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Touching Hearts, Changing Minds

Touching Hearts, Changing Minds. Parents as Professional Development Partners Sarah Holland , Mary Mikus, & Camille Catlett National Early Childhood Inclusion Institute May 2014. Pair/Share. Pick a partner Identify leadership roles that families play in your state or region

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Touching Hearts, Changing Minds

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  1. Touching Hearts, Changing Minds Parents as Professional Development Partners Sarah Holland , Mary Mikus, & Camille Catlett National Early Childhood Inclusion Institute May 2014

  2. Pair/Share • Pick a partner • Identify leadership roles that families play in your state or region • Discuss with partner • Share highlights with group

  3. Learning Objectives • Recognize the impact effective family engagement can have on child outcomes and trajectories • Understand the leadership roles families can play in professional development, pre-service learning and other areas • Identify potential emotional, informational, and financial supports that enable family participation

  4. Learning Objectives • Be aware of the initial broad based national support that created this project and the evolution into the current PA model • Relate the Pennsylvania model to similar approaches in your own state • Become inspired to increase opportunities for family leadership in state and local programs

  5. The Difference You Can Make Through Family Engagement • Higher preschool performance and promotion to next grade • More positive engagement with peers, adults, and learning • Buffers negative impact of poverty on academic and behavioral outcomes

  6. PA Efforts to Build Family Leadership Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policy Making for Families of Children in Early Intervention (C2P2 EI)

  7. PA Efforts to Build Family Leadership • Parents as Partners in Professional Development (P3D) • Guide By Your Side (GBYS) • Parent to Parent of Pennsylvania (P2P)

  8. PA Efforts to Build Family Leadership • State Interagency Coordinating Council (SICC) • Local Opportunities • Local Interagency Coordinating Councils (LICCs) • Support groups • Parent Partners

  9. Parents as Partners in Professional Development(P3D) By partnering with families • We learn from their stories & benefit from their expertise • Families grow in their leadership skills

  10. History of P3D • FPG Project: Natural Allies • Originated through Higher Education • Parents as Presenters • Parents as Partners in Professional Development

  11. P3D Family Roles • Presentations (presenter, co-presenter, panelist) • Training developers • Contributors to newsletters • Family video profiles • On-line learning • Review policy, procedures and standards • Advisory committees

  12. Opportunities created from P3D • Online chats • Course content - observation and reflection • Guest lecturers in Higher Education settings • Co-instruction • Family scenario • Shared organization and management • Evaluation and development • Advisory groups • Learning Standards

  13. Why this Partnership? • Promote sensitivity and awareness • Educate about family centered services •  Show audience that KIDS are KIDS •  Advocate for Quality programs and services

  14. Essential Support for P3D • Commitment • Support • Compensation • Tools http://fpg.unc.edu/presentations/parents-partners-professional-development-p3d-touching-hearts-changing-minds

  15. Impact on Students/Professionals • Change in practice • New perspective • Employment interest • Enhanced knowledge and skills • Positive feedback on evaluations • Excitement!!!

  16. Impact on Families • Increased confidence and collaboration • New perspective • Enhanced knowledge and skills • Positive feedback on evaluations • Excitement!!!

  17. Qualitative Impact The families’ stories and presence brings our work to life giving it depth and meaning I learned I had misconceptions about family life with a child with a disability It was a good experience to have students apply the concepts we’ve been learning in class, i.e., grieving, resources, etc., to a real-life situation

  18. Recruitment Strategies • Local Early Intervention programs • Family networking • Family training • Local Interagency Coordinating Councils

  19. The Journey – look how far we’ve come 1974 2013

  20. Cecilia’s Story

  21. From Team Meeting to State Conference

  22. Meeting the VIPs

  23. What will next year bring?

  24. Thank You!

  25. For More Information Contact Mary Mikus Consultant, Early Intervention Technical Assistance mmikus@pattan.net 800.441.3215 ext.7277 Sarah Holland Special Assistant on Family Engagement, Office of Child Development and Early Learning saholland@state.pa.us 717-787-8691 Camille Catlett Scientist, FPG Child Development Institute University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill camille.catlett@unc.edu Tel: (919) 966-6635

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