Family and Community Engagement

Partnership Family Engagement Grant Program

The Partnership believes that educating families, caretakers and communities in how to support student learning is an important strategy for increase student achievement.  In order to achieve this, the Partnership has launched the Partnership Family and Community Engagement Grant Program for its schools, which provides resources to create school-site based, academically focused activities and workshops that will help parents and guardians understand how to support their child’s education. 

Partnership Family Leadership Institute

The Partnership Family Leadership Institute is an 8 month long seminar designed to train families in how to support student learning in the classroom, help parents and guardians understand their roles and responsibilities as members and leaders of school communities and to understand their leadership in the context of their communities and the city of Los Angeles.  Parents also take part in discussions with key Los Angeles civic and community leaders regarding education and have the opportunity to visit local colleges and universities with their children.  

Partnership Family University Days

To encourage all families to begin to explore college as an option for their children, the Partnership currently host Family University Days, a program that allows families get to spend a day at local colleges and universities where they are able to explore the campus, meet current students, attend informative workshops, and see firsthand what the college environment looks like. 

Parent Center Renovation Program

Through a grant provided by the DirectTV, all Partnership Schools have parent centers that have been newly refurbished and equipped with new furniture, televisions with free education programming, computers and libraries. 

School Based Family Action Teams

Each Partnership schools has a family action team: a coordinating committee consisting of the principals, parents, local community members, teachers, and Partnership representatives who meet monthly in order to create comprehensive plans for family engagement and evaluate all school site-based family and community events.  Each family action team has also been tasked with providing a number of academically focused activities for families and surveying parents regarding the quality of the programming offered.