Action Team 6
Family Engagement

OBJECTIVE
Design an intentional family engagement strategy for Raising Readers Nashville.

Team co-chairs

  • Mandy McDermott, TN Voices

Current team

  • Patricia Bashir, Nashville Public Library

  • Melissa Binkley, Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Regional Intervention Program (RIP)

  • Bethany Burney, Corner to Corner / Script to Screen

  • Kelli Fly, Tennessee Child Care Resource & Referral Network

  • Ashley Gish, MNPS Parent Advisory Council (PAC)

  • Ashford Hughes, Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS)

  • Yolanda Jackson, Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), Office of Family and Community Partnerships

  • Samantha Johnson, Youth Encouragement Services (YES)

  • Kenya McGee-Agnew, The Metropolitan Action Commission Head Start Program

  • Lhorraine Polite, Raphah Institute

  • Morgan Tubbs, Alignment Nashville

  • Nikki Walker, East Nashville Hope Exchange

Fast facts

  • Focused age group: 0-8

  • Timeline: 18 months

DOMAIN FOCUS

Supported and Supportive Families and Communities

  • Skilled and Knowledgeable Parents

Strategy 1

Conduct a landscape analysis to: identify barriers that hinder family engagement; understand existing institutions, groups, and communities working to support engagement of families who have children ages 0-8.

SUCCESS METRICS:
Development and publication of landscape analysis

Identification of strategies based on landscape analysis findings

Strategy 2

Define what family engagement looks like for Raising Readers Nashville (RRN) and identify next steps for engaging families in alignment with definition.

SUCCESS METRICS:
Shared definition of family engagement for RRN 

Clear next steps set for engaging families in RRN in alignment with definition