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RAISE hosts webinars for the RSA PTIs, individuals with disabilities and their families, and for our partners. Recordings of the webinar are available here and on our YouTube page. Each webinar is accompanied by a PowerPoint slide deck, a list of relevant resources, and other handouts for use by participants. Click on any title below to view that webinar in more detail.
Reimagining Advocacy: Promoting an Authentic Secondary Transition – Nov 15, 2021
Aligning advocacy activities with an often-changing secondary transition landscape can be a challenge for parent training professionals. Providing effective supports to families requires moving away from traditional compliance-based strategies and moving towards an approach that treats secondary transition as a very human, lifespan activity. This webinar will highlight various ways parent advocacy professionals can adjust and improve their secondary transition supports to families, including examining the pitfalls of systems-based thinking, weaving secondary transition into a continuum of advocacy services, and using a lifespan approach to help families embrace secondary transition sooner. Continue Reading Reimagining Advocacy: Promoting an Authentic Secondary Transition – Nov 15, 2021
Reimagining Advocacy: Promoting an Authentic Secondary Transition
Reimagining Advocacy: Promoting an Authentic Secondary Transition
Nov 15, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time
Aligning advocacy activities with an often-changing secondary transition landscape can be a challenge for parent training professionals. Providing effective supports to families requires moving away from secondary traditional compliance-based strategies and moving towards an approach that treats secondary transition as a very human, lifespan activity. This webinar will highlight various ways parent advocacy professionals can adjust and improve their secondary transition supports to families, including examining the pitfalls of systems-based thinking, weaving secondary transition into a continuum of advocacy services, and using a lifespan approach to help families embrace secondary transition sooner.
Presenters:
Sean Roy is the Chief Innovation and Training Officer for TransCen Inc.
Dr. Ann Deschamps is Vice President of TransCen Inc.
Laura A. Owens, Ph.D., CESP, has over 30 years of experience as a national leader in the secondary transition and disability employment field. She is currently the President of TransCen, Inc. (TCI).
Continue Reading Reimagining Advocacy: Promoting an Authentic Secondary Transition
Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Accessibility- Sept 27, 2021
Professionals and organizations are continuing to make strides in working with youth instead of around them. In support of this movement, RAISE has developed a second series of toolkits meant to provide Parent Center professionals with a framework for how to approach programming centered in youth empowerment. Continue Reading Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Accessibility- Sept 27, 2021