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Harmony/VISTA Service Learning Demonstration Project

Parent Engagement

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Parent, Teacher, Student Association (PTSA)

At several Indiana schools, Harmony VISTA members help engage parents in the PTSA by recruiting parents, helping to organize meetings and events, developing trainings, and engaging parents in school reform activities. At Northwest High School in Indianapolis the Harmony VISTA member helped organize a parent forum on gang violence. A panel of students, police officers, and community members informed parents about gang related issues and answered questions related to gang violence in the community. Over 60 parents attended.

Parent Forums and Parent Congress In 2004 the first annual Parent Congress for over 200 parents was held in Indianapolis. Harmony VISTA members helped plan the Congress with the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) and the Indiana Center for Family School and Community Partnerships. The purpose of the Congress was to spread information and knowledge about small school reform to parents in the IPS district. Parents from the five high schools going through this reform attended. A second Parent Congress is in the planning stages and will be held in the spring of 2005.

Other Projects

To learn more about how the Harmony VISTA Project engages parents and community members in schools, click on the following links:

Youth Leadership Development

Service Learning

Student Engagement in School Reform

Student Led Research