Parent Organizations

Parents Reaching Out Success Stories (2006)

Over the next few months, stories about interesting Parents Reaching Out projects from last year will be posted here. These stories will be a useful resource with tips and techniques to build parent engagement in your school.

Here are a few of the projects we'll be featuring:

• How to identify and reduce barriers to parent involvement
• How to bring many cultures together to celebrate diversity and build bridges
• How to enrich parents' skills and knowledge with resources such as a parent library, parent welcome kits, and techniques such as parent information nights
• How to help parents communicate more effectively with their children and address key issues such as bullying
• How to provide multi-language services to engage parents whose first language is not English or French
• How to create connections between parents, schools and community services
• What parents can do at home to help with their children's success at school.