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Home > Effective Practices for Service Events: National Family Week

Effective Practices for Service Events: National Family Week

  • Connecting incarcerated parents and their children through inmates' recorded readings of books
  • Connecting rural families to parenting resources
  • Designing a family literacy program
  • Developing community gardening spaces for low-income families
  • Increasing parent attendance at family night activities
  • Involving families in tutoring programs
  • Suggesting ideas to families to encourage reading and writing at home
  • Supporting family and friends of homicide victims
  • Supporting servicemen and women and their families
  • Using a family-oriented approach to English as a Second Language instruction
  • Using family clubs to maintain community well being
  • Using teams of volunteers to assist families out of poverty
  • Using thematic backpacks to encourage family literacy
  • Volunteering as a family: 20 tips

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