Special Education Advocacy

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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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.

  • PPT, Conquering the Back to School Shift Lunch and Learn

    Presentation slides

  • Webinar, Conquering the Back to School Shift Lunch and Learn

    Va Family Network Broadcast Recording

  • Document, Conquering the Back to School Shift Lunch and Learn

    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.

 

  • Webinar, Special Education during a very Special Fall: What Families Should Know about IDEA during the COVID Pandemic

    Webinar presentation recording

  • PDF, Special Education during a very Special Fall: What Families Should Know about IDEA during the COVID Pandemic

    Presentation slides

  • PDF, Special Education during a very Special Fall: What Families Should Know about IDEA during the COVID Pandemic

    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.

  • Document, Formed Families Forward Podcast on Special Parents Confidential

    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.

  • Video, Special Education Hacks that Help Students with Mental Health Conditions


Slides from Take Action: Strategies for Supporting & Advocating for our Daughters w ADHD
November 08, 2018

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

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


Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar
September 16, 2018

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.

  • Webinar, Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar

  • PDF, Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar


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

  • PPT, Spring Forward breakout “Stepping it Up: Making the Most of Special Education”


Spring Forward 2015 Pulling It All Together panel presentation
April 11, 2015

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
  • PPT, Spring Forward 2015 Pulling It All Together panel presentation