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MPACT ENews
September 30, 2012
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Greetings!
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Did you miss an issue of the MPACT ENews? Delete it by mistake? Wish you could find a past article? Well you can! To view current and past issues of the MPACT ENews visit our website at http://ptimpact.org/News.aspx |
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Online Trainings offered through MPACT
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MPACT has just added another online training to our resources, Extended School Year is now available along with:
- Special Education: What I Need to Know
- IDEA Transition Requirements
- Transition to Post Secondary Experiences (Part 1 & 2)
- Connecting Goals to Coordinated Activities and Services for Transition
- Transition Resources - Disability Disclosure
- Soft Skills
You can access them by going to our Training page and clicking on Online Training, or CLICK HERE .
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MPACT Parent Mentor Program
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MPACT Parent Mentors are available to offer support and guidance to parents of children with disabilities throughout the IEP process. Parent Mentors are volunteers who receive 24 hours of initial training, ongoing monthly training, and technical assistance from MPACT staff with regard to special education law, the IEP process, conflict resolution, and effective communication. Their goal is to help parents build a collaborative partnership with the school district so their child may receive an appropriate education. To view the list of current MPACT Parent Mentors, go to http://ptimpact.org/Volunteer/MentorList.aspx.
If your school district has had a MPACT Parent Mentor in attendance at an IEP meeting, please take a moment to complete a brief online survey located at http://ptimpact.org/Surveys.aspx if you have not already done so. A separate survey should be completed for each mentor who has provided services to parents in your district. These surveys assist MPACT and DESE with identifying and addressing areas of success and improvement with the Parent Mentor Program.
For more information about MPACT or if you have questions regarding the status of a Parent Mentor, please contact MPACT by telephone at (800) 743-7634 or by e-mail at info@ptimpact.org. You can also view the MPACT website at http://www.ptimpact.org.
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4th Annual MPACT Tools for Life Summit - Online Registration Available
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October 9, 2012 at the Truman Office Building in Jefferson City, MO.
Registration will begin at 9am, Session and Keynote Speaker 10am-4pm. Lunch will be provided.
The Summit is a one-day learning experience designed for students who have disabilities, special education transition personnel and student teams, family members, case managers, VR counselors, and Centers for Independent Living personnel. Summit sessions are focused on the preparation of youth for transition to post-secondary education, employment, independent living and community experiences.
Key Note Speaker: Tori Saylor
If you or anyone you know has AS, Tori's message will leave you curious, motivated, and with a heightened awareness. Just when you think that you know everything there is to know about the Autism Spectrum, what you learn may surprise you.
Topics to be covered include:
- Student-led IEPs
- Going to College
- Independent Living
- Assistive Technology
- Soft Skills, and much more!
For session information and online registration CLICK HERE.
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Partners in Policymaking Application
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Partners in Policymaking (Partners) is an innovative national model of leadership training designed for adults with developmental disabilities and parents of young children with developmental disabilities. The program teaches leadership skills and the process of developing positive partnerships with elected officials, school personnel and other individuals who make policy decisions about services that you and/or your family use.
Partners is about systems change -- creating, working towards, and achieving a vision of shared values about people with disabilities. It is based on the belief that the most effective and enduring public policy decisions are made by the people who need and use services in partnership with elected officials and other policymakers. It is about becoming confident in oneself, competent in knowledge and information received, and comfortable in sharing the life experiences and expertise one brings to the program.
2013 Partners Application
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REVISIONS to Special Education Compliance Program Review Standards and Indicators Manual
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Revisions have been made to the Standards and Indicators Manual found on the Special Education Compliance webpage http://dese.mo.gov/se/compliance/StandardsManual/index.html. A list of those revisions and the reasons for them may be found at that site. Please review these revisions and update your agency's practices and procedures to reflect these changes.
If you have questions or concerns about this document, please do not hesitate to call the Compliance Section at 573-751-0699.
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Special Education/Transition from First Steps to ECSE
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If you have questions you would like to submit prior to the webinar, please submit them to: sefirststeps@dese.mo.gov (indicate "Transition First Steps to ECSE Webinar" in the subject line). We will respond to these questions and others that are received during the webinar as long as time allows and will post the questions and answers on our website.
To participate in this webinar, go to http://dese.mo.gov/webinar/Webinar-10-09-12-SE.htm.
The webinar will be recorded and posted under the Webinars - Recorded button at http://dese.mo.gov/webinar/.
If you need an accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in this webinar, please call 573-751-5739 at least 48 hours in advance of the webinar to discuss the accommodation.
We hope you will be able to join us for all or part of this webinar.
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InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning
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Being able to focus, hold and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having a sophisticated air traffic control system to manage information at a busy airport. In the brain, this mechanism is called executive function and self-regulation, a group of skills that, with the right formative experiences, begin to develop in early childhood and continue to improve through the early adult years. A new evidence base has identified these skills as essential for school achievement, success in work, and healthy lives. This two-page summary-part of the InBrief series-outlines how these lifelong skills develop, what can disrupt their development, and how supporting them pays off in school and life.
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Make it orange and make it end! Unite against bullying!
Sponsored by PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
What are your true colors when it comes to bullying? If you care about students who are bullied and want bullying to end, make your color ORANGE on Unity Day, Wednesday, Oct. 10. That's the day everyone can link together-in schools, communities and online-and send one large, ORANGE message of support to students who have experienced bullying. For more information CLICK HERE.
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Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
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Notification of Final School and District/LEA Improvement Status and Required Action
2011 Final calculations and improvement statuses, as well as required actions for school(s) and district/LEA, are provided on the AYP grids posted on the Department's website. The AYP grids may be accessed in the Missouri Comprehensive Data System (MCDS) Portal.
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Free MPACT Trainings
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MPACT trainings are provided free of charge to parents of children with disabilities. To sign up for an upcoming training, follow the links below, then click on the 'SIGNUP' button located next to the training name. Fill in your name, email address, phone number, the name ofthe training you wish to attend and the date it is being offered.
While registering for a training is not mandatory it does ensure that the trainer has an adequate amount of handouts. This also allows MPACT to contact you should a training need to be cancelled or rescheduled. To view a comprehensive list of all trainings provided by MPACT go to http://ptimpact.org/Training/Training.aspx.
Please be sure to double check the website training pages for any updates or changes to trainings offered.
Steps to Success Series:
Effectively Communicating Your Child's Needs 10/11/12 St. Louis
Understand the IFSP Process
Understanding the IEP Process
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Question? Comments? Suggestions? Send them to info@ptimpact.org or
contact the MPACT State Office at 1-800-743-7634. |
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