Partners for SuccessStatewide Outreach Center for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

Parents and Educators Working Together to Support Families

Partnerships Parent Educator Systems

Parent and Education Coordinators

Working together

Manage Center Staffing Schedule Data Collection, Data Management

and Data Reporting Distribution of Newsletter and other

materials Correspondence Immediate response to a parent

requests

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

Topics

Resource Information System Lending Library Resource Binder Computer Network with Other

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

Rights

Systems Friend or Foe?

Provide Support Location Funding Training In-Kind Support

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 . . .

Think Out of the Box

Be open to bringing more programs to your center

Parent to Parent Network Matches parents who have been

there with parents who request help

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

Supporting Parent Training One-to-one matches Friendships Support

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

Making All The Pieces Fit For Families

Questions?????Cheri DowlingMaryann SwannPartners for SuccessPO Box 894Columbia, MD 21044(410) 480-4597 (v/tty)(410) 480-4598 (fax)Partners@msd.edu

There is nothing in a caterpillar

that tells you it’s going to

be a butterflyBuckminster Fuller