Love Is Not Enough Parent Cafes

Love Is Not Enough is an Initiative of Strengthening Families Illinois, a Collaboration between the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and over 40 partner agencies and organizations. Love Is Not Enough Parent Cafes were developed by the Illinois Family Partnership Network as a partner of Strengthening Families Illinois.

The Love Is Not Enough initiative is spreading six core messages:

• Be strong and flexible
• Parents need friends
• Being a great parent is part natural and part learned
• We all need help sometimes
• Parents need to help their children communicate
• Give your children the love and respect they need

These messages are based on research from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, which has revealed that children are safer when their families are strengthened by the six protective factors above (http://www.strengtheningfamilies.net/).