Services
ReachOut offers a comprehensive range of services to engage educators in transforming schools and classrooms to effectively serve culturally diverse children and families. Our services broaden and deepen family and community engagement and help providers offer culturally competent services.
What Grounds Our Work – ABCs
- Application: Focused on Workplace Application and Action
- Broad View: Promotion of a Broad View of Culture
- Connected: Rooted in and Connected to New Futures’ Direct Service Work
- Supportive: Supportive and Inclusive (non-threatening) Approach
Our Services
Trainings/Presentations
These services provide one-time professional development opportunities. We recommended these trainings are used to begin conversations about cultural competence or family engagement.
- Tailored Workshops
- Cultural Competence Foundation Training (6 hrs)
- Family/Community Engagement Foundation Training (6 hrs)
Ongoing Support
This service is targeted at schools/districts that want to take a more indepth and sustainable approach to developing and integrating cultural competence. In this model, a ReachOut team member becomes a ’personal trainer’ and tailors training content and works with a school/district on an ongoing basis.
- Sustainability Series (six months to one year)
Train-The-Trainer
This service is for schools/districts that want to create their own internal capacity to provide cultural competence trainings.
- Leading The Conversation Institute (three to six months)
Sample Video Clip
You can watch a short video clip of Heidi Schillinger, ReachOut Director, training on the Center for Learning Connections Facebook page.
To get specific tools you can use, stories, and insights from ReachOut’s cultural competence work, sign up for our eNewsletter. Email Heidi Schillinger, heidis@reachoutfornewfutures.org, to add your name to the list.
Customer Perspective
ReachOut’s Leading The Conversation Institute provided our diversity teams with the skills and knowledge they need to facilitate conversations and develop the capacity of our entire staff to become more culturally competent.
~Tita Mallory, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Aberdeen School District
