Youth and Family Leadership: Powerful Family School Community Partnerships in South Texas

• In Event: 34.079 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 34.079-15 - Issues of Leadership in Family, School, and Community Collaborations

Abstract

Comunitario projects in the poorest communities (colonias) of south Texas are modeling a new kind of family engagement in education: intergenerational family leadership. Youth and families are working together to increase educational equity and improve educational outcomes. Community-based Comunitarios are innovative community and family partnerships whose sole purpose is to collaborate with schools to improve the success of students in the community. The collaboration of community-based organizations and an educational research team provided an excellent platform for studying intergenerational family leadership in education. This poster reports on the results of research on youth and family leadership in the Comunitarios.

Authors

• Nancy F. Chavkin, Texas State University - San Marcos

• Aurelio Montemayor, Intercultural Development Research Association