EIPLP

The Parent Leadership Project was originated by parents and is staffed by parents whose children have received Early Intervention Services in Massachusetts.

Created through the generous support of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the lead agency for the statewide Early Intervention system, the Project works in collaboration with Early Intervention Programs, the Massachusetts Interagency Coordinating Council, and families who receive Early Intervention services for four main purposes:

To develop an informed parent constituency;

To promote leadership and lifelong advocacy skills for parents and family members;

To facilitate family participation to ensure that Early Intervention Services are family-centered and,

To support EI programs to identify, train and mentor families to take on roles across the EI and Early Childhood system.

The Parent Leadership Project,a project of the Office of Family Initiatives at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, was created to support parents whose children receive early intervention services. The Project’s main goal is to promote lifetime advocacy, leadership skills and the development of an informed parent constituency, which will encourage early intervention services to be increasingly family centered. The Project is a parent driven endeavor, which continually seeks family involvement and input regarding the needs of families enrolled in Early Intervention and is implemented by parents whose own children have received EI services.