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Estamos capacitando a los padres para que salgan de sus zonas de confort, se familiaricen con el l\u00edder que llevan dentro y se organicen con otros padres para crear un cambio duradero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There I was standing in front of eight parents who were expecting me to teach them something when I felt like I had nothing. In a shaky but determined voice, I welcomed the group. I gathered my nerves and spoke the one thing that set the stage for the entire training: \u201cWe here are all equal! I am here to facilitate but that does not make me more of a leader than you. We are all leaders!\u201d It was my first\u00a0Community Organizing and Family Issues\u00a0(COFI) workshop, and it was my job to empower these parents to dream big, think big, and set personal, family, and community goals. Though I was nervous, I needed to help them find the leader in themselves because I knew that most of them, like me, questioned whether or not they had the power to change their communities.<\/p>\n

In October 2018 I was a parent leader with\u00a0The Great Start Parent Coalition, a group dedicated to informing and shaping early childhood initiatives, and helping families raise children who are supported and prioritized. Through this work, I learned about a community organizing training opportunity that was fully parent led and I was excited to participate. I didn\u2019t know it then, but that was my introduction to COFI. The training took place with several other family-centered organizations. For four days, I was trained on how to empower parents, helping them to bring out the leaders within themselves by setting personal and family goals then working to accomplish them. I was trained on how to help parents realize they were already leaders in their homes and that this experience was going to help them become stronger leaders.<\/p>\n

The team-building portion of the COFI work involves doing a project in the community. Our Kent County, Michigan cohort, the Game Changers, put together a community event to inform parents about\u00a0Michigan\u2019s Read by Grade Three Law. This law states that third graders may repeat third grade if they are more than one grade level behind, beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. We knew that this law would come as a big shock for families in the community and we wanted to make sure parents knew their rights, how to fight for them, and what it meant if their child had an individualized education plan (IEP) and how that was aligned with the provisions of the law. We centered our event around the Success Basics (Love, Talk, Count, Play, and Read), which are practical ways parents to help their children get a good start and thrive in school. We provided free food sensory activities, story times, and resources from organizations that support families. Every child left with a big smile, a bag with school supplies, a free book or two, and a stuffed animal they adopted to read their stories to. We expected to serve about 100 people but we had more than 200 people from the community attend our event. I was so very proud of our cohort of the parents who completely organized, planned, and executed those plans to put on such a great event for the community.<\/p>\n

Mi trabajo con COFI en mi comunidad me ense\u00f1\u00f3 c\u00f3mo encontrar mi voz y c\u00f3mo cultivar relaciones. Como miembro del comit\u00e9 directivo de la Red de Padres L\u00edderes, sab\u00eda que COFI ser\u00eda una gran adici\u00f3n a la Agenda de Acci\u00f3n y Aprendizaje de la Red. COFI me ense\u00f1\u00f3 a facilitar incluso a trav\u00e9s de mis errores ya equilibrar roles y responsabilidades con un co-facilitador. Aprend\u00ed que el liderazgo no se trata de aprovechar lo que tienes para tu beneficio, sino para el beneficio de los dem\u00e1s. Sab\u00eda que la capacitaci\u00f3n de COFI ayudar\u00eda a los miembros de PLN a empoderar a otros padres en sus propias comunidades.<\/p>\n

En noviembre de 2019, un grupo de 30 padres l\u00edderes y personal de cada comunidad en PLN viaj\u00f3 a Chicago para capacitarse en la Fase 1 del modelo COFI, que se enfoca en crear equipos de padres de apoyo, establecer metas y establecer planes. Hemos llevado lo que aprendimos a nuestras comunidades y estamos en proceso de implementar la capacitaci\u00f3n para padres en nuestras respectivas \u00e1reas. Aunque todos estamos en diferentes etapas en la Fase 1 de COFI, todos estamos aprendiendo unos de otros y alent\u00e1ndonos unos a otros. Estamos capacitando a los padres para que salgan de sus zonas de confort, se familiaricen con el l\u00edder que llevan dentro y se organicen con otros padres para crear un cambio duradero.<\/p>\n

Extra\u00eddo de Centro de Estudios de Pol\u00edtica Social<\/a><\/em> con permiso del autor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Educador de padres, Bright Beginnings (Condado de Kent, MI)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonials"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNicole Burman | COFI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interested in learning more about The COFI Way? 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