Promoting #Familyhood
Familyhood is a systemic approach of building sustainable communities utilizing schools as the center
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Our mission is to promote programs that bring the generations together
Familyhood is driven by two motto's:
1) every should should have a functioning Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association, Alumni Association and Friends of Schools . 2) every school should have a garden, farmers market and a grocery store.”
Download The Familyhood Handbook
Download The Familyhood Handbook here.
Where do we go from here?
Seeking schools to Teach Familyhood
We are currently seeking schools to teach Familyhood.
Schools would utilixe the book : The Familyhood Handbook as the main curriculum.
Schools would implement 1st Saturdays- official monthly volunteer days at the school.
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Start 1st Saturdays- Monthly Volunteer Day at Your School
Our 2026 calendar starts with MLK Day of Service January 19th, 2026.
After MLK Day of Service, our vision is to continue the projects started by MLK Day of Service once a month- every 1st Saturday of the month at schools.
Friends of The Schools support Familyhood
While Familyhood in short is a coalition of members from a school’s Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association, Alumni Association, Familyhood defines everyone else, i.e. individuals who are not directly related to the school – meaning not a student, parent, alumni, teacher as friends of the school.
Learn more at Friendsofschool.org
The Familyhood Summit (- Elections - Oct 3rd, 2026
Calling Student Governements! Calling Parent Teacher Assocations! Calling Alumni Associations! Calling Friends of schools! join the Familyhood Summit – Elections conversation Oct 3rd and share your best practices. Share things you are doing and plans for the upcoming school-year.
Save the date:MLK Day of Service - January 19th, 2026
Plant the seed of service in 2026 on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service January 19th 2026.
and grow the project every 1st Saturday of the month.
The 23rd Oakland International Film Festival adds Familyhodod theme to promote school-based organizations impacts on community development.
The 23rd Oakland International Film Festival kicks-off September 11th – 20th 2025 at various venues in the city of Oakland. Currently, OIFF
About Us
Our msision is to promote programs that bring the generations together.
Co-founded in 1994, by David N. Roach, The Familyhood Connection Inc aka Mo Better Food helped establish markets for Black Farmers in the Bay Area by establishing a farmers market in West Oakland called the Mo’ Better Food Market.
Our Programs
Mo' Better Food- Black Farmers to Markets in the Bay Area
Motto 2 of Familyhood states, ” Every school should have a garden, farmers market and a grocery store. “
We call this motto Mo’ Better Food.
Over the years we have managed school gardens, set-up the first school-based farmers market in California and initiated the first co-op grocery store in Oakland, now The Mandela Food’s Co-op.
After hosting the Mo’ Better Food Market at McClymonds High School, we recieved a three -year planning grant from the U.S.D.A. to plan/ expand the farmers market into what became Mandela Food’s Co-op.
1st Saturdays is the "do now" strategy to advance a community towards Familyhood.
Familyhood is a 20 year vision. 1st Saturdays is a monthly strategy to advance towards Familyhood’s 20 year vision.
Although, each school decides the iteniarary of the 1st Saturdays event, we suggest meeting at the garden or proposed garden (if you don’t have one yet). Each month the school meets at its school garden. Each month the school’s Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association and Alumni members give updates, share opportunities, meet local businesses *friends of the school. Together, we grow!
Friends of School seeks local businesses to join !
We, The Familyhood Connection Inc, view ourselves as the first “Friends of Schools” and are seeking other businesses to join us.
We believe local businesses would want to employ students with leadership skills, parents engaged with their children’s eduation and alumni involved with their community.
Join at: https://friendsofschool.org
Our means of production is to produce Alumni
The ultimate goal of Familyhood is to produce Alumni. We beleive, the more Alumni a community produces the more developed a community, will become.” Typically, especually in under-served communities, when a student graduates from lets say, high- school, they graduate and then their relationship is over. The Familyhood School attempts to redirect the graduates into joining the school’s Alumni Association. Within the Familyhood frmework, the Alumni are given the added role of mentoring The Student Government Association.
“1st Saturdays is the “do now” strategy to advance towards Familyhood ”
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#MOBETTER FOOD is the 2nd motto of #Familyhood
#MoBetterFood states "every school shall have a garden, a farmers market and grocery store.' Especially in low-income communities, #MoBetterfood emphasizes these low-cost , healthy, start-ups as school Thus, to provide an effective aid to the problem of these men,...
1st Saturdays kicks off in October of 2017
For Immediate Release: 1st Saturdays will kick off October 7th, 2017 We are revamping our site: 1stSaturdays.com to promote schools to sign up between now and October 7th. We will have a both space at the upcmoing Oakland Volunteer Fair on September 9th. As a matter...
#Familyhood defines schools as the hub for community development
#Familyhood defines schools as the hub for community development. #Familyhood is an inter-generational approach of creating collaboration from within the school. The vision of the big head, pictured here, is a symbol of one of the main functions of the school. But one...
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