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How can I get involved?

Below are just some of the ways you can celebrate Family Day: 

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Encourage parents to pledge to be a Family Day STAR. You can use our Family Day STAR pledge form to collect STAR pledges at your events. Click here to download your form today.

Write about Family Day and the importance of family dinners in your bulletin, newsletter or website.  For a sample blurb, click here.

  • If you are a faith-based organization, you could write about Family Day in your publications or mention the  importance of family dinners in a sermon. To read a sample blurb for your bulletin, click here and to read a bulletin essay about the benefits of family dinners, click here. To read a sermon about family dinners, click here.
  • Create a Family Day Contest:     
    • Drawing contests – Who can make the best dinner placemat, festive dinner place cards or creative Family Day posters.
    • Photo contest  – Submit photos of Family Day mealtime or shots of fun indoor or outdoor family activities.
    • Essay contest themes – “Why family dinners are important to me,”  “How I celebrated Family Day” or “My favorite family memory or tradition is...”
    • Recipe contest – Collect homemade recipes and have a friendly bake-off or taste testing contest. Entries can be used to create your group’s Family Day cookbook.  You can compile all the entries into a book such as Family Day Sponsor Willis Group Holdings did with artwork and recipes.
  • Ask local elected officials to issue a Family Day proclamation and to attend your event. Please download our sample proclamation request letter/sample proclamation.
  • Host a Family Day event such as a potluck dinner, barbeque or other family friendly activity on or leading up to Family Day.
  • Ask local restaurants or supermarkets to partner with you to offer Family Day discounts or to offer gift certificates or prizes for your contests. Please download our sample restaurant letter. 
  • Order Family Day brochures and materials to distribute at your events and in your neighborhood.
  • Link to www.CASAFamilyDay.org from your site.
  • Review the Family Day Participant Guidelines to help make your celebration a success.