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The Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) provides parent leaders and organization staff with leadership development and capacity-building tools for educational equity through our PLAN to LEAD curriculum.

PLAN Currently offers two training programs:

Leadership in Education Training Series
Leadership and Advocacy Skills for Education Equity is a two-part training for parents/guardians and others working to support parent leadership in school decision-making. Drawn from the PLAN to LEAD curriculum and the expertise of PLAN member organizations, PLAN offers this series in January and February of each year.

Training of Trainers
In 2005-2006, PLAN launched a pilot PLAN to LEAD Training of Trainers Program. The goals of the program are to increase the capacity of Bay Area parent-based organizations to use leadership training as a tool for parent-led action for education equity and to make the PLAN to LEAD curriculum widely available and accessible to parent-based organizations.

Eleven Bay Area organizations participated in the first year of the program, which runs September through May. Participants include: Chinese for Affirmative Action/Center for Asian American Advocacy, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, Fighting Back Partnership, Hawthorne Family Resource Center, Oakland Parents Together, Our Family Coalition, Parent Services Project, Parent Voices – Southern Alameda County, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and Youth Together/Skyline Family Resource Center.

Participants receive training and support to develop and implement a customized PLAN to LEAD training to energize and focus their parent leadership and action on education issues. In addition, participating organizations develop training skills and capacity of key staff and leaders through 20 hours of hands-on instruction and practice and 9 hours of one-on-one coaching.

Upcoming TRAININGs

Leadership in Education Workshop Series 2008: Two-part workshop series to support parent action and leadership for educational equity on Saturdays, January 26th and February 2nd, 2008, in Oakland, CA. Click here to learn more.

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