Programs
August 8, 2022
Families and Schools Together
- Issue Areas
- Health and well-being
- Outcomes
- Elementary and middle school success
Program overview
- Group-based family intervention for at-risk youth
- Groups of nine to twelve families come together for eight meetings, each including a meal, structured activities, parent support, and parent-child play therapy
- Activities are facilitated by a trained team consisting of parents, teachers, school representatives, and community-based workers
- Families participate in monthly follow-up meetings for two years after initial programming
- Cost per Participant
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$14,700 for a cohort of 40 families
- Strong evidence of behavior and social skills improvement in children
- Improved family relationships, parent engagement with school community, and parenting confidence
- Reduced rate of children switching schools
- Increased school safety
- Note: This content is under review
- The program is based heavily on social research and draws evidence-based practices for its programming and implementation.
- The experiential dimensions of the program, where families learn and practice positive parenting, encourage lasting behavioral change within families.
- In bringing multiple families together, families are better able to build connections that strengthen support at home, in school, and within their broader communities.
- Almost 60% of program materials are able to be adapted in order to reflect the local culture, ethnicity, language, gender balance, and socioeconomic status of the families served.