Family Footprints Newsletter OCPS ESE
OCPS ESE Parent Support Team
Newsletter for Bright Feats Magazine
Spring 2018
OCPS PARENT ACADEMY
The OCPS Parent Academy conducts
family events online and at school locations
throughout the school year. These events
take place typically on Saturdays at high
school campuses. The ESE Parent Support
Team gives a presentation at each school
based Parent Academy, and has an exhibitor’s
table.
Attending these Saturday workshops
gives ESE families an opportunity to learn
more about their child’s IEP, collaborative
school partnerships, transition times in development,
and how to access community
resources.
OCPS ESE PARENT SUPPORT TEAM
The OCPS parent services program for
Exceptional Student Education is a parent
to parent partnership funded through the
Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act. This program offers peer support,
community resource access, District
information important to families, and acts
as a conduit between schools and families
in need.
The program is designed to empower
parents to advocate for their own children
and to help parents teach their children
self-advocacy skills. Availability is
important, so our team answers emails and
takes parent phone calls at all hours, seven
days a week.
The parent services program is
administered by parents of OCPS students
with disabilities who contract with the
District and are not employees. These
services for support and information are
available in person, via the telephone, and
online through email and our
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Parent Support Team pages at
www.ese.ocps.net. We provide the
information for this newsletter in Bright
Feats magazine and contribute content to
the OCPS ESE Facebook page.
OCPS ESE Department
Fort Gatlin Administrative Center
3909 S. Summerlin Ave
Orlando FL 32806
407-317-3200 Ext. 2002614
OCPS ESE PARENT SUPPORT
TEAM CONTACTS
Sarah Sequenzia
District Parent Liaison
Northeast Orange County
Sarah.sequenzia@ocps.net
321-228-9772 cell
Jill Morrison
Southeast Orange County
Jill.morrison@ocps.net
407-256-4212 cell
Carmen Ziers
Spanish for the District
Northwest Orange County
Carmen.ziers@ocps.net
407-701-7723 cell
Leila Brihoum (French, Arabic)
Southwest Orange County
Leila.brihoum@ocps.net
407-731-9033 cell
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