Families In Schools offers customized technical assistance packages to schools, groups of schools, and community organizations. 

Technical Assistance and Coaching

Our expertise in parent engagement and using engagement as a tool for school reform allows us to bring a unique set of knowledge and skills to any organization.  Projects vary from developing and implementing a series of learning opportunities, to working as a member of a school ‘parent engagement action team’ to develop and implement a plan for enhancing the parent center in the school, to bringing a group of community organizations together as they develop their policy goals and strategies for the coming years around the topic of education reform.

Teacher Training and Parent Education

This two (2) day professional development program is designed to build confidence and knowledge in a group of teachers, out of classroom staff, and administrators 

as they learn about parent engagement, the needs of their particular parents, and as they develop a plan of action that will enhance the work already being done to bring parents in to the life of the school and the academic- life of each student at the school.  The curriculum is customized to fit the needs of a particular school and can be delivered in various timelines.  The primary result of the training can be captured in the words of a teacher who attended one of the two-day programs, “I always knew that I needed parents to support my work, but until now, I did not feel confident that what I was doing would work.  Now I know that when I spend my time reaching out to parents, I will see results.”