Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School is a new comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to understanding how to engage families in after-school programs. It is a critical resource for after school providers looking to create or expand an existing family engagement program. Program leaders, local decision makers, funders, and others interested in promoting good family involvement practice in many different settings will also find the guide vital to their work. It offers a research base for why family engagement matters, concrete program strategies for engaging families, case studies of promising family engagement efforts, and an evaluation tool for improving family engagement practices. Read the joint press release issued by HFRP, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, and BOSTnet.
Click here to read Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School.
