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Clarification on family enrichment centers and family welcome centers
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Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos clarifies the difference between family enrichment centers, family welcome centers, and the new Division of Family, Community, and Student Empowerment.
- Family welcome centers offer support for families during enrollment and transfers
- The new division aims to centralize support for families and standardize practices across districts
- The division focuses on expanding opportunities for family empowerment and authentic student engagement in decision-making processes
Farah Louis
0:50:32
Is this in addition to the family enrichment centers or this is separate?
Cristina Melendez
0:50:38
Family enrichment centers.
Farah Louis
0:50:42
I may have the name wrong, where parents have to go when they're having issues.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
0:50:46
You mean the family welcome centers for
Monique Scales
0:50:49
the enrollment?
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
0:50:51
Question.
0:50:51
The family welcome centers and First Deputy Chancellor oversees Office of Enrollment.
0:50:57
We have our enrollment chief here as well, but in short, those family welcome centers offer family support when they are enrolling transfers.
0:51:06
What we're really talking about is, in this particular division, is how do we centralize, support for our families so we can standardize practices across our districts.
0:51:16
So we have our family leadership coordinators.
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We have a number of people who are both in district and school offices.
0:51:22
We also have our parent coordinators.
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We want to make sure that we're really working closely with our families, not only just our PTA and PA presidents and SLT members, but also just parents who want to be a part of New York City public schools decision making.
0:51:36
We understand that there are time constraints, and so we're trying to be really flexible and creative on how we can expand those opportunities for empowerment.
0:51:43
When we talk about students, we want to make sure that it's not just checking a box and saying, we visited a couple of schools and we spoke to kids.
0:51:51
I mean, we clearly have amazing students with us here today and organically and authentically engaging in these processes, but we wanna make sure that that's not true for some kids.
0:51:59
It's true for all of our kids, but our school leaders and our district leaders need that support, and it's our responsibility as central to be in service of them and really standardize what some of those good practices are and provide the right support and training.
Farah Louis
0:52:12
Thank you.
0:52:13
You for the clarity.
Daniel Weisberg
0:52:13
Council member oh, sorry, excuse me.