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Families
Together, Inc., is a statewide non-profit organization that has an
established statewide network with eight designated regions making
individual parent assistance available as well as providing support
through parent-to-parent programs. This agency provides numerous mini-conferences
and workshops throughout Kansas on a yearly basis focusing on special
education law, IEP development, inclusion, transition, Section 504,
and early childhood. www.familiestogetherinc.org |
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An affiliate
of the NEA with a presence in every school district throughout Kansas,
it has as its mission "to empower its members to promote quality
public schools and strengthen the teaching profession." The KNEA
believes that the best way to close the achievement gap is to offer
more intensive training on how to work more effectively with and to
involve families in the learning process. www.knea.org |
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The Kansas Parents
As Teachers Association supports, through professional development,
the goals of Parents As Teachers (PAT), an early literacy, school-readiness
parent education program providing services for pre-natal parents
and parents with children up to age three in 228 school districts
across Kansas. www.kpata.org |
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The Kansas
Parent Teacher Association, chartered under the National PTA, is
a volunteer organization seeking to unite home, school, and community
in promoting the education, health, and safety of children and families.
A primary objective of the KPTA is to bring the home and school
into closer relation so the parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently
in the education of children and youth. |
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The mission of
the KHSA is to strengthen early learning programs through advocacy,
education and leadership and to ensure that children are school-ready
in all areas of their lives -- academic, physical, social and emotional
-- and that families are self-sufficient. the KHSA supports all 28
Kansas Head Start programs through professional education, advocacy
and special projects. http://www.ksheadstart.org/khsa.html |