Good afternoon NAF 2010 Participants! Building Partnerships with Parents This workshop will give participants an overview of how to sustain a partnership with parents through collaboration with Business Partners and the local Chamber of Commerce. Participants will hear about Chavez High School’s efforts to forge a partnership with the East End Chamber of Commerce and how this four-year collaboration now provides parents opportunities to become involved with their child’s education.

Parent Participation is the Gateway to Community Involvement.

Near Self-Sustaining Enrollment: Word of Mouth; Recruitment Support Open Communication: Trust from Families; Feedback; Change Access to Capital: Human; Financial; Intellectual

COLLABORATION CONSISTENCY OUTREACH

COLLABORATION CONSISTENCY OUTREACH East End Chamber of Commerce Student-Parent Dinners Flyers and Telling Students to Come

The Tale of Five Souls The Lesson? BUY-IN OUTREACH

PARENTS CHAVEZ EECOC

WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY ENVISION? HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BENEFIT? WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED? WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY ENVISION? HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BENEFIT? WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED? Parent Participation At Your Academy

Our Work is In Progress: I hope this program has given you a couple of things: -A starting point -A perspective -Some points to validate your work

A special thanks to you! Stephanie Rivera Deborah Jaques