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CEFAM helps Maine students and families grow and thrive. We work directly with communities at the ground-level and with the Maine Department of Education and key partner organizations to implement educational excellence, culturally responsive family engagement, and equity. We’re excited to connect and get to know you more!
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We collaborate with teachers, staff, and administrators to build skills and competencies for family engagement efforts, including those that promote equity and support communities.
Areas we address include engaging with students and families, improving outreach skills to engage better with more school communities, and improving communication with families.
We partner with teachers, staff, and administrators to build skills and competencies for family engagement efforts, including those that promote equity and support communities.
Areas we address include engaging with students and families, improving outreach skills to engage better with more school communities, and improving communication with families.
Together with the Maine Department of Education and partner organizations, we develop statewide, equity-driven, family engagement policies and frameworks.
We promote statewide family engagement by increasing staff knowledge of best practices, providing training and workshops, and building networks with state agencies.
We’re excited to work with Maine parents and families. Check out the following opportunities and learn more about us in the following sections below.
Families are invited to apply to the CEFAM Advisory Committee and help lead family engagement in Maine by sharing your knowledge and shape programming for 2023.
Take our CEFAM Topics and Interest Survey and let us know the key issues and interests affecting Maine families.
Stay up to date with family engagement news in Maine @CEFAM_MAEC on X/Twitter!
Parent Powered offers a unique family-engagement curriculum, Ready4K Trauma Informed, that uses text messaging to promote child development and meet families where they are. Parents receive weekly messages with local resources, tools, and critical data supporting families in need. There are currently 2,000+ families in Maine with access to Ready4K. The curriculum is for birth to 8th grade and is available in over ten languages.
Maine parents can build leadership and advocacy skills and participate in state policy decision-making for their children through the Maine Parent Ambassador program, coordinated by partner organization Maine Community Action Partnership. This year, Parent Ambassadors made successful program application submissions and will present at this year’s National Head Start conference in Washington, D.C., and the Parent and Family Engagement Conference Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Contact info@mecap.org with questions.
The Consortium for Engaging Families Across Maine (CEFAM) is a project of MAEC, Inc. The US Department of Education funds CEFAM under Title IV, part E of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).
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