Southeast Children's Fund

Parents and Teachers Empowerment Network

It takes a village to raise a child - African proverb

The Parents and Teachers Empowerment Network (P-TEN) emphasizes increasing parents’ family leadership skills, involvement in their children’s education, and mutual support. The Network provides opportunities for parents to obtain parenting and other leadership skill training, connect with other parents to provide mutual support, and cooperative promotion of their children’s success. It also offers teachers the opportunity to share with parents helpful information on the children’s progress and on ways to support their learning, and serves as a ready resource for SCF to obtain classroom volunteers, assistance with field trips and fundraising. The P-TEN was created for parents of children attending the Southeast Children’s Fund Child Development Center and its sister center, Sunshine Early Learning Center, and the two centers’ child care provider staffs. The goals of the P-TEN are to:

• Create ways for parents to support each other in parenting, learning, achieving and living • Help parents to effectively provide for their families
• Give them the tools and opportunities to advocate for their children’s education and positive development
• Increase interactions between parents and their children
• Provide teachers a venue in which they can share with parents information on their children’s progress and encourage parent involvement in the schools’ activities
• Create an environment of leadership, advocacy and mutual support among group members

The P-TEN holds formal meetings six times a year, but the executive and ad hoc committees and support groups, formed to address specific activities and interests, meet more frequently -- depending on need and by consensus agreement.

Join

Joining the Parents and Teachers Empowerment Network (P-TEN) is EASY, and can be a great benefit to you and your children. You can receive training to become effective leaders in your family and in your community -- able to advocate for your children, communicate your needs to school officials and educators, learn helpful information, find solutions to situations of interest to you, get help in finding a job, and work closely with your children’s teachers and/or caregivers to support your children’s education.

The Network is open to all parents and teachers at Southeast Children’s Fund Child Development Center and Sunshine Early Learning Center.

There is a membership fee of $1.00 a year. You will need to pay this fee when you enroll, and then every year thereafter.

CONTACT Ms. Angela Rollins at 202-561-8706 for information on joining. Or sign up at your child’s school or classroom. You will need to provide the following information:

Your name
Contact information
Name of children, their ages and places of enrollment
Special talents or interests

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Remember. “It takes a Village to raise a child.” JOIN P-TEN now.