Parents Reaching Out
Ontario's Parents Reaching Out (PRO) Grants encourage parent engagement at the local, regional and provincial levels. Ontario's PRO Grants are designed to support parents in identifying barriers to engagement in their own community and to find local solutions to involve more parents in support of student achievement and well-being.
There are two types of grants:
Since 2006, the government has supported over 19,500 PRO Grants to school councils and 799 regional/provincial PRO Grants. This is a total investment of nearly $31 million to help increase parent engagement at the local, regional, and provincial levels.