GG-FSI™ · Gentle-Genitty Family Stability Index
See the strengths and pressures shaping a family’s daily life — and track them over time
The GG-FSI is a practitioner’s conversation guide across six domains of family stability plus the Family Stability Reserve™. This platform gives your organization a place to record each conversation, scores it instantly against the official scoring sheet, keeps every family’s timeline, and turns your caseload into program-level insight. Built for schools, agencies and community programs.
Pricing
$499 per program
One program is one caseload, site or cohort — a school’s family-support team, a home-visiting program, an agency office — with unlimited families, practitioners and re-assessments for as long as you keep it open.
- Guided recording form that mirrors the paper field instrument
- Automatic domain scores, Family Stability Score, Reserve score, interpretation bands and cross-domain interaction level
- Critical Safety Check flags kept separate from the score
- Family timelines showing change between conversations
- Program dashboard: domain profile, band distribution, families needing attention
- Action Map and field-testing notes captured with every record
- CSV export for your own analysts and funders
Invoice or purchase order? Write to info@attendanceusa.org.
The instrument
Six domains, thirty statements, one 0–4 scale
Developed by Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, the GG-FSI asks about the past 30 days from the family’s own point of view. Each domain scores 0–100; the Family Stability Score is the average of the six. Six further statements make up the Family Stability Reserve™, a measure of the family’s ability to absorb disruption.
| # | Domain | Asks about… |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Stability | Money for the basics |
| 2 | Housing, Environment & Mobility | A safe place and a way to get there |
| 3 | Health Stability | Feeling well and getting care |
| 4 | Caregiving & Routine Stability | Grown-ups we count on |
| 5 | Education & Developmental Stability | Learning and growing |
| 6 | Relational, Social & Community | People in our corner |
| Family Stability Reserve™ | Our backup power |
Read about the instrument and its research program on the Family Stability Index page. The instrument is copyrighted; this service is the licensed way to use it digitally.
How it works
Register
Create your organization account and pay for a program by card or invoice. Add your practitioners as team members.
Create a program
Name the caseload or site (e.g. “Northside Family Support — 2026-27”). Everything you record lives under it.
Have the conversation
Talk with the family about the past 30 days and record their answers on any device, including the safety check, Action Map and your field notes.
Read the scores
Each record is scored instantly. Return for a follow-up and the family’s timeline shows what changed. The dashboard rolls everything up.
What practitioners see after each conversation
An illustrative family profile. Higher number = steadier ground.
Family Stability Score 74 · Watch · Reserve 63 · Cross-domain interaction: Moderate (2 domains below 70). Illustrative figures.
Research-use statement. GG-FSI™ Version 1.0 is being field-tested to establish clarity, feasibility, reliability, validity, fairness and usefulness. Scores are a planning signal and conversation guide, separate from any diagnosis, eligibility test or professional safety assessment. Do not use the numerical score by itself to determine child-protection action, service eligibility, school exclusion, healthcare access, housing eligibility or other high-stakes decisions. Instrument © 2026 Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, PhD; GG-FSI™ and Family Stability Reserve™ are her trademarks, licensed for use through this platform.