Linking to learn and learning to link: building integrated school-based support systems for children and families in a disadvantaged community

该项目将在一个贫困社区的小学和合作福利机构内实施改变了的制度做法，以增加家庭与学校的联系，改善儿童的行为和学习成绩。我们以“路径项目”为基础，该项目改善了弱势学龄前儿童的这些结果，但强调了家庭参与学校的重要性，以实现持久的变化，以及在现有结构下实现这一目标的困难。我们通过培养整个学校的文化变化，提供教师专业发展，以及在学校内找到家庭支持资源来促进家校合作，家庭功能和儿童福祉来应对这一挑战。

The project will implement in a disadvantaged community changed institutional practices within primary schools and a partner welfare agency to increase family-school connectedness to improve children's behaviour and school performance. We build on the Pathways Project, which improved these outcomes for vulnerable preschool children, but highlighted the critical importance of family involvement with schools to effect enduring change and the difficulties of achieving this within current structures. We address this challenge by nurturing whole-school culture change, providing teacher professional development, and locating family support resources within schools to promote home-school partnerships, family functioning, and child well-being.