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Center for Family Involvement and Support

The Center for Family Involvement and Support is a collaboration between the Partnership for People with Disabilities and the Virginia Department of Education to implement a collection of activities to promote education and advocacy for parents and families of children with disabilities, birth through 22 years of age. Center for Family Involvement and Support activities address a need for parents and families to have adequate information, training, materials and supports to understand, participate in and guide decision making about programs and services that affect them and their children with disabilities.

Major Activities:

• PARENT INVOLVEMENT SURVEY
  Implement and provide state and division reporting on results of a Part B and 619 Parent Involvement Survey responsive to Virginia’s Special Education State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Plan, Part B Indicator #8: the percentage of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children with disabilities.



• PARENT INVOLVEMENT ACTIVITIES
  Review needs identified on the Parent Involvement Survey with the Parent Involvement Priority Project and work with them and providers of parent involvement supports to identify and implement activities to help VA schools in improving parent involvement and student outcomes.



• TRANSITION
  Review results of the Parent Involvement Survey related to transition and work with the Transition Priority Project and the Parent Involvement Priority Project to develop a work plan for improved parent and student involvement in transition.



• PARENT RESOURCE CENTERS
  VCU will bring together, provide and facilitate training for and networking among VA’s Parent Resource Center personnel.



• LOCAL SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEES
  VCU will maintain a local SEAC website and provide information, resources, training and technical assistance for local SEACs.



• COLLABORATIVE STANDARDS DRIVEN IEPS
  Revise and print the Collaborative IEP Handbook, conduct Collaborative Standards-Driven IEP training for selected IEP teams and evaluate the effectiveness and outcomes of this training model for implication for use with other schools in VA.