Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University

Hello Everyone:

Earlier this week I attended a conference and met Dr. Joyce Epstein, Director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships. The url is http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/center.htm. She authored the six levels of family and community involvement that we've used in our work. The Center has a National Network of Partnership Schools Program where local schools, districts, organizations and state departments can join and get support for family and community involvement. There is a fee and other administrative requirements. It's not clear to me how joining this network would help move us along at this point. However, I told her a bit about the work we were embarking on and she suggested an upcoming conference in October 27-28 in Baltimore Maryland. Click http://www.csos.jhu.edu/P2000/pdf/fall-2009_ldc-brochure_final-web.pdf for the brochure. What do you think?

Rosemary