Wisconsin Personnel Development System (WPDS)--E-Newsletter 05/27/10

Parent Leadership Hub Weekly E-Newsletter for May 27, 2010

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

PALS, PIP and YiPPE Now Taking Registrations
Parents as Leaders, Parents in Partnership and Youth in Partnership with Parents for Empowerment programs are now taking registrations for next school year's programs. Parents (and youth for YiPPE) must commit to attend all sessions, which begin in fall and end in spring. Descriptions of the programs can be found at http://www.dpi.wi.gov/sped/par_partn.html. For further information on each program, please contact the individuals listed below.

Parents in Partnership for parents of children ages 6-14	Karl Pierick Mary Pierick 608-833-0974 sudabba@aol.com	October 10 & 11, 2010 November 13, 2010 January 22, 2011 March 5, 2011 April 9, 2011	Crowne Plaza Hotel, Madison
YiPPE for parents of youth ages15-20 (Parallel training for Youth leadership)	Brenda Yager 800-862-3725, ext. 260 yagerb@cesa5.k12.wi.us	September 24-25, 2010 November 19-20, 2010 January 28-29, 2011 March 11-12, 2011 April 15-16, 2011	Wintergreen Resort and Conference Center, Wisconsin Dells
YiPPE for parents of youth ages15-20 (Parallel training for Youth leadership)	Becky Brown 920-606-7792 rbrown@cesa7.k12.wi.us Jennifer Grenke 920-855-2114 jgrenke@cesa8.k12.wi.us	September 24-25, 2010 November 12-13, 2010 January 14 & 15, 2011 March 4 & 5, 2011 April 8 & 9, 2011 (some restrictions apply)	Tundra Lodge, Green Bay
Parents as Leaders for parents of children ages 0-6	Lynn Havemann 608-263-5947 Elizabeth Martinkus 608-265-9423 1-800-532-3321	November 12-13, 2010 January 21-22, 2011 March 11-12, 2011 May 6-7, 2011	Facilities on Green Lake

ADA Celebration
July 25, 2010 in Madison
Access to Independence announces a day-long series of events marking the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Follow this link for more information on the day’s events and how to register to join the celebration: http://www.accesstoind.org/ada-celebration.html

Trainings on the Web

Think College Webinar – Through the Same Door: Inclusion Includes College
This free webinar June 21 at 2 p.m. Central Time examines inclusive college experiences for students with intellectual disabilities. In order to register for this webinar please go to: https://admin.na6.acrobat.com/_a839220836/think
collegereg/event/event_info.html
To download the flyer, go to http://www.thinkcollege.net/images/stories/mariaD_webinarflyer_F.pdf
There is no charge for this webinar, but due to limited capacity, pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive an email with the link to participate in the webinar. For questions about registration please contact Maria Dragoumanos at maria.dragoumanos@umb.edu. For questions about the webinar please contact Cate Weir at cathryn.weir@umb.edu

Family Involvement Resources

The National Network of Partnership Schools
The National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS), established by John Hopkins University invites schools, districts, states, and organizations to join together and use research-based approaches to organize and sustain excellent programs of family and community involvement that will increase student success in school. Go to http://www.csos.jhu.sedu/p2000/ for more information.
National Center for Medical Home Implementation
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation is a resource for health professionals, families, and anyone interested in creating a medical home for all children and youth. For more information, go to http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org
Money Moments for Parents
Money Moments, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board’s new website for parents, features videos demonstrating how parents can help their children develop successful financial habits. Money Moments is a companion site to http://www.ecb.org/finance/index.html, a professional development website for teachers that is based on the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Personal Financial Library. Go to http://www.ecb.org/finance/parents/ for more information.

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.