PRESENTATIONS
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Spring Forward 2022 presentations
Here are resources shared on April 30, 2022 at our 9th annual Spring Forward Family Fun Day and Workshop at the GMU Science and Tech campus in Manassas.
Half-way Hacks: Tools for Virtual Learning webinar
Shared live on February 11, 2021, this FFF webinar offers strategies and resources for refreshing your virtual learning game! A resource sheet links to materials, videos and other supports in the areas of time management, materials management, social emotional and behavior supports for younger and for older children, academic progress monitoring and accessibility.
Fostering Your Family’s Resilience during COVID, Parent/Caregiver Session at Falling Into Place family event
This session was presented by Kim Francis, LPC, as part of our virtual Falling Into Place: Celebrating Family Resilience family fun event on October 17, 2020.
Formula for Success: Self Management and Self Care, Parent/Caregiver Session at Falling Into Place family event
Recorded as part of our Falling Into Place: Celebrating Family Resilience virtual family event on October 17, this session was presented by Karen Berlin of the GMU Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC).
Special Education during a very Special Fall: What Families Should Know about IDEA during the COVID Pandemic
This webinar with Maria Blaeuer, Esq. of Advocates for Justice in Education, Inc. in Washington, DC was broadcast live on October 21, 2020. This webinar is part of our Facing Fall: FFF Answers Your Questions webinar series.
Pandemic Parenting: Brain Science, Help and Hope
This webinar from Formed Families Forward was broadcast live on May 18, 2020. Find the full recording, and 5 accompanying handouts here.
Slides from Take Action: Strategies for Supporting & Advocating for our Daughters w ADHD
November 08, 2018Slides from 11/8/18 presentation by Catherine Adams of the ADHD Resource Group of No Va and Kelly Henderson of FFF. Girls with ADHD-Parenting for 11 8 18
Getting to Work: The Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act and Students with Disabilities webinar
March 15, 2017This webinar offers timely information about the federal WIOA (Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act) provisions that apply to to school-age students with disabilities.
Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar
September 16, 2018A Formed Families Forward webinar that covers some 504 and IDEA basics, as well as some strategies for communicating with school staff and kicking off the new school year well!
Note- Recording includes some dead space at beginning; content starts at 15 minutes in.
Spring Forward breakout “Stepping it Up: Making the Most of Special Education”
Spring Forward breakout “Stepping it Up: Making the Most of Special Education” by Kelly Henderson.
Understanding the mountain:
- Basics of early intervention (birth -age 3)
- Basics of disability access
- Basics of special education (age 3 –21)
Living with the mountain: IDEA cycle
Alternative routes to scale the mountain: Special Issues for formed families
Spring Forward 2015 Pulling It All Together panel presentation
April 11, 2015Participants will…
- gain strategies for improving organization of students’ time and materials.
- learn positive approaches for communicating with school personnel generally and in IEP meetings specifically.
- identify options for addressing troubling behaviors at school and at home
- learn from and with other parents/caregivers and gather resources to use in supporting the children and youth in
their care