How Parent Mentors Work with Schools


A data-driven model for family/school/ community collaboration, the Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership encourages families of students with disabilities and/ or other academic risks to be critical players in the school improvement process.  The Georgia Department of Education launched this determined and energetic partnership to engage families of students with disabilities in the education process.  Today, the state/local partnerships boasts nearly 90 trained parent leaders partnering with local school systems in family engagement initiatives.

 
  Together with educators, the Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership (GaPMP) reaches more than 75 percent of the state’s students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), and thousands of other students considered at risk because of factors such as English as a Second Language, poverty and/or family social issues.
The Parent Mentor Partnership is a spring-board for change with the combined goals of increasing the graduation rate for students with disabilities and engaging families in the education of their own children.
   
The Parent Mentor Partnership promotes training parents of students with disabilities or at risk.  Mentors seek or create opportunities to engage these families as a way of meeting critical performance goals and indicators.  The data that the Partnership collects demonstrates the contribution that family engagement makes to academic achievement. 
   
Read more about the GaPMP in the newly revised Toolkit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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