Sarah Phillips
East Central Illinois Regional Parent Mentor
PO Box 105
Bellflower, IL 61724
Phone: (217) 898-8395
parentmentorcentral@gmail.com
Serving Livingston, Ford,
Iroquois, Macon, Mclean, DeWitt, Piatt,
Champaign and Vermillion counties
Sarah has a total of eight
children, six of them have special needs and are receiving services
in the Blue Ridge school district. Sarah was a foster parent for
ten years and adopted six children through DCFS. She also has
worked with the Illinois Foster Adoptive Parent Association for
fifteen plus years and is currently on their board of directors.
One of her roles with this organization is to represent the group
on as a member of the Adoption Advisory Council for DCFS. Sarah is
a Special Olympics coach for Mahomet-Seymour group. Sarah also has
an Associate's degree from Parkland College and a Bachelors' in
Arts with a minor in psychology from Eastern Illinois
University.
Tri County Special Education has
received grant funding from the Illinois State Board of Education
to fund this position. This parent mentor position has
been expanded to cover specific counties of Illinois. One of
our goals is to locate and/or develop support groups for
parents of children with disabilities and connect parents to those
groups. Sarah will work with parents to create a support network
for parents, as well as guide parents through the maze of special
education.
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