"ParentCamp is a transformational Family-School-Community Engagement Model designed to build a connected school ecosystem of caring and supportive adults surrounding our kids. ParentCamps are not the traditional stand and deliver sessions but facilitated dialogue where the entire room is the expert and everyone brings important and unique perspectives to the table.

The Design of the Traditional Family Engagement Model is Compliance Conditions. Compliance conditions keep people in “lanes” or “silos.” The Design of the Virtual ParentCamp Model is two-fold: Equality Conditions plus Purpose. Equality Conditions at a Virtual ParentCamp mean every person can be a learner and leader for kids, with the opportunity to go to any session at any time. Equality conditions mean every person can talk, listen, encourage, and connect with others as it feels right to them. Purpose at a Virtual ParentCamp means family, school and community decide not only the session topics but also the purposes around the topics–connect, strengthen and collaborate. Purpose is the secret sauce that leads to Family-School-Community Collective Efficacy.

Welcome to a new lived experience of “Family-School-Community Engagement” where each person can bring their abundant gifts to ParentCamps and together create a world where kids feel happy, healthy and strong.   

Welcome to a level playing field and a unique family engagement experience every single ParentCamp.

This is how you Transform school culture and education.

One hour at a time. 

One Virtual ParentCamp at a time.

We would like to invite you to join us in our nationwide Virtual ParentCamp “model classroom” every other Wednesday night. Come see what joyful family-school-community engagement looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Register at www.parentcamp.org/events. We are training school teams of 8 people in the Virtual ParentCamp Model. We think you’ll be pleased to know the teams are made up of family, school and community!

Find us here: www.parentcamp.org and www.linktr.ee/parentcamp

Listen to our stories of Impact on our YouTube Channel –​
Registration is open now for Wednesday, March 23rd’s Virtual ParentCamp.  Join us from 8 pm ET/5 pm PT to 9 pm ET/6 pm PT.  Registration will turn off at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT. We tried the Zoom registration process the last time and it just didn’t work for us, so we are going back to our previous registration system."
https://www.parentcamp.org/event/2022-03-23-vpc
Excerpt taken from https://www.parentcamp.org/about-virtual-parentcamp/
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Offered by the Youth Mental Health Project is their Spring Webinar Series: Your Burning Questions about Anxiety & Stress in Children. April 5th at 1pm Registration link below.  

Click here to register for this timely and informative upcoming webinar about Stress & Anxiety in Children. 
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While some events and meetings are still running virtually, we are back at school and in person for PTA meetings starting March 22, 2022. This is the first one in-person in 2 years. A lot has happened to the world since then. A lot of the world is experiencing difficulty coping with the stress of the global impact Covid has made to our every day lives. It is our hope that through connecting our community with helpful information to resources pertaining to wellness and mental health, we can continue to move forward armed with the support our families need. It is our intention to build stronger family-school partnerships through programs like PTA. If you would like to help diminish the barriers to opportunities for activities that can improve our community's mental health & wellness, please follow this link to complete a form and let us know how you would like to be involved. By building partnerships around advocacy and support services, we build a stronger family-school connection, and normalize discussions on mental health in school and at home.
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Check back here frequently to see what new information we have to share with our Meadow families. 

Interested in helping this initiative? Click here to connect with us!

With gratitude,
​Your Meadow PTA