Families and school staff work together to support and improve the learning, development, and health of students. Family engagement with schools is a shared responsibility of both school staff and families. School staff are committed to making families feel welcomed, engaging families in a variety of meaningful ways, and sustaining family engagement. Families are committed to actively supporting their child's learning and development. This relationship between school staff and families cuts across and reinforces student health and learning in multiple settings—at home, in school, in out-of-school programs, and in the community. Family engagement should be continuous across a child's life and requires an ongoing commitment as children mature into young adulthood.
Division of Family Resource and Youth
Services Centers
The division
provides administrative support, technical assistance and training
to local school-based Family Resource and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC)
in Kentucky. The primary goal of these centers is to remove non-academic
barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success.
Each center offers
a unique blend of programs and services determined by the needs of the
population being served, available resources, location and other local
characteristics.
Resources
CDC’s Parents for Healthy Schools
CDC provides set resources and tools to help schools, school
groups and school wellness committees encourage parent engagement in school
health. These resources include fact sheets, a guide with training and
evaluation materials and an e-learning course. The purpose of these resources is
to educate parents on the school
nutrition environment and services, school-based physical education and
physical activity, and managing chronic health conditions in the school
setting.
The
Leadership Conference Education Fund Parent and Family Engagement Provisions of
the Every Student Succeeds Act
This resource provides detail of the Every Student Succeeds
Act (ESSA) which was reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
Explains the funding of the act, consultation and parent and family engagement
policies.
Stephanie Bunge
Office of Finance and Operations
Division of District Support
300 Sower Blvd., 4th Floor
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 564-5279
Fax (502) 564-6470