Our Community/School Partnership Initiative

Created in 2004, PEAC’s Community/School Partnership Initiative provides successful, research-based community engagement services to Ashtabula County schools. Expert consultants assist school districts in reaching out to their citizenry, who learn why active participation in education boosts student achievement and civic responsibility, as well as economic growth.

These partnerships help citizens, business and community leaders, and educators to identify the kind of community of which they want to be a part, identify the means that will support their vision, and enable them to act on their vision. Follow-up coaching and training is also included in the Community/School Partnership Initiative, through PEAC as the central and coordinating organization. These best- practice partnerships are designed to be ongoing and supportive, with the end goal of each Ashtabula County school district’s Community/School Partnership becoming self-sustaining.

School districts who have utilized PEAC’s Community/School Partnership Initiative report:

Partnering with their community in decisions that will have long-term effects on quality of life reduces conflict.
Deliberative community partnerships can lead to better, longer lasting and wiser decisions.
Community partnering and participation builds citizen competence.
Community partnerships cultivate mutual understanding; build bonds of trust among citizens, decision makers and governing institutions; and can effect changes in attitudes and behaviors which benefit the entire community.

Funding for PEAC’s Community/School Partnership Initiative comes from the Civic Development Corporation, the Ashtabula Foundation, the Robert S. Morrison Foundation, the American Society for Quality, and the U.S. Department of Education. Federal funding was made possible through U.S. Congressman Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH-14).

Individual or corporate donations may be made through the Friends of PEAC .

Ashtabula County's Public School Districts

	Ashtabula Area City Schools

	Buckeye Local Schools

	Conneaut Area City Schools

	Geneva Area City Schools

	Grand Valley Local Schools

	Jefferson Area Local Schools

	Pymatuning Valley Local Schools

	Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School