Our Story
Our Hub supports and uplifts.
We’ve created a potent mix of programming that includes high-quality academic instruction, social/emotional enrichment, community support, tech training and economic development.
Fellowship
Our Family Advocacy Fellowship is an eye opening experience that builds strong and supportive relationships. Parents and grandparents learn about the state of public education, the performance of our schools, and the school choices available. This knowledge empowers Fellowship graduates to become advocates who use their voices to demand a high quality education for their children. Since More than 450 public school parents have graduated from our fellowship.
Outreach
Our REACH Outreach Team hits the streets in our most underserved communities to organize and mobilize parents of children attending our lowest performing schools. We engage parents in our Family Advocacy Fellowship, our learning series and informative community meetings. When you see hundreds of parents at school board meetings wearing our gold shirts, that’s evidence of outreach success. We make sure parent voices are heard in powerful ways.
Support
Finding a high quality school demands time and energy. Our School Enrollment Support team guides parents and guardians through the process of choosing the best schools for their children. Parents are matched with one of our parent advocates who will personally work with them throughout the year. Most of our parent advocates are parents or grandparents who have gone through this process themselves.
Speak Truth to Power
Every child deserves a high-quality education
The Oakland REACH is a parent-run, parent led organization. Our parents know what it’s like to be overlooked, mistreated and miseducated by the school system. We are committed to changing that for future generations. We empower families from our most underserved communities to demand high-quality schools for their children.
We wake parents up.
We have had over 5,000 one-on-one conversations with parents about how schools are failing our children. Nearly 500 parents have gone through our Oakland Family Advocacy Fellowship to learn how to become changemakers.
We support families.
We have guided over 125 families through the school enrollment process. In 2020, we responded to the academic and social/emotional needs of our families by launching our Hub.
We ARE a family.
We listen and respond. We have each others’ backs. The Oakland REACH show ups, speaks up and shakes up. We are changing lives.