Parent Center Updates

HOPE CPRC in North Carolina Launches Interactive Web Components

Wyoming Director Visits White House

Announcements & News

TA&D Center of the Month: National Center to Inform Policy and Practice in Special Education Professional Development (NCIPP)

Breaking Schools’ Rules Discipline Report

Resources

CDC Autism Fact Sheet Available in Multiple Languages

Affordable Care Act Information for Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions

U.S. Department of Education 2009-10 Civil Rights Data

IRIS Center English Language Learner Module

Getting a Job! Website

Nonprofit Management

National Center for Family Literacy Mini-Grants

Technology

The “Social” Conference

Parent Center Updates

HOPE CPRC in North Carolina Launches Interactive Web Components

HOPE, a Community Parent Resource Center in North Carolina, launched a new blog on their website that provides families the opportunity to share comments on specific topics such as summer activities for children with disabilities. HOPE also recently added a web form for parents and others to ask direct questions of HOPE and receive individual responses. Learn more about HOPE’s services for families on their website or Facebook page. HOPE is directed by Vickie Dieter.

Wyoming Director Visits White House

Wyoming PTI Director Terri Dawson was recently selected to visit the White House as part their Community Leader Briefing Series. The series provides opportunities for grass roots leaders from across the country to visit with White House administration staff and share their ideas and concerns in their area of expertise. Terri attended the session on August 5. Learn more about the White House Community Leaders Briefing Series and Parents Helping Parents, Wyoming’s PTI. Congratulations, Terri, on this exciting honor!

Announcements & News

TA&D Center of the Month: National Center to Inform Policy and Practice in Special Education Professional Development (NCIPP)

 The National Center to Inform Policy and Practice in Special Education Professional Development (NCIPP) works to improve teacher quality and increase commitment to teaching students with disabilities by conducting research on special education policy and practice on induction and mentoring and providing technical assistance on induction and mentoring implementation strategies. NCIPP recently conducted a webinar focusing on effective models of collaboration between general and special education teachers. More>>>

Breaking Schools’ Rules Discipline Report

Breaking Schools’ Rules: a Statewide Study on How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement examines longitudinal discipline rates in secondary students across Texas. Among other findings, the study by the Council of State Governments Justice Center showed that African-American students and children with particular educational disabilities who qualify for special education were suspended and expelled at especially high rates. More>>>

Resources

CDC Autism Fact Sheet Available in Multiple Languages

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Campaign’s autism fact sheet has been translated by the USC University Center for Excellence into multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese and is available on their website: http://uscucedd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=455&Itemid=426. The fact sheet is also available in English and Spanish at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/downloads.html.

Affordable Care Act Information for Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions

This fact sheet from Portland State University’s Tran­sition Policy Consortium, Re­search and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Fu­tures summarizes the impact of health care reform on young adults with serious mental health conditions. More>>>

U.S. Department of Education 2009-10 Civil Rights Data

On June 30, the U.S. Department of Education released Part 1 of the 2009-2010 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), revealing the nation’s disparities in educational opportunities and resources for students across the country. The study looked at 7,000 districts and examined data such as access to the rigorous sequence of college and career-ready math and science courses, the number of first and second-year teachers in schools, the number of high school counselors in schools, availability of pre-K and kindergarten programs, districts operating under desegregation orders or plans, and whether districts have written policies prohibiting harassment and bullying on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or disability. More>>>

IRIS Center English Language Learner Module

The newest free online training module from IRIS, Teaching English Language Learners: Effective Instructional Practices, provides educators with information on topics such as second language acquisition, sheltered instruction, differentiated instruction, vocabulary instruction, and others. Today’s schools include students who speak more than 400 languages. More>>>

Getting a Job! Website

PEPNet's Getting a Job! Tools, Techniques, and Trainings website was developed and designed for students who are deaf or hard of hearing transitioning to work and the professionals who work with them. The website offers a series of topical videos accompanied by supporting documents and related materials, educator's guides and role model videos. ASL is the source language for these videos. They are also captioned and voiced in English. More>>>

Nonprofit Management

National Center for Family Literacy Mini-Grants

National Center for Family Literacy Grant is offering $500 mini-grants to nonprofits and schools to create new ways to use their Wonderopolis learning website that provides activities to promote learning at home and in the community. Applications are due August 19. More>>>

Technology

The “Social” Conference

This article from the HHS Center for New Media provides tips for making in-person conferences more “social” through blogging or Twitter. More>>>