Develop Effective Family Involvement Programs

FOCUS Guilford offers workshops and facilitates planning sessions that will help your school plan family involvement programs or develop a family resource center.  Contact us to discuss your individual situation.

Ideas for Projects and Programs can be found at:

• The National Network for Partnership Schools http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/ posts easy to replicate family involvement activities.  These can be found in several locations on the site:
• A collection of best practices year-by-year can be found at http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/ppp.htm
• A list of best practices for middle and high schools is at http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/Middle_and_High/MH_PPP.htm
• The National PTA website lists family involvement activities based on the six types of family involvement. Many of the surveys and brochures on the National PTA website are available in many different languages.
• To see a list of project ideas go to http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/standards/pubstndid.asp. 
• Go to the publications section to order the recently released PTA guide ($4.00) for parent / family involvement programs.

Check out these websites to find brochures, books, videos and other print resources.  Some are free and some are costly:

• Visit the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education at http://www.ncpie.org.  Click on the Resources Link to search an extensive database of materials available from hundreds of organizations.
• Contact Mark Jewell at Guilford County Association of Educators to get samples and a list of materials available from the North Carolina Association of Educators

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