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 CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT IN
AGENCIES, COALITIONS
Lessons Learned--Consumer
Involvement in Step Ahead & First Steps
This indexed report explores the basic questions
of consumer involvement: What is it? Why is it needed? Who are
consumers? and more. Successful strategies for involving consumers
and dealing with barriers are also addressed.
FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION
For everyone | Mainly for
Parents | Mainly
for Educators
For everyone:
Partners in Learning is
a publication written by The Family Connection for the Indiana
Center for Family, School & Community Partnerships. It's
about families, schools and communities working together for
kids. Each issue focuses on a single topic. Current issue topics:
Communicating with
Families
Establishing a Family
Center in Your School
Assessing for Family
Involvement
Using Technology to
Involve Families
Involving Fathers
in their Children's Education
Introducing the IN
Center for Family, School & Community Partnerships
Programs for Parents This information sheet
presents a brief description of some of the programs in Indiana
(Family Math & Family Science, Links to Learning, Twenty-first
Century Scholors Parents' Project, Teleparent) which are
designed to help families help their children learn.
Mainly for parents:
Parents and the Internet:
FAQ* Answers some *Frequently
Asked Questions -- what's in it for parents, what if families
don't have a computer at home, where parents can find out more
information, how parents can help their child's school, and beginning
sites to check out.
Helping Your Child
Learn: It's as Easy as A-B-C
Gives parents some guidelines and
practical suggestions for keeping their children on track in
school.
A Planning Guide Family involvement doesn't
"just happen." This simple step-by-step guide helps
parent groups think through what they want to do and why, figure
out who will do it and how, follow through, and then find out
how they can do it even better the next time.
Avenues for Funding
This parent information sheet provides some basic
guidelines for finding money to support programs and projects,
including tips on how to ask for funding and where to look for
funding in your own community.
What Parents Learned The learnings from several
parent groups who worked on family involvement projects are discussed--in
parents' words--in this brief information sheet. Learnings center
around the issues of time, attentiveness, commitment, outreach
and respect.
Mainly for educators:
Are
We Family Friendly? is an assessment tool that schools
can use to find out how parents rate their "family friendliness."
What's
Happening? What Would You Like to be Happening? is a
self- assessment and planning tool for teachers to reflect on
what they are doing now in the area of family involvement and
what they would like to be doing in the future.
A Local Website
Can Open Doors to All Types of Involvement Looks at developing school
web sites from a family involvement perspective in the areas
of parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home,
decision-making, and community collaborating.
Tips for Building
a Classroom or School Web Site
Provides some basic guidance for getting
started on a web site.
Involving Families
through the WEB Provides a family
involvement checklist for classroom, school and district web
sites.
Involving Families:
Begin with the Basics Provides
the A-B-C's of successful strategies for teachers on how to involve
families.
Successful Family-School
Partnerships Shares some of the characteristics that effective
partnerships have in common.
Simple Strategies
for Involving Men: It's worth the effort! Gives some basic considerations
and successful practices for getting men involved in schools
and other childhood programs.
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