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Family and community partnership in youth education enable them to succeed in academic life and in later life. Parents who are involved with their youth education are those who consistently demonstrate good parenting skills, communicate with the university staff, volunteer their time, help their youth learn at home, take an active role in university-related decision making, and who regularly collaborate with the university community. Today there is an enormous amount of research arguing that when educational institutions, families, and community groups work together to support learning, youth tend to do better in university, stay in university longer, and like university more. Regardless of family income or background, students with involved parents are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, and enroll in higher-level programs, be promoted, pass their classes, and earn credits, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school, graduate and go on to higher education. Moreover, parental involvement brings both cognitive and improvement in affective areas of educational  performance such as attitude, morale, and self-esteem.This paper presents Joyce Epstein of Johns Hopkins University model who has developed a framework for different types of parental involvement in the context of universities. The paper elaborates the strategies titled as parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making and collaborating with larger community.