“When families are involved at home and at school, children do better in school, and the schools get better. The effects are greater for low-income students.”
FIS provides technical assistance and support to organizations and collaborations in an effort to build their capacity to support parents’ active involvement in their children’s education and to advocate for opportunities for all children. Capacity-building initiatives include:
The Families Improving Education (FIE) Initiative of the James Irvine Foundation seeks to support organizations engaging families—particularly those in low-income, ethnic, and immigrant communities—in educational policymaking at the state and local levels. The initiative supports organizations undertaking a variety of activities that facilitate family input into educational decision-making and is designed to foster more responsive and appropriate educational policies that ultimately yield better academic outcomes for children and youth.
Families, schools, and communities all play a critical role in ensuring that children are socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively prepared to succeed in school and life. Unfortunately, certain groups of children enter kindergarten less equipped to be successful in later grades. The First 5 LA School Readiness Initiative supports organizations and programs across Los Angeles County to ensure that families and communities are provided the necessary support to ensure that these children do not fall behind.
In 2008, Families In Schools (FIS) was selected to provide technical assistance to 42 grantees of the First 5 LA School Readiness Initiative (SRI). As technical assistance provider, FIS facilitates learning among grantees and their partners to build a sustainable peer learning exchange, promote successful implementation of SRI programs, and build grantees’ capacity to positively impact the quality of life for children 0 to 5.
The United Way Success by 6® Wilmington Initiative (SB6-Wilmington) is an early learning collaborative consisting of 21 schools and organizations that strive to create a community-wide school readiness effort for Wilmington families. SB6-Wilmington has been in operation since 2001 and has experienced success in building strengths-based collaborations to support early education efforts in the Wilmington community.
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