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Buddy system- staff members have students that they get to know to better help know specific situations

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After school program, commencing a parent council, tying parent classes with after school, building partnerships to get resources, incentivize parents engagement, and keep it going. building that trust to eliminate barriers for parents engagement with school staff is crucial, forms to get more parents involved,

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Share more stories of Family Engagement success to help bring on other families and school communities

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Share more stories of Family Engagement success to help bring on other families and school communities

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Share success stories so that other families can advocate to bring Real Family Engagement to their schools, districts

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Enrolling families into our program

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Home visits with school counselor and other support staff. Often we would bring house warming gift (basket of fruit) to families when we would visit.

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Participation has increased

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Formal internal great and supportive staff, expanding party/group membership/circle, working in CS, community centers, mental health staff/therapist, Davis County of Utah is working in alignment on community schools strategy, back to school night event being in one place with everyone is an example of CS, etc

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Parent engagement nights

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We have extensive waitlists!!

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Take advantage of Back to School Night- create raffles, information on attendance etc

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Food insecurity, mental health (extreme child behaviors), folks getting evicted post covid relief assistance,…all can be done not from a place of deficit thinking but asset based.

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One presentation mentioned having a cultural night or different ways to bring parents into the building. One idea is a recipe night for math. Parents create and make the recipes at the school

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Having principals form a FACE team, schools fill out the parent school compact based on data, linking all the family events to that compact- whether it’s a link to learning or SEL goal on the compact! Big 3 nights implemented in each school, home visits, etc

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Teaching in Their Language helps them to open up and feel seen

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Family Nights- linking learning to them/ building parent capacity

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Families need more supports in place as well as access.

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Special education needs and family understanding of IEP/504 efficacy

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Building relationships with community partners and connecting them with schools.

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Finding partners- United Way;), Digital Safety, STEM Action Center, etc.

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More full-time community school coordinators

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Building capacity of our teachers and administrators to better support families.

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More people are aware of community schools and what they can do for our families.

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Getting our first Community School Coalition started.

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Getting our first Community School Coalition started.

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The creation of a statewide community schools coalition is exciting.

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How can we teach skills that relate or apply to home life and how can we support parents obtaining those same skills so they can be a part of the modeling/teaching

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Cultural/ Communication barriers

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Getting donations to have as incentives for our families who come to our classes.

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Food insecurity

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Full day kindergarten.

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Working with Latinos In Action has been incredible 👏🏼👏🏼

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After school recourses not available in all areas.

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Attendance Crisis.

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Housing affordability/financial instability

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Classes were able to return to full capacity and parents are showing up!!

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Hair on fleek and looking good helps.

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Engaging Multilingual students and parents

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Dealing with politics over language like CRT that keep us from supporting our students and families

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Access to young children day care has a huge impact in our school community. Older siblings (elementary & secondary ages) have to take care of younger siblings while parents work & at many times don’t come to school because of this barrier.

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Meaningful engagement through with asset base

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Mental health - access to programs and affordability of service.

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Getting men to come to our evening classes and invest in their children’s education and future.

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Community Parent Nights

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Non-support for our LGBTQ+ students and families. Laws passed that don’t support them and families that don’t support their students.

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Emotional and mental crisis- adults and kids

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Hiking in Utah mtns;)

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LGBTQIA+

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Housing affordability & student mobility

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Language Barriers

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State coalition

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Multi lingual learner support
Access to services- mental health and physical resources

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Today is a fantastic day

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https://padlet.com/thefcenetwork/2023-csxfe-utah-1uynadomy8mi0odo

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This year’s conference theme is Spreading Love & Supporting All Children.
- 11:45: Welcome & Overview - Participants will enter contact information into survey
- 12:00: Think of ONE issue children & families are facing in our state that can use some love.
-12:05: Go around the room introducing yourself and sharing your issue, and STAY with others as a TEAM that share your SAME issue.
-12:10: Have TEAMS share their issue on the Padlet and announce out loud, “Children & families in my state can use some more love in…”
- 12:15: Open your QR codes and individually think through the first 2 Questions
- 12:20: Take 5 minutes to read through everyone’s comments.
- 12:25: Talk at your tables about the opportunities to advance community schools & family engagement.
- 12:35: Type your BEST opportunities in Q3
- 12:40: Individually read through all the opportunities and put a “Heart” for the ONE you can get behind.
- 12:45: If a big group, divide into tables based on TOP ideas. If small group, choose one idea.
- 12:50: Brainstorm and place in the “Comments” of the “Opportunity”
- 1:05: Share Outs
- 1:15: Adjourn