Just So You Know… Strategies for Nontraditional Families to Share Their Information with Schools “All About Me” template

Just So You Know… Strategies for Nontraditional Families to Share Their Information with Schools “All About Me” template.

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  Sample completed All About Me

Conquering the Back to School Shift Lunch and Learn

Broadcast live on February 23, 2021, FFF’s Kelly Henderson presented a Lunch and Learn for Virginia Family Network, NAMI of Virginia.

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  Presentation slides

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  Va Family Network Broadcast Recording

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  Resource links handout

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.

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  Webinar presentation recording

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  Presentation slides

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  Handout, Virginia guidance with highlights

Formed Families Forward Podcast on Special Parents Confidential

A podcast featuring Formed Families Forward, recorded in July 2020, with Special Parents Confidential.

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  Special Parents Confidential

Special Education Hacks that Help Students with Mental Health Conditions

A presentation by FFF Director Kelly Henderson for the NAMI of Virginia Family and Youth Virtual Summit on May 16, 2020. Includes some COVID-related specifics at conclusion of the session.

Slides from Take Action: Strategies for Supporting & Advocating for our Daughters w ADHD

Slides 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

Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar

A 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

Participants 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