Bilingual Liaisons in Chesterfield County Public Schools

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

Chesterfield County Public Schools has created positions in ten elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school in which a high percentage of the student’s population’s home language is Spanish. Bilingual Liaisons’ mission is to continue to create equitable opportunities for families to be fully knowledgeable about their children’s education, creating bridges to access information, workshops, and school events, where language may have been an obstacle before. Bilingual Liaisons work tirelessly to successfully ensure pathways to communication, participation, and engagement and to empower families to improve academic outcomes for their children. These critical employees create and facilitate the incorporation of caregivers whose primary language is Spanish into the education of their children while fostering trusting relationships and designing programs and workshops in direct response to the needs expressed from their school community. Bilingual Liaisons are well-versed in school and community resources which serve the needs of the Spanish-speaking families in their schools while building an understanding of Chesterfield County Public School’s education system.