Urban League Hosts Back-to-School Parent Leadership Conference

Parents were equipped with knowledge at the Back-to-school parent leadership conference, as the annual event returned to the Midlands. The event aims to help students that may be struggling in the classroom, sharing tools and knowledge with parents that could help keep their kids on track academically.

Dozens of parents came out here to Trinity Baptist Church to find out more about educational resources that are out in the community that can help their children succeed.

“It’s really important that we reach out to the community and give them the tools that they need in order to meet the achievement standards,” said, J.T. McLawhorn, President and CEO of Columbia Urban League (Columbia, SC).

It tells parents how certain processes in the education system work and introduces them to statewide resources that aim to help students grow up into hard-working adults.

“We have a panel talking about IEP’s and 504 plans and how to navigate that system within the school system, we have someone doing a seminar on bridging the gap with autism,” said Juanita Dean Bates, a Program Director with Columbia Urban League said, “We don’t think about the disabilities that some of our students have in schools and a lot of parents don’t understand or know where to find the resources.”

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