Building positive relationships with families is essential to ensure quality learning experiences for children in afterschool and youth development programs. This lesson provides ideas and strategies to engage families and maintain positive partnerships with families through the school age years. (2 hours)
Lesson objectives
- Learn the benefits of active family engagement in your out-of-school time or youth development program.
- Learn about "Stages of Involvement" and how it applies to the families in your out-of-school time program.
- Identify strategies to create and maintain positive partnerships with families in after school and youth development programs.
