (pdf)Download
IAT Ethics Confidentiality (docx)Download
School code of 1927 (doc)Download
Staff Ethics-Confidentiality rev 2023 (docx)Download

Onboarding - Program Management

7 UA parent notice (docx)Download
aldse behvior codes (docx)Download
Assessment letter Eng-Sp (docx)Download
Attendance Warning Eng-Sp (docx)Download
CSM assessment letter (docx)Download
new asst ltr (docx)Download
Power School Infraction codes (docx)Download
Violation warning Eng-Spanish (docx)Download

Onboarding - The HFI Process

Bringing Problems to School (jpeg)Download
Developmental pathways excerpts (docx)Download
flow chart NCFAS and IIP (pdf)Download
Handouts IAT 8-2024 (pdf)Download
InterAgency Team Process (pdf)Download
IIP DEVELOPMENT (docx)Download
NCFAS-G Scale & Definitions (pdf)Download
practice_active_listening (pdf)Download
Resources pic (jpg)Download
Truancy Summit 9-2024 (pdf)Download

Onboarding - Tools for Helping Families

5 step problenm solving (docx)Download
5 WAYS TO ENGAGE PARENTS (pdf)Download

Onboarding - Forms and Templates

Admission Req with instructions (docx)Download
Consent for Release of (docx)Download
HFI ppal ltr (docx)Download
HFI.JobDesc.HFICaseOfficer (doc)Download
HFI.JobDesc.HFICaseOfficer[3975] (doc)Download
Job desc Coordinator (docx)Download

Onboarding - Facilitating Change

4 Stages of change (docx)Download
Barriers to problem solving (docx)Download
FREE YOUR MIND (docx)Download
How To Teach Kids To Cope With Uncertainty | HuffPost Life (pdf)Download
Six Ways to Help People Change | Greater Good (pdf)Download
Why Is It So Hard to Change People’s Minds? | Greater Good Magazine (pdf)Download

For Parents

DoE FERPA Guidance (pdf)Download
parent tips (pdf)Download
Three Ways to Help Your Kids Succeed at Distance Learning (pdf)Download
Working Parents Are Angry. But What Can We Do? (pdf)Download

Onboarding - HFI Publications and Research

Child and Adolescent Social Work article (pdf)Download
Education Week_ The Long Arm of the Law (pdf)Download
HFI.Fish Institute Article (doc)Download
HFI.The Prosecutor (pdf)Download
Interns research (doc)Download

Onboarding - How Life Experience Affects Children ACES Pover

Understanding-Poverty-How-Poverty-Impacts-Cognition-Learning (pdf)Download
ACEs seminar (pdf)Download
aspcc-ACES (pdf)Download
Bullying and Racism (pdf)Download
Correspondent Poverty article (docx)Download
Framework-for-Understanding-Poverty-Deeper-Understanding (pdf)Download
Here’s Why Some People Can Stand Up to Social Pressure (pdf)Download
https:science.sciencemag.org:content:sci:341:6149:976.full (pdf)Download
JAMA Pot use in Teens Neg effects (pdf)Download
Long term impact of childhood trauma (pdf)Download
Parents’ Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment (pdf)Download
The psychology of scarcity (pdf)Download
Trauma can be inherited. (pdf)Download

Onboarding - Professional Skills

10 Signs of Intellectual DIShonesty | (pdf)Download
case mgmt w:children - Springer (pdf)Download
developmental pathways OJJDP (pdf)Download
How to Give to Others without Burning Out (docx)Download
how trauma lingers (pdf)Download
NICABM anger h:o (pdf)Download
NICABM Body:Brain Impact (pdf)Download
NICAMB Stress Hormones & Body (pdf)Download
Should You Call or Text? Science Weighs In (pdf)Download
The Surprising Benefits of Gratitude Everyone Should Know About (Opinion) (pdf)Download
Trauma Informed Care - SAMHSA (pdf)Download
trauma whitepaper (pdf)Download
Venting doesn’t work. (pdf)Download
What If I Said No? (And Other Questions to Consider Daily) (pdf)Download

Onboarding - School Specific Topics

These Factors Are Linked to High Student Attendance. Does Your School Have Them? (pdf)Download
'Swatting' Hoaxes Disrupt Schools Across the Country. What Educators Need to Know (pdf)Download
7 models of school discipline (pdf)Download
Addressing the Link Between Anxiety, Depression, and Student Attendance (pdf)Download
Ed Wk SEL for Trauma 10-2022 (pdf)Download
How Teacher Bias and School Culture Shape School Discipline-1 (pdf)Download
I Combed Through 81 Studies on School Discipline. Here’s What Educators Need to Know (Opinion) (pdf)Download
School Refusal - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf (pdf)Download
School refusal: When a child won’t go to school - Harvard Health (pdf)Download
Should Schools Reward Attendance? What the Experts Say (pdf)Download
The Problem of School Refusal | Psychology Today (pdf)Download

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