Parent Café in a Box (Updated and Expanded)
The flagship Parent Café deck updated and expanded, featuring 96 updated questions focusing on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
This Parent Café in a Box has 325 total questions, bilingual in English and Spanish. This revision is co-created by Be Strong Families and its community, with input from people who have both lived and have professional experience with EDI and LGBTQIA+ inclusion and racial equity. Focusing on the five Protective Factors, the Parent Café in a Box is a portable, easy-to-use resource to support your local parent engagement efforts.
Parent Cafés are physically and emotionally safe spaces where people talk and listen to each other on topics that matter to them, such as the challenges and victories of raising a family, navigating landscapes of inequality, enhancing well-being, holding space to grieve, or being involved in the recovery process of someone they love. Through individual deep self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, and by building on the Protective Factors, participants cultivate strategies from their own wisdom and experiences and that of those around the table to strengthen their families. Participants leave Parent Cafés feeling inspired, energized, and excited to put into practice what they have learned.
