Partners for Success Statewide 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 Dowling Maryann Swann Partners for Success PO Box 894 Columbia, MD (410) (v/tty) (410) (fax)

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly Buckminster Fuller