October / November 2017
PRN for Families Presents at the Fusion Education Group’s
EPIC! Leadership Conference
PRN for Families was honored to be invited guest speakers at the 2017 Fusion Education Group’s EPIC! Leadership conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan in October.
With many years of experience collaborating together in support of families and students, Fusion Academy and PRN for Families share a common philosophy of creating customized and individualized programming to best meet the unique needs of every client and family.
PRN’s Founder and Director, Charles Elias, and Director of Outreach and Marketing, Mary Jo DeGrandi, co-presented on the topic of Family Preservation: Creating a Community of Care. Originally designed to prevent families from having to relinquish their children to the foster care system, Family Preservation (also known as the Homebuilders Model) is a well-established and outcome-driven model of care that focuses on creating a communicative and collaborative team of both professionals and natural supports within the family’s own community in order to best meet their educational, social-emotional, physical, and mental health needs. PRN and Fusion Academy have shared in creating such support networks for families since 2010, when Charles worked with the very first Fusion Academy campus staff in Solana Beach, California. Since then, PRN and Fusion Academy have worked together on behalf of families in northern and southern California, in New York, and New Jersey.
PRN for Families looks forward to our continued collaboration with Fusion Academy! Stay tuned as Charles will be co-presenting with Fusion’s Vice President of Education, Grace Colman Losada, Ed.D., at the NATSAP Annual Conference in January 2018!
PRN for Families is Hiring!
Join the PRN for Families Team!
PRN for Families is seeking energetic, driven, creative, hard working, and highly qualified professionals to join our team in the following positions:
- Director of Admissions
- Senior Clinician / Family Consultant
We are looking for the right individuals to join our team. Period.
These individuals will have:
- A desire to have the best outcomes for every client and family;
- An honest, genuine, and caring approach with families, as well as with co-workers and colleagues.
- Self-confidence and the desire to learn and grow.
- An understanding of his or her role as part of a team, placing value on the contributions of each team member.
- The passion and enthusiasm to be part of an established but ever growing agency in which individual skills, experience and talent are valued and supported.
For more complete position descriptions, as well as for consideration for either of these positions, please contact and/or email your resume to mjdegrandi@prnforfamilies.com.
See you at IECA!
PRN is always eager to connect with our independent educational consultant and program colleagues. We attend many professional conferences and symposia throughout the year, enjoying the opportunity to learn, grow, network and share successes and challenges.
Among our favorite conferences is the fall Independent Educational Consultant Education Conference (IECA), this year in Washington DC. Patricia Ruggles, Family Consultant; Mary Jo DeGrandi, Director of Outreach & Marketing; and Charles Elias, Founder & Director, will all be in DC and are looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues throughout the week.
BE SURE TO STOP BY OUR TABLE AT THE INFORMATION SWAP–
WE WILL HAVE OUR GORGEOUS 2018 PRN FOR FAMILIES WALL CALENDARS WAITING FOR YOU!
