Family Support in NYS PBIS
Family Involvement Type 1
Parenting
Basic
Responsibilities of Families
Housing,
health, nutrition, clothing, safety
Parenting
skills for all age levels
Home
conditions that support children as students at all grade levels
Information
and activities to help schools understand children and families
Challenges For Schools
Provide information to all families who want it or who need it, not only to the few who attend workshops or meetings at the school building
Enable families to share information with schools about background, culture, talents, goals, and needs
Redefinitions
“Workshop” is not only a meeting on a topic held at the school building, but also the content of that meeting to be viewed, heard, or read at convenient times and varied locations
Expected Outcomes
Students:
Awareness of family supervision; respect for parents
Positive Personal qualities, habits, beliefs, and values, as taught by the family
Balance between time spent on chores, on other activities, and on homework
Good or improved attendance
Awareness of importance of school
Primary Care Giver/Parent/Guardian:
Understanding of and confidence about parenting, child and adolescent development, and changes in home conditions for learning as children proceed through school
Awareness of own and others’ challenges in parenting
Feeling of support from school and other parents
Teachers
Understanding families’ backgrounds, cultures, concerns, goals, needs, and views of their children
Respect for families’ strengths and efforts
Understanding of student diversity
Awareness of own skills to share information on child development
Sample Practices
Suggestions for home conditions that support learning at each grade level
Workshops, videotapes, computerized phone messages on parenting and child rearing for each age and grade level
Opportunity for family education and other courses for parents/caregivers (e.g., GED, college credit, family literacy)
Family support programs to assist families with health, nutrition, and other health services
Home visits at transition points to preschool, elementary, middle, and high school; Neighborhood meetings to help families understand schools and to help schools understand families