Family Liaison Newsletter - Issue 7, May 2025

We hope you enjoy the resources highlighted in our May newsletter. Please contact Churchill Road Family Liaison, Nisha Bhatia, nbhatia1@fcps.edu, or by calling the front office before 11:00 a.m., Monday-Friday.

FCPS has many resources for families designed to increase engagement and partnerships with families while fostering academic success and social-emotional growth. The Family Resource Center offers free webinars, confidential consultations, a lending library, tutoring services, and resources to help adults support the success of all students, including those with learning challenges, special needs, and disabilities.The new FCPS Family Academy is a targeted outreach effort to empower and build capacity, connections, cognition, confidence, and awareness through interactive learning experiences, tools, and resources for families in FCPS through a one-stop approach.

May Webinars at the Family Resource Center

Summertime and an Idle Mind: Keeping Children Drug-Free While Home This Summer

May 16, 10-11:30 am

While students look forward to summer break, families must begin to plan what their children will do with their downtime. Participants will learn basic drug safety in the home as they prepare for their children to be home for the summer and how they can reduce the likelihood of their child using mood altering substances. Participants will understand the purpose of harm reduction and how to apply it in their conversations with youth while remaining non confrontational.Register here

Part 3 - Using Strength-Based Approach
When Communicating with
Twice- Exceptional Students

May 20, 10-11:30 am

Supporting families in recognizing common communication challenges for twice-exceptional students and understanding the principles of a strength-based approach and how it differs from a deficit-based perspective. As well as, applying practical strategies to communicate effectively with your 2e child by emphasizing strengths and fostering empowerment, using active listening and emotional coaching techniques to support your child’s confidence and emotional regulation and implementing strength-based communication strategies in real-life scenarios to enhance your child’s engagement and resilience. Register here

Fairfax County Spring/Summer Camps

Community Events and Activities

K-Club

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the Dolley Madison Library

This program is for grades K-3. Registration is required. Interested in learning Korean?

Join K-Club!