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Get to know us!
Advisory Committee Meeting
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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.
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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
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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
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What do Parent Mentors do?
Build partnerships between
home, school and community
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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
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What do Parent Mentors do?
Provide support to families
– One-to-one mentoring/consulting
• Individualized support via meeting, telephone, or
e-mail,
• Provide Shadowing opportunities through PTA Special
Needs Committee
– Group mentoring/consulting
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Parent Support Group Sessions
Informal Luncheon Sessions
Monthly Meetings
Panels participant , Workshops and Conferences
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What do Parent Mentors do?
Participate on
key stakeholder committees
(school, district and state level as well as in the community)
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Stakeholder Committees
• 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
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Workshops
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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
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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
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Authentic Inclusion
What about Special Needs?
• Response To
Intervention (All
levels)
• Gifted and
Talented Program
• Math & Science
• Common Core
• Social Workers
• Post- Secondary
Transition
Committee Higher
Education
• Title 1
• Counselor
• Effective Teacher in
Every Classroom
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What do Parent Mentors do?
Focus on increasing the parent
satisfaction rate reported on the
Special Education Parent Survey
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APS Parent Survey Trend
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41.2
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36.6
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Percent
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Participation
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17.8
Satisfaction
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8.2
2.4
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2012
2013
2014
Year
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2014-2015 Parent Survey Selection
School
SNPTA
Coordinator
Lead Teacher
Finch Elementary
No
Katika Lovett
Maisha Jack
Perkerson Elementary School
yes
Katika Lovett
Vicki Austell
The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools
No
Troy Keller
Krystal Cooper
Lin Elementary School
No
Tom Munn
Gina Matias
Continental Colony Elementary School
yes
Tom Munn
Carrie Conley
Fain Elementary School
No
Troy Keller
Angelete Taylor
Fickett Elementary School
No
Tom Munn
Keisha White
Dunbar Elementary School
No
Troy Keller
Krystal Cooper
F. L. Stanton Elementary School
No
Tom Munn
Ernestine Northern
South Atlanta School of Health and Medical Science
No
Carolyn Harris
Chauncei Whitmore
No
No
No
No
yes
Yes
Carolyn Harris
Carolyn Harris
Chang Robbins
Anne Dirden
Anne Dirden
Anne Dirden
Felicia Gilley
Michelle Lowe
Kisha Morgan-Dennis
Kristy Dixon
Wilhemena Register
Stephanie Govan
Booker T. Washington High School - Health, Sciences and
Nutrition
Crim High School
Douglass High School
Long Middle School
Inman Middle School
Sutton Middle School
Coan Middle School
Kennedy Middle School
Closed
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What do Parent Mentors do?
Report data driven
accountability through a goal
established in their Annual Plan
that focuses on a
performance indicator
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PTA Special Needs Committee
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
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.
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Grady High School
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Parent
Liaison
PTA
Special
Needs
Committee
Parent
Concern
INDICATOR # (SPP 9 & 10) Decrease the disproportionate representation of
students with disabilities due to inappropriate policies, procedures, and
practices.
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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.
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GaDOE's
Family Engagement Strategies
1. IDENTIFY Parent Leaders Among the
Students Who Are Being Identified
2. EMBED Family Engagement into the
work of Achievement
3. COLLABORATE
School/Home/Community
PTA’s Standards
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Our Partners
• Georgia Parent Leadership Coalition (PLC):
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Babies Can’t Wait – Skilled Credentialed Early Interventionists
Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
Center for Leadership in Disabilities at Georgia State University
Georgia Council on 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 Family Connection Partnership
– Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia
– Parent to Parent of GA – Georgia’s Parent Training Information Center (PTI)
Community Partnerships
• Fulton County Kinship
Care
• Healthy Grandparent
Project @ Georgia
State University
• Morehouse School
Medicine
• Fulton County
Interagency Council
• Fulton County Babies
Can’t Wait
• S.T.A.R.T
• Project GRAD
• West Side Alliance
• YoBoulevard
• Real Talk
• GaTech
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Internal Partners
• Title I Family
Engagement
Specialists,
• Title I Local School
Parent Liaisons,
• District Homeless
Liaison,
• Counselor
• ESOL Regional
Community Liaisons,
• Truancy Intervention
Specialist,
• Atlanta Council PTA,
• District-wide Family
Involvement Liaison
• Local School Council
Liaison
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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
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Motivated to Make a difference
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Our Websites
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www.parentmentors.org
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www.gaspdg.org
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How can we be a
resource to you?
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Thank you!
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Edith Abakare
Phone: 404-802-3607
Email: [email protected]
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Rose Calloway
Phone: 404-802-2633
Email: [email protected]
For Additional information or questions you can contact:
Anne Ladd, Family Engagement Specialist
GaDOE, Division for Special Education Services & Supports
[email protected] 404-657-7328
Debbie Currere, Parent Support Specialist,
Georgia’s State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG)
[email protected]
770-722-6250
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