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About Circle of Parents: Parent Leadership
Please check back soon for additional updates to this section.
Parent Leadership Proclamation 2011 [pdf]
Circle of Parents Leadership [pdf]
Parent Leadership Checklist [pdf]
Parents As Leaders [PAL] Committee
National Office
2100 South Marshall Boulevard
Suite 305
Chicago, IL 60623
773-257-0111, ext. 146
Brenda Baker
Colorado
Harry Baker
Colorado
Bruce Bynum
Kansas
Nancy Connolly
Massachusetts
Mary Kay Hanson
Minnesota
Derrick D. Hartwell
Michigan
Denise McCaffrey
Illinois
Dawn Patzer
Texas
Virginia Sumaya
Kansas
Parent Leadership Ambassador Training Guide [pdf]
Stories of Parents Leadership
It is with pleasure that we announce the availability of "Stories of Parent Leadership" on the website of the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention Programs (CBCAP).
As a FRIENDS National Resource Center Partner, Circle of Parents worked with the FRIENDS Parent Advisory Council (PAC) to complete this project, and engaged Story Corps, a national non-profit organization dedicated to recording stories of every day Americans. The stories are excerpts from interviews of six parent leaders who work in their communities and nationally to help family support and child abuse prevention practitioners and organizations develop effective and relevant programs and policy.
In their own voices, unique stories are presented about how parent leadership positively impacts personal growth, the well-being of an individual’s own family and one’s involvement as a partner with practitioners so that other families could benefit from effective programs and policy. Either singularly or combined, these vignettes can be used to increase public awareness or as tools to support training for staff, network members, partners, parents and other key stakeholders about the value of parent engagement and involvement. While the length of most vignettes is between 4-6 minutes, a 12-minute version is particularly recommended for intensive training.
The FRIENDS PAC invites you to share feedback on your use of the Stories of Parent Leadership. You may send your comments to Cynthia Savage, CEO, Circle of Parents.
We certainly hope the stories serve as a catalyst for spreading the message that parent leadership does make a difference!
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