Schools, Families, and Community Resources

There are a wide variety of definitions and ways in which people understand healing that have medical, spiritual, and indigenous roots. We at NEP believe that healing is a holistic process and journey to restore and experience health and wholeness to one’s mind, body, and spirit.

Design Principles for Building Belonging Across our planet, people are looking for effective ways to build just, equitable, and inclusive institutions that serve and support everyone.

How artists, communities, and funders can come together to effectively promote local change.

🆕 Hot off the press! @SEALedEQUITY and @CommSchoolsLX released a research brief with strategies around community schools that school and district leaders can easily implement to support multilingual families. ➡️ Check out 4 integrated approaches to strengthen family-school partnerships: https://bit.ly/3CkgPyo #EnglishLearners #CommunitySchools #DualLanguageLearners #Family #EquitableEducation

Many children of Hmong immigrants do not know their parents' native language well. The community does not have a separate nation in Southeast Asia.

Community Schools Forward is a partnership of four organizations collaborating with education practitioners, researchers, and leaders across the country to strengthen the community schools field.

The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.

The U.S. Department of Education virtual Professional Learning Series takes an in-depth look at how community schools can transform student learning and outcomes. The series examines programs from across the country, explores ways that community school approaches can further whole child learning, and digs into the ways that pandemic federal relief funding (including American Rescue Plan funds) have been used to support community schools.

Now, more than ever, these vulnerable students need advocates in schools.

Parents of color and parents of conscience, whose children make up the majority of students in public education, must be centered in conversations on race and inclusive education.

To help newly arrived English language learners feel welcome, teachers can represent their cultures and languages in the classroom.

California public libraries depend on local funding, creating wide disparities among communities across the state.

PUBLICATION BY WENDY AKE   |   UPDATED: AUGUST 25, 2023  

A decade of learning about power building from The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative

Occasional Paper Series Occasional Paper Series Issue 49 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship Introduction by Anna Lees and Megan Bang Indigenous communities, across lands and waters, engage in and build complex knowledge systems emergent from particular values and ways of perceiving...

The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias...

More than 5 million children in the United States are living in deep poverty. Researchers suggest that deep poverty-responsive schools—for instance, schools funded according to fair school finance formulas, designed around community schools principles, and centered on whole child teaching and learning—can address the full range of children’s needs and help heal trauma associated with living in deep poverty.

Much work has been done by Indigenous Peoples and the federal government to understand the ways in which policies contribute to health inequities and to develop potential policy solutions. With that existing work in place, we recommend the Committee look to two additional resources to understand...

Welcome to the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden! Our aim in creating the CIR Digital Garden is to promote and expand the field of Collaborative Indigenous Research. We wish to highlight the methods, ethics, theories of change, and forms of knowledge mobilization present in...

Here are more than 90 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.  We partner with Bookshop. New Activism and Organizing Africa Afro-Latinx American Indians Arabs and Arab Americans Art

A $3B investment in the CCSPP provides resources that can promote the transformation of education & child-serving systems. The potential for progress is huge, but so are the prospects for unintended consequences.

The 2023 National Day of Racial Healing will be Jan. 17 as a time to contemplate our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism. This annual observance is hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and was created with and builds on the work and learnings of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) community partners.

Community schools use a whole child approach so the pressure isn’t solely on teachers to attend to students’ academics, social emotional wellbeing and basic needs.