NO MORE ISLANDS: Family Involvement in 27 School and Youth
Programs. Donna Walker James & Glenda Partee. American Youth Policy
Forum, 2003. 152 pp. Research on how family influences student success
supports the view that families can enhance the effects of many school
and program initiatives. This report by the American Youth Policy Forum
presents information on 27 programs designed to promote family
involvement in schools. The first section of the report includes a
discussion of the role of families in youth success, and offers
recommendations that challenge practitioners and policymakers to improve
family involvement strategies. The second section of the document
presents 3- to 5-page summaries of the program evaluation for each of
the 27 programs reviewed. The authors include evidence of effectiveness,
descriptions of population served and key components of the program, and
contact information. The programs analyzed tended to focus on young
people in low-income families who are part of ethnic or racial minority
groups and/or who speak a language other than English at home. The
authors draw on the work of Johns Hopkins University researcher Joyce
Epstein to catalog types of family involvement in one of the following
six ways: 1) parenting, 2) communicating, 3) volunteering, 4) learning
at borne, 5) decision making, and 6) collaborating with the community.
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