Faith-Based Organizations

Below are just some of the ways you can celebrate Family Day with families in your community:

  • 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 or view additional options by clicking here. To read a bulletin essay about the benefits of family dinners, click here. 
  • Mention Family Day and the importance of family dinners in your sermon. To read a recent sermon about family dinners, click here. 
  • Host a Family Day event such as a potluck dinner, barbeque or other family friendly activity on or leading up to Family Day.
  • 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 phots of Family Day mealtime or shots of fun indoor or outdoor family time
    • 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 groups Family Day cookbook.
  • Ask local elected officials to issue a Family Day proclamation and to attend your event.  For a sample proclamation request letter and sample proclamation, click here
  • Tell the local press about your event.  For a sample press release, click here.
  • Order Family Day brochures and magnets 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.