Families and Community

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• Educator Literacy Competencies

• Dyslexia Awareness Collaborative

• Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools

  School district administrators can use this framework to plan and implement preventions and interventions that will help reduce chronic absence in prekindergarten through Grade 12.

• Homeless Education

  The federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act requires all school districts to ensure access to public education for children and youth experiencing homelessness and ensure success in school once enrolled.

• Youth Service Bureaus

  Local communities began to develop youth service bureaus in the 1960's as a response to a growing number of issues affecting youth. The role of Youth Service Bureaus (YSBs) has been broadened to include both advocacy and coordination of a comprehensive service delivery system for youth.

• Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child

  The WSCC model provides an infrastructure for schools to engage students, families, staff, and the community to improve the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development of every child.

• School-Family-Community Partnerships

  When schools, families and the community work together, children benefit. School staff, families and community members each make important contributions to student development and success, and the best results come when all three work together as equal partners.

• Commissioner's Roundtable for Family and Community Engagement in Education

  The purpose of the Commissioner's Roundtable for Family and Community Engagement in Education (Commissioner's Roundtable) is to advise the Commissioner of Education regarding policy and programmatic priorities to improve outcomes for all students and advance the State Board of Education's comprehensive plan for equity and excellence in Connecticut schools.

• Chronic Absence

  Good attendance is essential to student achievement! Research shows that absences add up and that good attendance is essential to student achievement and graduation. Whereas, chronic absence and truancy can be lead to school drop-out, academic failure and juvenile delinquency. By removing barriers to attendance, districts, schools and community partners can improve attendance.

• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

  Connecticut's statewide SEL initiative and resources

• Family Resource Centers

  The Connecticut Family Resource Center concept promotes comprehensive, integrated, community-based systems of family support and child development services located in public school buildings.

• School Safety and Security

  Resources to help schools develop plans for ensuring students' safety and security

• Bullying and Harassment

  Bullying cannot be a rite of passage in our nation’s schools. Instead, our schools must be safe and nurturing environments that promote learning and full participation by all students.

• Connecticut Stronger Connections Grant Program

  Connecticut's Stronger Connections Grant (SCG) Program supports high-need school districts with funding to create safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environments; foster a sense of belonging and engagement in school; and improve academic outcomes and reduce violence and disciplinary actions.

• School Nursing

  Guidance and resources for Connecticut’s school nurses.