The leadership of the Parent, Family, and Community Network (PFCN) is on a mission in 2024 to help you find more ways to learn and connect with others about your gifted and 2e kiddos! Did you know that our network has eight amazing areas of focus? They are:

1. Building partnerships with families, schools, businesses, industries, civic and service groups, helping professionals, and other communities.
2. Facilitating education, assistance, and support for families of the gifted.
3. Locating, developing, and disseminating relevant resources, programs, and materials.
4. Assisting educators in working with gifted students, parents, families, and communities.
5. Increasing public recognition of and support for the needs of the gifted.
6. Linking gifted individuals with other gifted individuals in the wider community.
7. Encouraging and assisting the development of local and state organizations to support gifted education.
8. Linking with other networks and organizations to help fulfill common goals.

Along with connecting you with others, we want to address our network’s areas of focus with purposeful planning and the creation of fabulous resources. Our hope is the resources we create and share will allow you to turn around and use them today. As you can imagine this will be quite a journey throughout the year to meet our goals, but we can’t do it without your support and active engagement. We have many ideas and surprises planned along the way, so pause reading this blog and join our network right now. Hey, you are still reading. What are you waiting for? Go join so you do not miss all of our announcements and events as they are shared!

Alright, now that we have you signed up for the network and all the upcoming announcements, let’s move on from the build-up and suspense.

We are excited to announce that this year we are starting a virtual series of webinars and informal “Chat” meetings on topics selected by our membership last year. Amazing right!?! We are still working out some of the finer details for each event, but there is good news. The good news is that since you just joined the network a few moments ago, we will be sending out announcements and reminders through our Network. As a member, you will now get all of these notifications, so you will not miss out on all the fun, information, and connections during these events. We hope you are as excited as we are for these new events from the PFCN!

Here is the current schedule of events, but as we mentioned, we have many ideas so this schedule may evolve throughout the year. Stay tuned!

Webinars

• Advocacy Series
  • Part 1: February 28, 7:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern
    • Special Guest & Speaker - Dr. Christine Deitz
  • Part 2: September 25, 7:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern
    

Chat Meetings

• Friendships & Social Skills (SEL)
  • April 24, 7:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern
• Resources for boredom/motivation
  • July 31, 7:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern

If you have other ideas or suggestions for potential webinars or chat meeting discussions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We love the inspiration and ideas that come from chatting with our members!

We are looking forward to seeing you during our first Webinar event on February 28th from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EST) when Dr. Christine Deitz joins us to kick off this important topic within gifted education! Advocacy is so critical, not just for parents, but also for our kids, their teachers, and others in our community to ensure the needs of our kids are being met.

See you soon!

Jessica LaFollette, PFCN Chair
Dr. Kali Fedor, PFCN Chair-Elect