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| PiCED Staff and PiCED Executive Director Sandra King-Young |
The second annual American Samoa Parent Empowerment Summit was held at the Lee’s Auditorium in Utulei on Wednesday, Feb 16th, 2011. The Summit attracted parents, grandparents, teachers, and administrators, who joined together for a half-day session on the theme; “I’m a Parent, I’m the First Teacher”. Speakers included Honorable Vaamua Henry Sesepara of the American Samoa House of Representatives, who is also the territorial PTA president, Dr. Taeaoafua Meki Solomona, the public relations manager of Star Kist Samoa, and founder and executive director of PiCED, Mrs. Sandra King-Young. All those that were in attendance, left that day feeling inspired to do more to help their children be successful in school and life.
During a roundtable activity at the Summit titled “Three Great Ideas”, participants had an opportunity to discuss responses to the three given questions: 1) What can my child’s school do to help me be a more involved parent? 2) What can my child’s school PTA do to help me be more involved? 3) What am I willing to do, as a parent, to be more involved in my child’s school?, and decide on one great idea to share with the big group. ASPIRC staff is compiling the information from this group activity to present to ASDOE, as one of the outcomes from the summit, to help with future planning.
ASPIRC acknowledges the generous donation of $500 towards the venue usage fee from the Department of Youth & Women’s Affairs of government, which enabled the summit to be held at a more central location, the Lee’s Auditorium in Utulei. Also, to support the summit’s raffle were donations from the following businesses; Forsgren Laufou, Nuuuli Service Station, Star Kist Samoa, Interisland Vacations Airways, Cherries Hair Salon, Computer World, Panamex Pacific, Wallace Theater, and Tradewinds hotel.
For more information about ASPIRC, contact us at (684) 699-6074/6094/6095.
ASPIRC is a project of PiCED, a non-profit organization, and is funded by a grant from the U.S Department of Education.
