TOPIC: Parent/Home Involvement and Engagement in Schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System

Self-study Survey
• Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling
• Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning: A Collaborative Process

Policy & Practice Report
• Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning: A Collaborative Process

Articles
• Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
• Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment

Guides to Practice
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide .
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools.
• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families
• Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Information Resources

• The Impact of Parent Expectations and Home and Neighborhood Influences on Education Goals  
• Overparenting as a Barrier to Development, Learning, and Well-being

Hot Topic
• Homework as a Mental Health Concern

Introductory Packets
• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Newsletters
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well (Winter, 2012)
• About School, Home, and Community Connecting and Collaborating to Address Barriers to Learning (Summer, 2011)
• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports (Spring, 2007)

Practice & Guidance Notes
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Helping and Socialization
• Involving Parents in Counseling
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families

QuickFinds
• The Enabling Component
• Parenting Skills and Parenting Education

Resource Aid Packets
• Home Involvement in Schooling: A Self-study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Technical Aid Packets
• Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn
• School Based Mutual Support Groups
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Parenting Education
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Adult Education/Family Literacy
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Mobilizing the Home to Address Students' Basic Needs

Tools for Practice
• Home Involvement in Schooling: A Self-Study Survey

Training Tutorials
• Home Involvement in Schooling

Student and Family Assistance Programs and Services-Outcomes
• School-Owned and/or Based Support Programs
• School-Linked Projects and Services