What
are the goals of the Leadership Institute?
The Institute is designed to build
a learning community that will:
• gain knowledge about effective
leadership, organizational culture, and the unique role that parent representatives
are asked to play on ICCs;
• develop strategies for assuring
a stronger and more diverse parent voice that will have an effective impact
on policy development related to services for young children and families;
• acquire leadership skills that
may support parent leaders as they engage in the work of the ICC;
• reflect on individual, group,
and organizational attitudes and behaviors which are particularly conducive
to effective leadership or serve as barriers;
• address needs and begin planning
for carrying out a statewide parent leadership training event.
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How
large is the Institute?
Because the Institute will be highly
interactive and intensive, we are committed to limiting the group to no
more than six teams of up to six participants per team, plus faculty.
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Why teams?
The Institute is designed to help
build individual leadership skills as well as those needed in the group
context in which ICC business is typically conducted. The Institute
aims to meet the learning needs of individuals as well as supporting the
work that groups of leaders will do when they leave the Institute and return
home.
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Why
professionals?
The project is designed to meet
the challenges of serving as a parent in a complex advisory organization
such as an ICC. Part of building an effective team of parent leaders
is acknowledging the importance of parent-professional collaboration in
supporting the mission of the ICC: To assure coordinated, quality services
for young children at risk from birth to three.
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What costs
are covered?
The Institute will pay for half
of a state team’s participants’ expenses to attend the Institute, with
the expectation that each state will support the remainder. Expenses
include:
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Travel expenses:
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Round trip air and ground transportation
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Round trip ground transportation from
home to airport;
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Hotel and Meals for the duration of
the Institute;
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Institute materials
There is no registration fee for Institute
participants.
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May
2005 Institute
We have begun planning
for the 2005 Institute,
tentatively scheduled for May 2005 in San Francisco, CA. If you
are interested in sending a team, we encourage you to contact us as soon as
possible. Richard Robison and
Barbara Popper, the project co-directors,
are available to provide detailed information about how we prepare team members
in advance for the 3.5-day experience, and about cost-sharing. (Travel, hotel
accommodations, and meals are split 50-50 between the project and the states.)
As always we will fill the Institute openings on a first-come, first-selected
basis.
Each state will send a team of no more than six
participants (five parents and one professional) and, six to eight months after
the Institute, will carry out a team plan for replicating leadership activities
for parents.
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