Parents/Family Involvement
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Description: Reclaiming Youth is a movement of professionals, citizens, parents, and policy leaders concerned with children and youth in conflict in home, school, and community. Reclaiming Youth is offers training opportunities, strength-based publications, research and advocacy for creating environments in which all of our children and youth can thrive and grow.
Supporting Your Adolescent: Tips for Parents
Description: Provides tips for raising an adolescent, as well as a comprehensive listing of print resources for parents and glossary of terms.
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Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time
Author: Caspe, Margaret (1 more by this author); Priscilla Little; Flora Traub
Description: Harvard Family Research Project's (HFRP) Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation briefs are short, user-friendly documents that highlight current research and evaluation work in the out-of-school time field. This fourth brief, Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time, offers an overview of how out-of-school time programs involve families and how programs can evaluate family involvement.
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Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)
Description: ADDA's mission is to help people with AD/HD lead happier, more successful lives through education, research, and public advocacy.
Description: KidsGrowth.com is a unique Web site tailored specifically toward the concerns and interests of today's parents. The site was developed and created by well-respected medical leaders in the field of pediatrics and adolescent medicine.
Description: School connectedness is a key factor in positive youth development. The Centers for Disease Control has released a report entitled School Connectedness-Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth (PDF) amid increasing dialogue about the importance of "school connectedness" and continuing focus on the role of parental involvement in school success.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience 
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
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Mastering the Mystery: Food, Facts and Fun
Author: Dansby, Montreka; Travella Free
Description: Join the team of detectives on the mission to explore "the journey of food" through innovative and integrative school and community gardening programs. The webinar will highlight the benefits of gardening, curriculum connections, activities, technology tools, food and nutrition and related initiatives. Program directors, front line staff and trainers of afterschool and Out-of-School-Time (OST) programs this is a session for you! 21st CCLC, Parks and Recreation programs, Cooperative Extension, 4-H Youth Development, Boys and Girls Clubs, Y programs, etc. - if you want youth to get excited about healthy living and learn about the connection of food and gardening to science, join us for this session. Curricula, activities and the connection of gardening and nutrition to science learning and education standards will be provided.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
- More about "The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience"
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Description: A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement is a synthesis of 51 studies about the impact of family and community involvement on student achievement and effective strategies to connect schools, families, and community.
An Affirmative Approach to Parental Involvement in Youth Programs
Author: Torretta, Alayne (1 more by this author); Laura Bovitz
Description: An Affirmative Approach discusses the importance of having parents involved in youth department programs take a child-oriented approach. However, adults are often come to the program with parent-oriented behavior. The authors provide suggestion on using the “4-A's of motivation: acceptance, affiliation, achievement, and altruism” to turn a negative approach into a positive approach.
Brain Development (Desarrollo Cerebral Infantil)
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the relevance of recent research on the early development of the brain and the implications of that knowledge for parents and caregivers as they interact with young children. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Desarrollo Cerebral Infantil" http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/sp.cerebral.pdf)
Description: This web site, available in Spanish and English, is for parents to help their child become a good reader and a successful student. This site is full of information, ideas, and practical tips on how Spanish-speaking parents can help their children become confident, successful readers. There are ideas on what to do at home, fun reading tips and activities, and much more.
Improving Family and Community Engagement Through Sharing Data
Description: A briefing paper by the Southeast Comprehensive Center outlines the significance of family and community engagement, examines considerations and recommendations for sharing data with stakeholders, and provides related resources.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.
Teaching Our Daughters about Sexuality
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet aimed at helping parents teach their children about healthy sexual development.
Teaching Our Sons about Sexuality
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping parents teach their sons about healthy sexual development.
The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series
Description: The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series provides information on research, best practices, and innovations in family, school, and community engagement. Topics include school transformation and making student and school data accessible and meaningful to families.
Working with Teachers to Support Children's Learning
Author: Silliman, Benjamin (6 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers ideas to help parents and family members work cooperatively with teachers and activity leaders to support childrenÂ’s learning.
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Choosing Schools, Building Communities? The Effect of Schools of Choice on Parental Involvement
Description: School choice is a hot issue that's come into the spotlight because of the No Child Left Behind Act. More and more evidence is showing that schools of choice have higher levels of parent involvement, but it hasn't been clear whether this is due to how the schools are managed, or because parents who take the action to select a school are more involved to begin with. Now a study from the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University's Teachers College seeks to determine whether school choice can really be an engine for creating stronger parent communities.
Engaging With Families in Out-of-School Time Learning
Author: Family, Harvard (1 more by this author)
Description: This brief documents research of how programs incorporate family and parent involvement into their programs, along with data collection methods most commonly used to assess this variable.
Family, School and Community Involvement in School-Age Child Care Programs: Best Practices
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author); Tony Mallilo; Marilyn Martin
Description: This article is a report of the results of a study that evaluated 30 school-age programs serving high-risk populations. Directors were asked to identify practices they found successful in working with high risk children and families that enhance child care program support and foster involvement of the school, the family, and the community.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.