February 1998 New Center Strengthens Oregon Families
Parents and families throughout Oregon have a new source for information, support, and assistance in their efforts to raise healthy, safe, and secure children to adulthood: the Oregon Parent Information and Resource Center.
Initially, services will be delivered to parents in Oregon’s two federally designated Enterprise Communities—northeast Portland where services will be coordinated by the Albina Head Start Program, and in rural Josephine County where services will be coordinated by the Sunny Wolf Community Response Team.
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, over the next four years, will work with local and statewide agencies to disseminate information and build training capacity for delivery of services across the state to parents with children from infancy through high school.
The Oregon Parent Center will deliver services to parents in 11 substate regions, which will allow the center to meet the unique needs of parents in urban and rural areas, from different income levels, and from various cultural and ethnic groups. It relies on input and guidance from parents who will be served by the center. It also relies on existing local agencies to incorporate and expand parent training in child care, development, and education within their existing missions and service delivery systems.
The Oregon Parent Information and Resource Center is among about three dozen statewide centers funded in recent years by the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to meet Goal 8 of the national education goals: By the year 2000, every school will provide partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children.
NWREL’s role in the operation of the Center is to support state and local agencies in their delivery of services by:
- Maintaining and loaning a collection of parent information and training materials gathered from sources across the nation
- Maintaining a center Web site on the Internet for staff and volunteers of service agencies, as well as parents, to access information and materials
- Assisting agencies in geographic areas across Oregon to plan and organize for delivery of center services
- Providing training for staff of state and local agencies to deliver assistance to parents, such as the Parents as Teachers (PAT) and Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
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