Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After
School
February 2006
Zenub Kakli, Holly Kreider
& Priscilla Little,
Harvard Family Research Project
Tania Buck & Maryellen Coffey, Build the Out-of-School Time Network (BOSTnet)
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This new comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to understanding how to engage families
in after school programs 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. The guide, produced in partnership with BOSTnet
and United Way of Massachusetts Bay, 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.
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