Family Leadership

Family Leadership reached more than 15,000 parents this year with comprehensive parenting skills and Leadership training, resulting in stronger families and more school success for more than 30,000 children through our Family engagement workshops: parenting partners, calm & kind Family, Family meals challenge and our pro series professional learning workshops: proleadership, prostrengths, prowebinars.family Leadership partners with schools and community groups in areas of high child poverty. This year, Family Leadership partnered with over 40 school districts nationwide and trained over 1,300 volunteer facilitators through live and virtual training. These facilitator teams are made up of school staff and parent volunteers.these teams of local facilitators were equipped to facilitate local parent workshops within their community, reaching over 15,000 parents nationwide. These parent workshops can be delivered in multiple languages virtually or in person. This year, the majority of districts delivered them in person. Family Leadership's bilingual workshops include:parenting partners-workshops that build core parenting and Leadership skills. Parent graduates step up as parent champions in their homes and school campuses. Many become workshop presenters and team leaders for the next cohort.calm & kind family-workshops that build emotional wellness at home with brain-based strategies and resources. They include emotional regulation tools and proactive strategies for positive mental health practices.family meals challenge-these targeted workshops rapidly stregthen a vital Family practice, bringing the Family together more often to increase quality connections. Family meals build effective Family practices for wellness, social-emotional learning, and school achievement.parents who graduated from parenting partners, calm & kind Family, or Family meals challenge reported the following outcomes through comprehensive data:- increased time reading with their children, resulting in higher reading scores- improved attendance- stronger mental health and social-emotional wellbeing- ability to talk openly about emotions- improved confidence in navigating the challenges of technology use & social media- better nutritional choices and more Family mealtime- new skills such as positive discipline and Family organizationin addition to the impact on these key Family outcomes, many parents who graduated from parenting partners or calm & kind Family have grown their Leadership skills and had the opportunity to join the facilitation team. They have also become more involved volunteering at their school and within their community, gone back to school to further their own education, or been offered a job with the school district.our national staff supports these school team leaders and provides ongoing capacity-building Leadership development through ongoing webinars, pro series workshops, and hosting a national conference that supports and strengthens the Leadership skills within the network of district and school site leaders.family Leadership's professional learning workshops include:pro webinars - prowebinars are provided throughout the year and deliver interactive professional learning for Family engagement teams. These webinars emphasize best practices in Leadership and Family engagement from around the country.pro leadersip - graduates of parent workshops often become workshop presenters themselves. In this series, they practice advanced presentation methods that build their confidence and capacity to present workshops, creating a sustainable cohort of leaders.pro strengths - this is a life-changing professional learning experience that connects leaders and teams to their greatest strengths. Prostrengths creates powerful, positive teams for Family engagement. It provides compelling peofessional learning for parents and staff. We facilitate the experience for school cohorts in an online platform.