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Community Involvement Links
Maine
Maine Association for Charter Schools
Learn here about public charter schools and how important it is for parents, educators, and policy makers to be informed, lest Maine continue to miss out on this powerful tool for educational reform. Browse through this site for more information or for an update on what's new nationally, and what's new with Maine's efforts to enact enabling public charter school legislation. www.mainecharterschools.org/
Maine Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Maine ASCD is an organization for professionals involved in the educational systems of Maine who are committed to equity and quality for all learners. As with ASCD, our association initially focused on curriculum and supervision issues. Over the years, our focus has changed. Like ASCD, Maine ASCD now addresses all aspects of effective teaching and learning—such as professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building.
www.maineascd.org/
Maine Parent Federation
The Maine Parent Federation, Inc. is a statewide organization that provides information, advocacy, education, and training to benefit all children. We promote individual aspirations and community inclusion for people with disabilities.
www.mpf.org/
Maine Parent-Teacher Association
The Maine PTA is for anyone who is concerned with the education, health, and welfare of Maine's children and youth.
www.mainepta.org
Maine Parents.Net - Your Teen and Alcohol...Do You Really Know?
Resources for Maine parents and community partners to help reduce underage alcohol use and keep teens safe. Come to their website to learn the "Maine Truth" about teens and alcohol.
maineparents.net/
Maine Youth Action Network
The Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) is a partnership of youth and adult staff working to help youth and their advisors train, support, connect, and advocate to effect positive change through school and community-based peer programs. Youth groups of all types can be part of MYAN, including social action, prevention, education, peer listening, mediation, mentoring, health promotion, civil rights and others. If your group is working to make a positive difference, join the network to gain ideas, support and information from other young people and advisors from across the state.
www.myan.org/
National
Association for Supervision and Curriculum
ASCD is a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.
www.ascd.org
Connect for Kids
The Connect for Kids project is to help adults make their communities better places for families and children. Their web site offers a place on the internet for parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others, who want to become more active citizens in kid's lives.
www.connectforkids.org
Family-Friendly Schools
The Family Friendly Schools web site shares exciting advancements by schools and organizations in family involvement. The Family Friendly Schools Model assists educators with understanding the important relationships between schools, families, students and their peers and the impact these relationships have on the academic achievement of all students.
www.familyfriendlyschools.org
Keep Schools Safe
Ideas for students, parents and communities on preventing violence and substance abuse.
www.keepschoolssafe.org
Kids Consortium
KIDS works with teachers, administrators and students to involve students in addressing real challenges faced by their communities. Together they identify, research, and work to address local community needs. With guidance from KIDS, teachers match those projects to school curricula, providing a powerful "hands on" learning experience that improves the community and brings academics to life.
www.kidsconsortium.org
National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth
The National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NCFY) can link you to information that will help you support young people and families. On this site you will find information about youth and family issues for young people and students, parents and community members and youth service professionals and policy-makers.
www.ncfy.com
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
NCPIE is a coalition of major education, community, public service, and advocacy organizations working to create meaningful family-school partnerships in every school in America. When schools and families work together to support learning, everyone benefits: Students do better in school and in life; Parents become empowered; Teacher morale improves; Schools get better; Communities grow stronger. Learn more about the benefits of family-school partnerships.
www.ncpie.org
National Youth Advocate Program, Inc.
The goal of NYAP is to strengthen families by promoting family stability. They advocate directly and individually for children, youth, and famlies through their services and programs and advocate on behalf of children and youth who are at risk of being forgotten or abandoned by society.
www.nyap.org/us/home
Parent-Teacher Association
Every day offers a fresh opportunity to get involved with your child. And National PTA can help. Offering access to thousands of parents and teachers just like you, National PTA provides the resources you need to stay involved in the life of your child every day.
www.pta.org
Parent-Teacher Organization
PTO Today, Inc. has established itself as a valuable resource for parent group leaders and as a reliable connection between those leaders and parent group marketers. PTO integrates three distinct products PTOtoday Magazine — our flagship publication with a print circulation of more than 80,000 K-8 parent group leaders nation-wide, PTOtoday.com — our online meeting place offers additional resources for our thriving community of parent leaders and enables them to share ideas and connect with their peers, PTO Shows — A series of conferences with educational sessions, informative speakers, vendor exhibits, and an opportunity to learn and share from each other.
www.ptotoday.com
Parents for Public Schools
Parents for Public Schools is a national organization of community-based chapters working to strengthen public schools through broad-based enrollment. While PPS chapters undertake a variety of activities in their communities, all PPS chapter leaders and members are united by shared values. We are inspired by those values and work together to realize them in our PPS activities. By mobilizing parents who reflect the full diversity of our towns and cities, PPS works to build both strong public schools and healthier, move vital communities.
www.parents4publicschools.com/
Parents Matter
Maine pre-teens and teens are at risk for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The research and resources on this website provide practical talking points, useful facts, and valuable resources to help Maine parents talk with their children about relationships, love, sex and abstinence. When it comes to talking about sex with your child, parents matter. parentsmatter.org/
Youth Activism Project
This site aims to prove that MINORS can play a MAJOR ROLE. Our national clearinghouse also provides help and information to parents, mentors, teachers, principals, policy-makers and other adult allies who want to collaborate with youth to achieve positive community change: www.youthactivism.com/
Youth, Parents, and Communities: The Importance of Family Involvement in Education
Increased involvement of parents and families often is cited as one of the most important ways to improve public schools. A variety of studies confirms that parent involvement makes an enormous impact on students' attitude, attendance, and academic achievement. As parents and families become more involved in the education of their children, everybody wins. Find out how to get more involved: www.nche.org/ypc_parents_benefits.htm
