America's Promise Alliance

Organizations with expertise in parent engagement

This is a selection of national organizations with resources and programs designed to engage and support parents and caregivers around their children’s education. Below is a selected listing of numerous national organizations, including many partners in the America’s Promise Alliance, that have expertise, resources and programs designed to engage and support parents and caregivers around their children’s education.

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Provides grants for programs that support the most vulnerable children and families in America
• ACT
  Provides college planning resources for parents and students
• American Academy of Pediatrics
  Provides a parenting corner with an assortment of publications relating to child health and development from birth through high school
• Association for Middle Level Education
  Provides a series of publications for parents around their involvement in their child’s life during middle school
• ASPIRA
  Provides resource for Latino parents to assist them in learning about negotiating change and improving education in their communities
• Attendance Works
  Provides information, including pledge cards, factsheets, toolkits, webinars, and research, to parents, schools, and school districts.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America
  Provides a variety of parent engagement resources related to developing youth by strengthening families.
• Casey Family Programs
  Provides a variety of resources to support foster parents, caregivers and birth parents
• Child Welfare League of America
  Provides multiple resources and tips for all parents on raising children and working within the community to increase the support for parents and parenting
• Children’s Aid Society
  Provides programs, workshops, technical assistance/preventive services, home-based services, and legal assistance
• College Board
  Provides college planning  resources for parents and students
• Community Matters
  Provides parent education workshops and staff development seminars
• Corporate Voices for Working Families
  Provides research, reports, advocacy, and workshops
• Families and Schools Together, Inc.
  Provides parent involvement programs and prevention/intervention programs for parents, educators, law enforcement agents, CBOs, health care workers, and community members; also provides various after-school programs to schools and families
• Families in Schools
  Provides curriculum, trainings, advocacy/outreach, custom capacity building, and grant opportunities
• Military Child Education Coalition
  Provides programs, workshops/support systems, resources, products, outreach through engagement, advocacy, and partnerships to ensure that all military children have access to inclusive, quality educational experiences
• Mocha Moms
  Provides resources to supports mothers of color who have chosen to not work outside the home in order to devote more time to their families and communities
• National Association of College Admission Counseling
  Provides a variety of preparation and planning resources designed to help parents whose children are entering or preparing for college
• National Association of Elementary School Principals
  Provides a variety of informational bulletins in English and Spanish for parents of elementary and middle school children
• National Association of Secondary School Principals
  Provides an assortment of resources for secondary school principals related to parent and family engagement and involvement
• National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)
  Provides parent engagement resources to African American parents to help them become educated, motivated and inspired to excel in all aspects of their child’s life
• National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
  Provides programs, research, and advocacy focused on helping individuals with learning disabilities to succeed 
• National Center for School Engagement (NCSE)
  Provides program evaluation and assessment, research, technical assistance, and trainings to school districts, law enforcement agencies, courts, and state and federal agencies
• National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE)
  Provides a variety of resources centered around parent engagement in education
• National Council of La Raza
  Provides support for Hispanic Americans by conducing research, policy analysis, and advocacy
• National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
  Provides parents with family engagement resources and strategies for Dropout Prevention
• National Fatherhood Initiative
  Provides multiple resources for fathers who are involved or would like to become involved in their child’s educational success
• National Foster Parent Association
  Provides a list of organizations and resources that support foster parents and families to ensure positive educational outcomes for youth in foster care
• National Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University  
  Provides resources for schools and educators around family and community involvement to help  increase student success in school
• National PIRC Coordination Center
  Serves as a technical assistance resource for the Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRC) providing numerous resources relating to parent training and parent involvement in a student’s academic achievement
• National PTA
  Provides an assortment of resources for parents and teachers around family involvement in a child’s success in school from the largest volunteer advocacy association in the country
• New Frontier 21
  Provides educators and entire school districts with trainings centered on closing the achievement gap 
• Office of Head Start, Administration for Children, Youth and Families
  Provides numerous resources to build strong  family and community partnerships with Head Start programs
• Parent-Child Home Program
  Provides programs that focus on early childhood literacy, school readiness, and parenting
• Parents As Teachers
  Provides support and information on parent engagement in a child’s early life, specifically pregnancy through kindergarten
• Parents for Public Schools
  Provides networking, trainings and advocacy to strengthen public schools
• Pritchard Committee for Academic Excellence’s Center for Parent Leadership
  Provides resources for parents centered around parent leadership, engagement and partnerships
• Raising a Reader
  Provides programing focused on developing literacy skills and routines in children
• Reach Out and Read
  Provides a model for promoting early literacy and school readiness by partnering with medical providers
• Rural School & Community Trust
  Provides a variety of services, including trainings, technical assistance, mentoring, and research, to increase the capacity of rural schools to provide high quality public education
• Scholarship America
  Provides resources for parents to guide them and their children through major life transitions, advocate for their children in school, and navigate college admissions and financial aid
• Schools and Families Engaged (SAFE)
  Provides a program that supports family engagement and a safe-learning environment
• Search Institute
  Provides tools and information to assist parents  to be more deeply and effectively involved in their children’s lives
• United Way of America
  Provides information to parents and community partners of the importance of active participation in the education of children birth through 21, and the role United Ways across the country play in supporting education
• US Department of Education Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRC)
  Provides information about the Department of Education’s support for Parental Information and Resources Centers (PIRCs) and resources for parents in supporting their children in all aspects of their education
• Zero to Three
  Provides trainings and information on the development of infants and toddlers