Special Education Parent Resource Center

Special Education Parent Liaisons

The Special Education Parent Liaison project is a joint project of the Arlington Public School’s Parent Resource Center (PRC) and the Arlington Special Education PTA (SEPTA). The goal for the project is for each elementary, middle, and high school in Arlington to have at least two parent volunteers who will serve as Special Education Parent Liaisons to support and encourage the flow of information between each of the schools, the PRC, and SEPTA.

Liaisons share PRC and SEPTA information with their schools, and serve in an advisory capacity, providing ideas for trainings and materials, and input from individual school communities. The Parent Liaisons group meets once or twice each year. Finally, Liaisons serve as points of contact for families interested in connecting with another parent of a child with special needs in individual schools.

Seeking Special Education Parent Liaisons

We still especially need volunteers for the following schools: Abingdon, Arlington Science Focus, Arlington Traditional School, Ashlawn, Campbell, Carlin Springs, Claremont, Patrick Henry, Hoffman-Boston, Key, Oakridge, Reed, Gunston and Swanson.

Volunteer online to serve as a Special Education Parent Liaison

If you would like to learn more or volunteer to be a Parent Liaison at your school, join us for one of our upcoming fall Parent Liaison meetings. Sign up here!

To learn more, kindly contact Vickie Barr at the Parent Resource Center at vickie.barr@apsva.us or 703.228.2136.

Find your liaison.

Special Education Parent Liaisons Resources

Special Education Parent Liaisons - Roles and Responsbilities

Materials from October, 2012 Special Education Parent Liaisons Meeting

Last Modified on April 3, 2013