2. Partners for Success Statewide Outreach Center for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Parents and Educators Working Together to Support Families

3. Partnerships Parent Educator Systems

4. Parent and Education Coordinators Working together

5. Manage Center Staffing Schedule Data Collection, Data Management and Data Reporting Distribution of Newsletter and other materials Correspondence Immediate response to a parent requests

6. Public Relations Committee Memberships Speaking Engagements Newsletter Community Fairs Providing Speakers on Various Topics

7. Resource Information System Lending Library Resource Binder Computer Network with Other

8. Training Understanding Special Education IEP Process Transition Signing to Children Problem Solving Recordkeeping Procedural Safeguards and Parent Rights

9. Systems Friend or Foe?

10. Provide Support Location Funding Training In-Kind Support

11. Where to go next? MD State Department of Education Local School System American Society for Deaf Children Family Networks Association for Retarded Citizens Department of Health and Mental Hygiene And the list goes on...

12. Think Out of the Box Be open to bringing more programs to your center

13. Parent to Parent Network Matches parents who have been there with parents who request help

14. Network Host Manage network Provide training Make one-to-one matches Follow up with support

15. Supporting Parent Training One-to-one matches Friendships Support

16. Requesting Parent One-to-one matching Feeling connected Friendship Support

17. Making All The Pieces Fit For Families

18. Questions????? Cheri Dowling Maryann Swann Partners for Success PO Box 894 Columbia, MD 21044 (410) 480-4597 (v/tty) (410) 480-4598 (fax) Partners@msd.edu

19. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly Buckminster Fuller