Resources
Parent Liaison
Parent liaisons serve as a link between families and schools.
Thoreau's Liason is Mrs. Mirta Mutis Benítez @email
703-846-8007
Monday to Friday 9am to 12noon
Vaping: What Students Should Know is now live: https://www.fcps.edu/vaping. This student-focused webpage provides information about vaping risks, resources, and videos featuring FCPS students.
Vaping:What Students Should Know
Feeling super stressed? Worried about a friend's mental health—or your own? Get tips to help manage your emotions and see what to do if you are in crisis.
FCPS Office of Special Services
The Office of Special Education Instruction directs and supports the development, implementation, operation, and evaluation of Pre-K–12 educational programs, curricula, and services that meet the unique needs of students with disabilities.
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
ESOL services prepare students to be college and career ready by developing proficiency in the English language. ESOL services help students achieve academic success, develop critical thinking skills, and solve problems.
School Psychology Services
School psychologists are mental health specialists with knowledge of child development, the psychology of learning, behavior management and intervention, monitoring the progress of students, and program evaluation
Social Work and Support Services
School social workers focus on family and community factors that influence learning. They provide intensive services for students facing issues that pose risks to their academic success such as parent divorce and separation, grief, poverty, truancy, chronic illness, mental health problems, conduct problems, child abuse, etc.
Contact your school social workers if you need help finding affordable lunch for your children, food, holiday meals, clothing, school supplies, and eye glasses. They can also help your children maintain stability at school, should your family lose your stable housing. A federal law protects your children’s right to attend their same school even if your family loses stable housing.
Free and Reduced Lunch
Community Building Use
Parent Resource Center
The PRC offers many services for families experiencing traumatic/stressful events, and for families of special needs students.
Transportation Services
The Office of Transportation Services is responsible for providing the safe and efficient transportation of all eligible students to and from schools and school activities each day. Transportation Services includes buses, kindergarten transportation, walking and bicycling, kiss and ride, and driving to school