Wisconsin Personnel Development System (WPDS)
E-Newsletter
Parent Leadership Hub Weekly E-Newsletter for December 17, 2009
This week's update is provided by WSPEI and WI FACETS to share statewide information regarding parent leadership and family involvement. Please visit the Parent Leadership Hub web page of the SPDG website at http://www.wispdg.org/pl.html for the current and archived weekly updates and to find information on these topics:
- WSPEI website: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/parent.html
- WIFACETS website: http://www.wifacets.org
- Resources- Product Order Form, and Educational Materials for Parents
- Calendar of Events
- Multi-Media Resources- Workshops Online, Video Series, and Webcasts
The Parent Leadership Hub supports parents/family members, educators and other community partners to build capacity regarding meaningful family involvement. The Hub serves three primary purposes:
(1) To support parents of children with disabilities between birth and 26 years of age to participate as partners in the professional development activities of each of the other Statewide Initiatives as they design, deliver and support professional development experiences; and
(2) To facilitate opportunities for parents/family members to build leadership skills; and
(3) To provide Content Focused technical assistance concerning family involvement.
Please, direct any questions to the PL Hub Co-Facilitators:
Mary Skadahl, WSPEI Statewide Project Director at 715-829-8932 or marys@cesa12.k12.wi.us
Dawn Wians, WI FACETS SPDG Coordinator at 608-827-5234 or dwians@wifacets.org
Deadline for submitting contributions to each week's issue is Tuesday noon. For time sensitive training advertisements, the information should be sent a minimum of two weeks prior to the event date; ideally a month ahead of time. Material appropriate for the weekly newsletter include web links to sources of family involvement/parent leadership resources and advertisements for statewide trainings for parents, youth or parent/educator audiences (we don’t post research articles, reports or news opinion articles). Your submittal may not be in the final copy if it was in a previous weekly email, the event date has passed or the web link doesn’t work. Please, send submittals to phyllis@banbury.com
NOTE: Note: If you would like to receive this weekly update or if you would like to have your name removed from the distribution list, please contact Mary Skadahl or Dawn Wians.
'Just in Time Information' Now Available
A new online repository of information is available for parents, youth and professionals who are searching for articles previously posted to the PL Hub Weekly E-Newsletters since October 2008. This repository of information will help the reader locate valuable information by topic, 'just in time'. Currently, there are web pages for 'Transition to Adult Life' and 'Family Involvement'. Future web pages will include 'Early Childhood' and 'School-Age Years'.
For our reader's convenience, all archived issues of the E-Newsletter will eventually be re-posted on the 'Just in Time Information' page of the PL Hub website. We hope this format will help our readers quickly access the resources they need, when they need them, and that it will be visited frequently. Additions are always welcome! To submit suggested resources and training products, simply follow the instructions and criteria provided in the introduction to each of the PL Hub Weekly Updates.
To visit the new 'Just in Time Information' web page go to: http://www.wispdg.org/pl/resources.html
Parent/Personnel Development Opportunities
- January 21 Community on Transition Meeting Cancelled
The Jan. 21 Community on Transition meeting has been cancelled. The next meeting of the Community will be in June, with a focus on youth transition.
Young adults with disabilities will be featured who have participated in a variety of leadership and youth development experiences available in Wisconsin.
Phone Workshops
- IEP Training Part 2 Telephone Workshop
On Dec. 18, 12 noon-1pm, parents and educators can learn rules and regulations related to creating the Individualized Education Program (IEP) to ensure quality education. Included are: determining present levels of academic and functional performance, writing annual goals, transition considerations, behavioral plans, accommodations in assessments and parent participation. The "IEP Process and Product" workshop is divided into 2 parts. To register call Sandra at 1-877-374-0511 or email smcfarland@wifacets.org .
Family Involvement Resources
- WorkSupport.com E-Newsletter
Information, resources and research about work and disability issues. Go to http://www.worksupport.com/news/ws_120309.html to view the newsletter. - Creating Welcoming Schools: A Practical Guide to Home-School Partnerships with Diverse Families (Paperback)
JoBeth Allen (Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia) presents Creating Welcoming Schools: A Practical Guide to Home-School Partnerships with Diverse Families, a useful resource that explains how schools and diverse families across America have entered into constructive partnerships to improve student learning. Intended for teachers, parents, and school administrators, Creating Welcoming Schools covers such options as writing cultural memoirs, inviting dialogue at the conference table, engaging families in classroom projects, collaborating for more democratic schools and a more democratic society, and much more. Available for purchase on www.amazon.com. - What is Career Cruising?
Career Cruising offers a suite of online career guidance and planning tools designed for people of all ages. Using our tools, you can find the right career, explore education and training options, build your own portfolio, manage your school’s course selection process, or set up a career development network in your community. Learn more about all of these possibilities on our Products page. For more information, go to http://www.careercruising.com/. - Systems of Care – Family Drive
The federally funded Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families is supported by a number of technical assistance, evaluation, research and training centers. Leaders from these projects, representatives from the funded communities, and staff from the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, comprise the Council for Collaboration and Coordination which is known generally as the CCC1. At its Spring meeting in 2004, the CCC recognized the need for a clear definition of the term “family-driven” for use by systems of care and asked the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health to take the lead in developing one. For more information, go to http://systemsofcare.samhsa.gov/headermenus/familydriven.aspx - Project Summer Tips and Resources
Project Summer, a three-year transition research project at Waisman Center focused on improving summer employment for youth with disabilities, has a new tip sheet with ideas on how transition staff can strengthen relationships and partnerships with youth, families, other school staff, and the broader community. The tips are located on the Project Summer website at: http://projectsummer.info/Project_Summer/Tips.html
The Project Summer resource page link at
http://projectsummer.info/Project_Summer/Resources.html
also has useful resources, including:
-- A one-hour video presentation of Project Summer findings and recommendations;
-- Two presentations by Erin Riehle on Project Search
-- Person-centered planning tool
-- Community resource map examples
-- Community Conversation report summaries
-- Useful transition links, and more
DISCLAIMER
Inclusion of information in this e-mail does not constitute an endorsement by the Wisconsin Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative, Wisconsin FACETS, the Department of Public Instruction, the U.S. Department of Education, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
