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Operation Xcel's Parent Engagement Nights and our Parent Café are among our best-kept secrets. Parent Engagement Nights offer a plethora of engagement strategies with parents and educators. Parent Cafés are a collaboration with ADS-Alcohol & Drug Services. A Parent Café is a structured yet informal event designed to provide a physically and emotionally safe space for parents to discuss the challenges and successes of raising a family. These sessions focus on deep self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, allowing parents to explore their strengths and share wisdom and strategies to improve their lives. Parent Cafés are guided by the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors framework, which aims to improve family resilience, parenting skills, and community support networks.
Parent Cafés are guided by the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors framework, focusing on family resilience, parenting skills, and community support. They are parent-led and emphasize cultural responsiveness, free childcare, and transportation assistance to ensure accessibility.
Parent Engagement Nights and Cafés encourage ongoing relationships between families and educators, promote mutual support, build trust and respect, and focus on student learning and achievement.
In summary, Parent Engagement Nights along with Parent Cafe's are effective tools for promoting family engagement by fostering ongoing relationships, mutual support, trust, respect, and a focus on student learning and achievement.
