Positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities
Our family engagement model focuses on building genuine relationships with families to support the family well-being and children's healthy development.
We promote a high-impact engagement process that is collaborative, culturally competent, and focused on creating the lasting solutions that are needed.
Our process focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive relationship-building with key family members in a child’s life.
It requires making a commitment to creating and sustaining an ongoing partnership that supports family well-being. Research shows that when families are meaningfully and continuously engaged in their children’s learning and development, they can positively impact their child’s health, development, academic, and well-being outcomes into adulthood (Henderson & Mapp, 2002).
Our community engagement model focuses on cultivating collaborations with community partners
A central question we ask ourselves is: if kids are hungry, sick, tired, or under stress, how can they learn? This question has become more acutely relevant in recent years. Disparities in education, and health, have increased, and solutions to confront those challenges have not kept pace with expanding needs. Community building projects that solve issues, bring people together and educate the public about social issues to create lasting solutions are what is needed.
When families are engaged, partnerships are created that have a common focus – helping children grow and thrive. This requires a collaborative and strengths-based process through which stakeholders, families, and children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. We strongly believe it is a shared responsibility of families and agencies at all levels that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer.
