This allows for continued improvements to serve the needs of the audience. Recommended practices from program directors focused on practices to build parent involvement to the extent possible. By offering options such as a parent advisory board, obtaining letters of program endorsement from parents, holding open houses, and establishing a parent volunteer program, parents may opt into program activities where they are most comfortable. Offering a high quality program is essential to serve as a model of interaction between adults and children and to garner support from all factions. In order to continue to learn and improve environments for children, frequent evaluation of the program is necessary.
Evaluations can lead to improvements to keep the program vibrant.
These lessons are inter-related and dependent upon actions by other functioning systems. That is, action in the community affects the school and action in the school program affects the family and subsequently the child. Discussion Understanding the interlocking subsystems of the community, school, and family can assure that programs indeed place the child at the center of focus. The school-age care programs in this study were the common thread of interest among these families. This common thread strengthens the community as well as the family system for the child.