1. Advisory Committee Meeting Get to know us! Date1

2. The Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership is parents and professionals working together to improve outcomes for students with disabilities by enhancing communication and collaboration between families, educators, and the community. 6/10/20152

3. GaPMP Facts -An initiative of the GA Dept of Education, Division for Special Education Services & Supports -Partially funded with IDEA funds to impact student achievement by increasing family engagement -Piloted in 2002 with 5 parent mentors in 5 districts -In 2014 -- 100 parent mentors in 90 school districts 6/10/20153

4. Who are Parent Mentors? A parent of a child with a disability who is currently or has previously received special education related services through an IEP Employed by the local school district to engage and support families in bridging home, school and community 6/10/20154

5. What do Parent Mentors do? Build partnerships between home, school and community 6/10/20155

6. What do Parent Mentors do? Provide support, resources, training/workshop to parents, teachers and administrators Participate on key stakeholder committees (school, district and state level as well as in the community 6/10/20156

7. What do Parent Mentors do? Provide support to families 6/10/20157 – One-to-one mentoring/consulting Individualized support via meeting, telephone, or e-mail, Provide Shadowing opportunities through PTA Special Needs Committee – Group mentoring/consulting Parent Support Group Sessions Informal Luncheon Sessions Monthly Meetings Panels participant, Workshops and Conferences

8. What do Parent Mentors do? Participate on key stakeholder committees (school, district and state level as well as in the community) 6/10/20158

9. Stakeholder Committees 6/10/20159 Active participant Stakeholder and CASE Committee Member of Superintendent Advisor Committee Attend OSPS Staff Meeting Work with Wrap Around Task Force Title 1 Advisory Meeting Therrell High School CTI Advisory Committee

10. Workshops P2P - Peace, Love, Harmony and IEP P2P - A Brief Overview of Assistive Technology P2P - Making IT Count - … Get to Measurable Goals P2P - What A Great I.D.E.A.! P2P - Georgia Medicaid Workshop Program for Exceptional Children Parent Meeting Transition (Grade level break-out sessions) Open House Parent Café PTA Outreach at the Zoo PTA Leadership PTA Family of Learning PTA Discipline Conference 6/10/201510 12 Steps to Effective Communication w/child Best Practices Academy “Parent/Teacher Communication” PEC Character Camp Fulton County Surrogate Parent Training Atlanta Public Schools Special Olympics District Wide Parent Workshop Babies Can’t Wait Transition to – Pre-K – Pre-K to Elementary – Elementary to Middle – Middle to High – High to Post-Secondary Outcomes

11. Authentic Inclusion What about Special Needs? Response To Intervention (All levels) Gifted and Talented Program Math & Science Common Core Social Workers 6/10/201511 Post- Secondary Transition Committee Higher Education Title 1 Counselor Effective Teacher in Every Classroom

12. What do Parent Mentors do? Focus on increasing the parent satisfaction rate reported on the Special Education Parent Survey 6/10/201512

13. APS Parent Survey Trend 6/10/201513

14. 2014-2015 Parent Survey Selection SchoolSNPTACoordinatorLead Teacher Finch ElementaryNoKatika LovettMaisha Jack Perkerson Elementary SchoolyesKatika LovettVicki Austell The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary SchoolsNoTroy KellerKrystal Cooper Lin Elementary SchoolNoTom MunnGina Matias Continental Colony Elementary SchoolyesTom MunnCarrie Conley Fain Elementary SchoolNoTroy KellerAngelete Taylor Fickett Elementary SchoolNoTom MunnKeisha White Dunbar Elementary SchoolNoTroy KellerKrystal Cooper F. L. Stanton Elementary SchoolNoTom MunnErnestine Northern South Atlanta School of Health and Medical ScienceNoCarolyn HarrisChauncei Whitmore Booker T. Washington High School - Health, Sciences and NutritionNoCarolyn HarrisFelicia Gilley Crim High SchoolNoCarolyn HarrisMichelle Lowe Douglass High SchoolNoChang RobbinsKisha Morgan-Dennis Long Middle SchoolNoAnne DirdenKristy Dixon Inman Middle SchoolyesAnne DirdenWilhemena Register Sutton Middle SchoolYesAnne DirdenStephanie Govan Coan Middle School Closed Kennedy Middle School 6/10/201514

15. What do Parent Mentors do? Report data driven accountability through a goal established in their Annual Plan that focuses on a performance indicator 6/10/201515

16. PTA Special Needs Committee 6/10/201516 Indicator #8 Improve the percentage of parents of children receiving special education services who report that schools encourage parent involvement to improve results for students with disabilities. 1.PTA Special Committee leader(s) functions as parent representative on school wide initiatives address those individual needs/concerns/issues that are unique to parents of children with special needs within a school. collaborate with district Parent Mentors in supporting district/region level initiatives. 2.Potential candidate for project Parent Mentor next years annual reports

17. Grady High School 6/10/201517 PTA Special Needs Committee GF Parent Concern Parent Liaison INDICATOR # (SPP 9 & 10) Decrease the disproportionate representation of students with disabilities due to inappropriate policies, procedures, and practices.

18. What is Family Engagement? Family Engagement is any way that a child’s family (biological parents, foster parents, siblings, grandparents, etc.) effectively supports the child’s learning and healthy development. 6/10/201518

19. GaDOE's Family Engagement Strategies 1. IDENTIFY Parent Leaders Among the Students Who Are Being Identified 2. EMBED Family Engagement into the work of Achieveme nt 3. COLLABORATE School/Home/Community

20. PTA’s Standards 6/10/201520

21. Our Partners Georgia Parent Leadership Coalition (PLC): – Babies Can’t Wait – Skilled Credentialed Early Interventionists Babies Can’t Wait – Skilled Credentialed Early Interventionists – Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning – Center for Leadership in Disabilities at Georgia State University Center for Leadership in Disabilities at Georgia State University – Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities – Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities – Georgia Department of Education, Division for Special Education Supports and Services; Parent Mentor Partnership Georgia Department of Education, Division for Special Education Supports and Services; Parent Mentor Partnership – Georgia Family Connection Partnership Georgia Family Connection Partnership – Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia – Parent to Parent of GA – Georgia’s Parent Training Information Center (PTI) Parent to Parent of GA – Georgia’s Parent Training Information Center (PTI)

22. Community Partnerships Fulton County Kinship Care Healthy Grandparent Project @ Georgia State University Morehouse School Medicine Fulton County Interagency Council 6/10/201522 Fulton County Babies Can’t Wait S.T.A.R.T Project GRAD West Side Alliance YoBoulevard Real Talk GaTech

23. Internal Partners Title I Family Engagement Specialists, Title I Local School Parent Liaisons, District Homeless Liaison, Counselor 6/10/201523 ESOL Regional Community Liaisons, Truancy Intervention Specialist, Atlanta Council PTA, District-wide Family Involvement Liaison Local School Council Liaison

24. How do districts apply to participate? Each spring, districts are provided with an Application for Participation that outlines the criteria for the position and the funds. The application is signed by both the Special Education Director and School Superintendent 6/10/201524

25. Motivated to Make a difference 6/10/201525

26. Our Websites 6/10/201526

27. www.parentmentors.org 6/10/201527

28. www.gaspdg.org 6/10/201528

29. How can we be a resource to you? 6/10/201529

30. Thank you! 6/10/201530 For Additional information or questions you can contact: Anne Ladd, Family Engagement Specialist GaDOE, Division for Special Education Services & Supports aladd@doe.k12.ga.usaladd@doe.k12.ga.us 404-657-7328 Debbie Currere, Parent Support Specialist, Georgia’s State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) dcurrere@pioneerresa.orgdcurrere@pioneerresa.org 770-722-6250 Edith Abakare Phone: 404-802-3607404-802-3607 Email: eabakare@atlanta.k12.ga.useabakare@atlanta.k12.ga.us Rose Calloway Phone: 404-802-2633404-802-2633 Email: rcalloway@atlanta.k12.ga.usrcalloway@atlanta.k12.ga.us