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KnowledgeBases > The Writing Successful Grants KnowledgeBase > Element 1 > Activity 1 > Task 5: Assess Family and Community Involvement

Guideline:

Family involvement is an important part of a child's education. Knowing how parents are involved, the type of activities they participate in, and level of participation may be useful when compiling the grant proposal. Understanding the community's demographics, socio-economic status, and health profiles is important when assessing the community's  impact on the school and students. Depending on the nature of the grant sought, a community assessment may be a useful part of the grant proposal.

Checklists Family and Community Data Elements

This chart from the U.S. Department of Education publication, An Idea Book on Planning, Vol. I, Implementing Schoolwide Programs, provides a checklist of data elements related to family and community involvement for inclusion in a school profile.

Checklists Strenghtening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist _EXTERNAL_LINK

This Coalition for Community Schools document contains three checklists designed to help schools assess partnership activities within their community.

Tools Characteristics of Our Community

This worksheet from the Washington Education Association's Building Community Connections publication may help school leaders create a community profile.

Alternate format: PDF

Tools Measure of School, Family, and Community Partnerships _EXTERNAL_LINK

This tool was developed in collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Education Northwest, the former Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.  As noted in the document's opening, "it is intended to measure how your school is reaching out to involve parents, community members, and students in a meaningful manner."

Tools School as a Caring Community Profile - II (SCCP-II) _EXTERNAL_LINK

As noted at its website, "the School as a Caring Community Profile-II (SCCP-II) is an instrument developed by the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) to help schools assess themselves as caring communities. The SCCP may be administered at any point (ideally at the beginning) of a character education initiative and then at later points to assess progress."

References Six Types of School-Family-Community Involvement _EXTERNAL_LINK

This National Network of Partnership Schools webpage discusses six types of cooperation among families, schools, and other community organizations as identified by Johns Hopkins University Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships Director Joyce Epstein.

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