The Windsor Essex Catholic Schools Parent Involvement Committee is established by the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board in accordance with Ontario Regulation 612/00 School Councils and Parent Involvement Committees made under the Education Act. The Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) is a parent-led committee that is advisory in nature and governed by Ontario Regulation 612/00 School Councils and Parent Involvement Committees made under the Education Act, and the policies and regulations of the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board.

Members of the Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) are valued partners of the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board. The PIC will champion and demonstrate a commitment to parental engagement at home, school and parish, contribute to effective meetings, participate in sub-committee work, represent the broad parent interest with respect to all PIC work and deliberations, and provide input/feedback and raise issues as a representative of a Board Committee.

The purpose of the Windsor Essex Catholic Schools PIC is to:

• support, encourage and enhance parent engagement at the board level in order to improve student faith formation, achievement and well-being.

The Windsor Essex Catholic Schools PIC is beginning the discernment process for the 2011 - 2012 PIC membership positions:

• Ten parent members who shall serve a one- or two-year term (to ensure continuity the PIC shall strive to have four (4) two-year term parent representatives at all times)
  • one parent representative from each Family of Schools (8 total parent representatives: 5 elementary and 3 secondary)
  • one parent of a student(s) who is an English language learner
  • one parent of a student(s) with special needs

• Three community representatives who shall serve a one-year term
  • one Diocesan representative
  • one representative from the local post-secondary community
  • representative from the community "at large", with consideration given to a representative from the "newcomer" community

• Alternate Parent Members: Three parents will be appointed to serve a one-year term as "alternate" members when needed to replace parents when an absence is unavoidable (the alternate parent members will be selected "at large" and must hold the qualifications to be a Catholic school trustee.) When called upon, an alternate member will advise the Chair of his or her status at the beginning of each meeting in order to have voting privileges.

Individuals may express their interest in participating on the PIC by submitting a "Membership Interest Form" to the attention of Bernie Robinet, Interim PIC Chair at picchair2011@wecdsb.on.ca

• To learn more about the membership process please refer to the Terms of Reference for the Windsor Essex Catholic Schools Parent Involvement Committee

• Angela Brink, Catholic Central Family Representative
• Shelley Bolger, Holy Names Family Representative
• Julie St. John, St. Joseph’s Family Representative
• Dana Tonus, St. Thomas of Villanova Family Representative
• Derek Thachuk, Cardinal Carter Family Representative

• Heather Sawyer, Alternate Representative Elementary
• John Blevins, 2nd Alternate Representative Elementary

• Heather McAuley, Assumption Family Representative
• Donalda Turner, F. J. Brennan Family Representative
• Andrea Mason, St. Anne Family Representative

• Gina Antogiovanni, Alternate Representative, Secondary

• Hilda Shamoon, ELL Representative
• Anita DeLuca-Carlini, Special Needs Representative
• Rev. Fr. Dwayne Adam, Diocesan Representative
• Michael Houston, Post Secondary Representative
• Christine McCarthy-Romanick, At Large Representative

• Frank Favot, Trustee Representative
• Joan Courtney, Alternate Trustee Representative
• JoAnne Shea, Superintendent - Board Representative
• Emelda Byrne, Superintendent - Board Representative
• Rosemary LoFaso, Vice-Principal – Safe Schools – Board Representative

Meetings of the PIC are open to the public. Members of the school community, including parents, students, Catholic School Advisory Council members, supervisory officers, trustees, principals, vice-principals, staff and other stakeholders are welcome to attend meetings. Meetings will be held alternately between the John Paul II Boardroom at the Windsor-Essex Catholic Education Centre at 1325 California Avenue in Windsor and the Essex Civic Centre at 360 Fairview Avenue in Essex at 6:30 p.m.

Date	Agenda	Minutes
November 24th, 2011 - CEC
January 26th, 2012 - Essex Civic Centre
March 29th, 2012 - St. Christopher(Library) @ 6:30pm
May 31st, 2012 - St. Thomas of Villanova(Library) @ 6:30pm

• Foundations of Faith and Learning - System Priorities 2009 - 2014 (WECDSB)
• Our Journey to Holiness (WECDSB)
• Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations (Institute for Catholic Education)

• Parents in Partnership: A Parent Engagement Policy for Ontario Schools
  • Fact Sheet Parent Engagement
• Ontario Regulation 612/00 School Councils and Parent Involvement Committees
  • Fact Sheet Parent Involvement Committees
  • Making a Difference: A Practical Handbook for Parent Involvement Committee Members
  • School Councils - A Guide for Members
• Ministry of Education - Parent Engagement Online Resources
• Ministry of Education - Parents Reaching Out Grants

• Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)