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It’s Not Crazy Making: Helping Youth with Mental Health Needs Avoid Transition Cliffs
Web-based Event
No Location Specified
http://www.dynamicinstitute.com/Catalog/catalog_detail.cfm?ClassID=2568
Youth with educational and career challenges, such as those with mental health needs, too often fall off the cliff between youth and adult systems or get sent down an inappropriate service tunnel based on considerations given by the system rather than the youth’s wants and needs. This webinar will provide information on the incidence of mental health needs in youth, and on strategies and services that might benefit youth with mental health needs. It will discuss support services needed for youth with mental health needs entering the workforce and include information on developing practical and effective policies, suggestions for creating greater collaboration among programs, and strategies for developing an improved transition and workforce development system for youth, including youth with mental health needs.
Informed Consent and Meaningful Participation under Idea
Web-based Event
February 9, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Eastern)
http://www.copaa.org/training/webinars.html
IDEA has included since its initial passage the right of informed consent. This presentation examines the origin, meaning and application of this right, as well as the use of the right of consent in evaluations, reevaluations, IEP development, placement and access, with suggestions for managing these issues and obtaining access to all relevant information for a parent’s right of decision making. This webinar will be presented by Jon Zimring, Esq., and sponsored by the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA).
Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) 47th Annual International Conference
Conference
February 17, 2010 - February 20, 2010
Baltimore, MD
http://www.ldaamerica.org/conference/index.asp
Sponsored by the LDA of America, the LDA Conference is the largest meeting on learning disabilities in the world, featuring over 300 workshops and exhibits presenting the latest in LD research, effective teaching techniques and strategies, and critical policy issues, with opportunities to network with experts in LD and colleagues, and to make new friends and earn graduate or continuing education credits (CEUs). The 2010 Conference is in Baltimore, at the Baltimore Marriot Waterfront.
Disabilities Awareness Conference
Conference
April 15, 2010
Piscataway, NJ
http://lrc.rutgers.edu/dwc_home.shtml
The Disabilities Awareness Conference, held by Rutgers University, invites those involved in the field of secondary and postsecondary education, disability professionals, returning veterans, parents, students, and interested others to a one-day conference addressing disabilities on campus and in the workplace. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Wise Young, who is a leader in the field of spinal cord injury research, Founding Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, and the first person to hold the Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience at Rutgers University.
Council for Exceptional Children 2010 Convention and Expo
Conference
April 21, 2010 - April 24, 2010
Nashville, TN
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/ConventionExpo/
The Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo is the largest professional development event dedicated to special and gifted education. It will be held in Nashville, TN, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center. Advance registration rates will be available until April 2, 2010.
Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability
Conference
April 27, 2010 - April 28, 2010
Columbus, OH
http://ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm
Sponsored by Ohio State University and held at the Columbus Campus, the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability conference is intended to serve as a catalyst for positive change and a beginning point for collaborations with partners in education, business, public and social service. Each year a series of workshops provides a forum for individuals and organizations to expand their knowledge and perspectives, and an opportunity to increase community resources through collaboration. The workshops bring a diverse audience together to discuss the full spectrum of disability issues and experiences.
Get Wired!
Funding Forecast
Federal Grant Opportunities
Forecast of Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year 2010
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
This document lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the U.S. Department of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards for fiscal year 2010 and provides actual or estimated deadlines for the transmittal of applications under these programs. The lists are in the form of charts organized according to the Department’s principal program offices and include programs and competitions previously announced as well as those to be announced at a later date.
FY 2009-2010 Discretionary Grant Application Packages
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html
This site, from the Department of Education, provides information on grant competitions that are currently open.
Additional Funding and Award Opportunities
Corporation for National and Community Service Announces Availability of Funding to Support Service-Learning
http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1645
Grants of up to $120,000 will be awarded to Indian tribes and U.S. territories working to engage school-age youth in service-learning projects that simultaneously support student development and meet community needs. The grants will fund programs that focus on: supporting high-quality service-learning sponsored by Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories and enhancing the infrastructure in schools and communities to support on-going service-learning programming; promoting healthy communities and healthy youth, increasing student civic, academic and leadership skills and those that support Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories working with schools to expand service-learning into more tribal communities that will involve students in service-learning projects. Deadline: March 9, 2010.
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