Family Resource Center (FRC): Connecting School to Community

Imua Literacy: Moving Hawaiʻi forward with local solutions.

How can we build this bridge from school to home in a way that can be relevant for the world that families live in today? In today’s episode, we’ll focus on one way to do just that: Family Resource Centers (FRC). FRC are community-based or school-based, flexible, family-focused, and culturally sensitive hubs of support and resources that provide programs and targeted services based on the needs and interests of families. FRCs aim to promote a “shared partnership” that can enhance students’ language and literacy learning.

We’ll chat with some familiar friends, Drs. Kat O’Dell and Kathy Ratliffe, but we’ll bring on a new guest, Fuli Soa, who is the director of the Waimanalo School's Family Resource Center. She’ll talk specifically about her experience working at the family resource center and how she views her center’s success.

Your Hosts

• Dr. Esmeralda Carini
• Erin D’ Amelio

Links for you!

• Explore the website of Fuli's family resource center to see its work in action.
• Hawaiʻi Statewide Family Engagement Center publishes tons of resources for families and teachers here in Hawaiʻi. For example, check out their family guide for supporting learning for students in kindergarten to grade 5!
• The National Center for Improving Literacy has so many wonderful resources for parents and families to support their children's reading and writing skills.
• The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with the Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 6 Music

• Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
• "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• "Carpe Diem" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• "Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Fretless Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• "Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/