How to Support Parent College Knowledge

Toolkit 3 How to Support Parent College Knowledge


Tool 1 – Family-to-Family College Knowledge Guide

This guide provides useful activities for counselors and other educators on building family engagement around college-knowledge, including tips for creating a parent/guardian ambassador network for those who have navigated the college process to connect with parents/guardians who are new to the process. In addition to the PDF version, we have provided this guide as a Microsoft Word document to be editable so you can adapt your copy for district size, community needs, family demographics, etc.


This is a tool in Toolkit 3 – How to Support Parent College Knowledge, which is the first of three toolkits in IDRA’s Community-based College Access – Online Technical Assistance Toolkit.