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  • Topics include...
  • Parent Rights & Responsibilities
  • Student Needs & Learning Styles
  • High School & A-G Requirements
  • Financial Aid & Scholarships
  • Four Types of CA Colleges
  • Entrance Exams
  • Career Exploration
  • Community Colleges & Transferring
  • Support Programs
  • Guest speakers, prize giveaways, homework, graduation celebration & dinner, certificate of completion
  • In addition to the Parent Academy, schools might ask FIC's to help coordinate other school parent workshops or events

Parents As Leaders

Inspiring to Act From Inner-Potential

Sustainability

PL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Once a month we conduct a check-in meeting where PL's can share experiences, challenges, successes, ideas, strategies, etc.
  • FIC provides a short presentation on any topic of interest to PL's or in order to update or advance their knowledge on any topic related to college or academics

CELEBRATE SUCCESSES, STRATEGIZE AROUND CHALLENGES

  • Provide PL's with certificates of recognition, organize potlucks, provide dinner for check-in meetings, etc.
  • Present challenges so other PL's can learn from them
  • Allow for PL's to share their own strategies and ideas
  • Include PL's in the planning or ask for their opinion on certain decisions

SELF-SUSTAINABILITY

  • Have conversations to shift systems and ways of thinking in your organizations, schools and districts
  • Parent Centers
  • Parent Liaisons
  • Parent Education Program
  • Keep inspiring Parent Leaders and colleagues to act from their inner-potential
  • You must let the quality of your work back-up your ideas for change

ALWAYS WORK FROM YOUR STAND

ALWAYS STAND IN YOUR GREATNESS!

Parent Leadership

Family Information Campaign

Parent Leader Training

  • The Family Information Campaign are home visits conducted by trained Parent Leaders (PL's) to families who have not been advised on their IAP
  • PL's team up to do home visits or decide to do a home visit on their own (the former is preferred)
  • AT THE HOME VISIT
  • PL's use a visual tool (a flipchart) to present all the information to the families that we would present at an IAP 1-1 meeting - this helps PL's remember details and it gives cues to develop conversations
  • Families get an IAP folder and PL's review their child's IAP with parents' written permission due to being volunteers and not staff
  • PL's promote the next round of Parent Academy workshops or any upcoming school events

Parents who graduate from the Parent Academy are then invited to participate in the Parent Leader Training

  • The Parent Leader Training is a series of 5-6 workshops designed to prepare potential GEAR-UP Parent Leaders for the Family Information Campaign (conduct home visits)
  • They are trained on advising, confidentiality, home visit safety, and other academic & college information
  • They are also trained on protocols and paperwork to keep track of who they visit

From the Parent Academy graduates, usually only half participate in the Parent Leader Training, and usually only half of that group remain committed to become Parent Leaders

Parent Academy

Parent Academy Topics

What is the Parent Academy?

  • The Parent Academy is a series of weekly workshops (between 5 - 8) on college & academic information, as well as socio-emotional issues
  • Recruitment includes phone calls to families who we've met with through IAP meetings, the school's automated messenger, fliers, teacher collaboration, student incentives, school calendars, school marquees, etc.
  • We provide childcare (through collaborations with partner orgs), food in every workshop and sometimes collaborate with teachers to give students extra credit if their parents participate

Creating a Platform

Individual Academic Plans

Other Events

  • Program objective: 80% of cohort's parents will review their child's four-year individual academic plan (IAP) before the end of 9th grade
  • CF's have student meetings to create the IAP
  • FIC collaborates with college facilitators to schedule:
  • 1-1 IAP parent meetings
  • Workshop-style IAP meetings (multiple families)
  • Home visits
  • These meetings create an initial contact, a point of reference, and can break the ice
  • These meetings must be positive and engaging
  • Please open your sample parent folders
  • Sample four-year IAP
  • Handouts: GPA, college knowledge, community hours, school information
  • If you plan ahead, you can promote future GEAR-UP events at these meetings
  • Recruitment for IAP meetings include recruitment and reminder phone calls to parents, reminder fliers to students, and offering student incentives

  • BE VISIBLE
  • Attend school-wide events
  • Open house
  • Back to school nights
  • Workshops
  • Weekend events
  • INCLUDE PARENTS
  • College & educational field trips
  • College & community fairs
  • Summer programs
  • Other GEAR-UP & school-wide events
  • You have to show your face and build relationships! This means working evening shifts!

Having a Solid Foundation

GEAR-UP Structure & Support

UCSC GEAR-UP

  • We are a partnership grant with the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • We are one of six organizations in the Educational Partnership Center
  • We have a constant collaboration not only with college-access sister organizations, but community organizations as well

  • This is the third GEAR-UP grant in our region
  • We are starting our fourth year
  • We have a cohort model
  • Current cohort grades are 9th & 10th
  • We serve two traditional high schools
  • Cohort size = About 1,800 students
  • STAFFING
  • 1 Full-time Family Involvement Coordinator for two high schools
  • Other staff include four full-time College Facilitators, a regional and program director, and multiple academic and family involvement interns
  • DISTRICT SUPPORT
  • We work with only one district that fully supports our work
  • We meet with district admin periodically to update them and gauge their support, and they sign an MOU at the beginning of the grant(s)
  • We have full access to the district student database
  • We use school facilities at no extra charge
  • Our schools provide us with a set office space at no cost
  • SUPPORT FOR FIC MODEL
  • The Family Involvement Coordinator (FIC) has a yearly budget of $12-16K
  • We currently have three part-time (19 hours a week) paid family involvement interns
  • We are allowed to pay parents stipends as a small token of appreciation for their work

Watsonville, CA.

  • KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Walk the walk, talk the talk!
  • Know the needs and resources it has
  • Immerse yourself
  • Know about possible collaborators
  • Know the resources available to families
  • BE GENUINE
  • When our work is nestled in the core of our full potential, we cannot differentiate work from life
  • Make it your life's mission to improve the world!
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