Baby face qualitative Evaluation
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ParentsAsTeachers BabyFACE QualEvaluationReport 1-15
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Baby FACE Wilder Research, January 2015 Qualitative Evaluation 32 Challenges Low attendance Over 30 staff members (parent educators and supervisors alike) at 17 sites mentioned attendance being a challenge in implementing Family Circles, either initially or on an ongoing basis. Transportation and distance were primary reasons (as detailed above), but scheduling around families’ busy schedules was also difficult. In cases where families were juggling work and school schedules, it was difficult to get families to attend an evening event, even if a meal was provided, and still be home at a reasonable hour to bathe and put their kids to bed. Parent educators experimented by scheduling Family Circles at different times. To overcome transportation issues, some parent educators were able to use school vehicles to transport families since they were not allowed to transport families in program-funded vehicles. We had tried initially to change the meeting times to see if that would help attendance. But we wanted it to be as predictable as possible. A lot of families do not have transportation to come to the Family Circle. That [parent educators] cannot transport their families. Most of them want to participate, but they don’t have any type of transportation to come to the school. We have talked about whether we could do the Family Circle closer to home. But people live distances apart, and then there is the condition of the roads and the availability of transportation. The biggest challenge is in trying to get the parents to come together. I see that the parents who come are within a radius of two or three miles. So there is the challenge of getting this to the parents that can most benefit from it. We have tried to do meetings in the mornings, in the daytime. We can’t really fit the needs of all our parents, because everyone has a different working schedule. Parents in the focus groups who had not attended Family Circles noted similar reasons – busy schedules or transportation challenges. Download 0.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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