This summer, a survey was conducted to evaluate services provided  by Parent to Parent. The survey was a way of ensuring the quality of our support for parents. We thank all who were willing to participate and for your honest, thoughtful responses. Here is our partial 'report card' on how we did. Approximately 140 families responded all of whom had called Parent to Parent within the past year. They heard about us largely through an agency referral and the top 2 reasons for calling was for information and funding. A large majority of families got 'what they needed' from the phone call with Parent to Parent staff.

We're happy to report that, overall families were satisfied with our response, and found us accessible, empathetic, supportive, and knowledgeable. We had high marks for being 'valuable to your family' and happily, our highest grade was that you'd recommend Parent to Parent to others. (Please do!)
Results from the questions involving respite and personal care services will be published in our next newsletter.  We also conducted an evaluation of our Supporting Parent program, and will publish these results as well.
We will endeavor to apply these responses to continuous improvement.   ©

The Bennington Supporting Parent Training
On September 25, staff traveled to Bennington for a very successful Supporting Parent training. We feel honored to have had six empathetic parents, who are very knowledgeable and strong advocates for their children with special needs complete the training. Four of the parents were attending for the first time and two were "veteran" Supporting Parents.

As they shared their family stories and participated in the training activities, we could clearly see how much support other families will be receiving from these peer mentors. The participants were engaging and supportive throughout the day and provided each other with valuable information and resources.

We are excited to introduce our new Supporting Parents, Judy McGraw, Carol Simon, Carlene Bacon, Lori Straley, and Linda DeSanty, and welcome them to our wonderful family of Supporting Parents. Again, we thank you for sharing the day with us, for your commitment of time, and for your gift of experience that will surely touch the heart of your parent match.
[so sorry their picture turned out too blurry!! :-( ]

If you would like to support and share information with other parents who have an experience similar to yours, call 1-800-800-4005 to enroll in a Supporting Parent Training near you. Learn about the one-to-one match process and build on skills that you already have to support others.   ©

After our next training in St. Albans on October 19, 2002, we have scheduled the following trainings for 2003:
January 25: for Chittenden County
March 19: for Washington County/Waterbury
April 29: Windsor County/White River

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