Parent-Staff Association

The Care committee committee organizes volunteers who provide prepared meals or rides to school for CFS families experiencing loss, illness, or hardship.

If you would like to request Care meals, join Care, or have any questions, please contact Care Co-conveners Sadie Bauer at sadiebauer12@gmail.com or Cheryl Bolick at cbolick@email.unc.edu.

Care is simple: request when needed, offer when able.

What is a Care request? A request from a CFS family for meals and/or rides to school.

What is a Care meal? A homemade or store-bought, ready-to-heat-and-eat meal that will feed the number of family members in a Care request. Care meals are packaged in non-returnable containers. Allergens, dietary restrictions, or other nutritional needs are respected. Dessert and utensils are not required.

How to request Care meals anonymously: Contact a single person (such as your child’s head teacher, unit liaison, staff member, trusted friend, or Care Committee member). Provide basic information regarding number of people eating, meal frequency and preferences, and allergy concerns. Your contact person will communicate your needs (anonymously) to the Care co-conveners.

How to ask for Care meals or rides non-anonymously: Contact a Care Co-Convener or Care’s staff liaison, Charlie Layman. Share as few or as many details as you like. Some families request semi-privacy, choosing to share only generalities. Other families prefer to share personal details, requesting emotional support from the Care community. Care operates comfortably either way and will share with Care volunteers only the information you choose.

Who are Care members? Currently, Care’s 185 volunteer members include parents, teachers, staff, alum, alum parents, and board members. Many Care members were once Care recipients themselves.

How are Care meals delivered? Care volunteers deliver prepared meals to a designated Care refrigerator in the rear lobby of the Center Building. Care recipients (or their designated contact person) may pick-up meals after 3:00 pm. Anonymous families/representatives may enter through the side door (via the handicap access ramp) if they so choose.

How to join Care: Simply provide Care Co-Conveners with your email address. Throughout the school year, whenever a family requests Care, you will receive an email with a link to an online meal calendar. You decide how/if/when you are able to provide a meal, ride, or emotional support.

In addition to all-school gatherings and social events for parents and guardians, the PSA has coordinated a number of different programming opportunities, including community service, community read discussions, and more.

Please direct inquiries to: cfspsa@gmail.com.

Any community member can support the School while grocery shopping thanks to efforts coordinated by the PSA Grocery Committee. This fundraiser brings tens of thousands of dollars annually into our children's classrooms! In addition to buying grocery cards or linking your shopping account, you can also volunteer to help the committee.

You may join Grocery Committee by contacting co-conveners Shari Fischer and Libby Searles-Bohs at cfsgrocery@gmail.com.

• Place a one-time order for gift cards from Whole Foods, Weaver Street Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Food Lion, or Durham Co-op Market. We’ll email when your order’s ready for pickup from the Chapel Hill or Durham Early Schools or from the Center Office.
• Set up a monthly Whole Foods, Sprouts, Food Lion, or Durham Co-op Market Gift Card order for pickup in the Center, CHES, or DES. We'll send an email reminder each month when your order is ready for pick up.
• Let us link your Harris Teeter VIC. Enter your information once and we’ll re-link each August. You can opt-out whenever you wish. Family and friends can also participate, so share the link. The CFS code is 3402.

Unit liaisons are also a part of the PSA. Each unit of the school has a number of parents who serve as parent liaisons. The liaisons serve to assist the Head Teacher of each unit in a myriad ways including: helping coordinate parent volunteers; helping foster community through programming; and communicating with parents. Liaisons are also a resource for parents who have questions or concerns they want to discuss with another parent.

Please direct inquiries to: cfspsa@gmail.com.

Volunteers with the Welcome Committee welcome new families to Carolina Friends School by organizing buddy families and parent get-togethers. The Welcome Committee comprises parents in the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools who work with the Office of Enrollment to help new families transition to CFS. (The Early Schools, which are smaller and where a higher percentage of students are new each year, arrange their own welcome experiences for families.)

Please direct inquiries to: cfspsa@gmail.com.

The Parents of Students of Color group works with Naa Adom, Directory of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity, to provide a forum for discussion, plan programming related to being a culturally responsive and antiracist school, and provide feedback.