Working with Culturally Diverse Families

National Parent Involvement and Family Engagement Organizations  

• Center for Family Involvement at Virginia Commonwealth University

  Family involvement resources for families of children with disabilities.

• Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships

  Current research, programs, and policy analyses to help inform parents, educators, and members of communities on how to work together to improve schools, strengthen families, and enhance student learning and development.

• Global Family Resource Project(successor to the Harvard Family Resource Project)

  Information on effective ways to support family involvement in children’s learning and development.

• National Association of School Psychologists - Recommended Diversity Websites

  List of resources for school professional on working with linguistically and culturally diverse families.

• National Policy Forum for Family, School, and Community Engagement - Resources

  Materials and information developed for the National Policy Forum on Family, School, and Community Engagement, held in Washington, D.C. in 2010, which brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to develop a policy strategy that fosters systemic, integrated, and sustainable family and community engagement that connects to student learning.

• Center for Parent Information and Resources

  Central resource of information and products to the community of Parent Training Information (PTI) Centers and the Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs).

• The SEDL National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools

  Toolkits, research, webinars and handouts for school professionals on how to improve school, community and family collaboration.