Main Library
This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.
DC - OSSE Dispute Resolution Processes Parent Training
IL - Stakeholder Meeting PowerPoint
IL - Webinar - How IEP Facilitation Can Guide the Process
PEAK - Dispute Resolution 101
PEAK - Utilizing Conflict to Build Trust in the IEP Process (two-part webinar)
Perfect Together: Aligning and Leveraging State Education Agencies and Parent Centers in Shared Work
Perfect Together: Aligning and Leveraging State Education Agencies and Parent Centers in Shared Work
Video of Perfect Together: Aligning and Leveraging State Education Agencies and Parent Cent This webinar focuses on practical, implementable strategies leading to effective and sustained collaboration between Parent Centers and State Education Agencies. The presenters provide examples of practices across the Collaboration Continuum that have led to successful, authentic engagement. Characteristics of a partnership that has continued over time, survived changes in personnel, and endured across short and long-term initiatives, are described. Presenters: Helen W. Post is the Executive Director...
Colorado Department of Education and PEAK This Voices from the Field interview series features select OSEP federally-funded parent centers and state education agencies who have well-established and high-functioning collaborative relationships. In October of 2021, CADRE staff interviewed leaders from the Colorado Department of Education (Mary Ann Fleury, Ph.D.) and PEAK (Michele Williers and Ann Wilson) to learn more about what makes their partnership so effective. This hour-long interview provides viewers with tips and takeaways that may help others improve their own relationships and...
The South Dakota Navigator Program is a new and innovative effort in this rural/frontier state that includes a Native American population of approximately 8%. The focus is on providing assistance in communication facilitation and early dispute resolution to both parents and schools, regarding students ages birth to 21. It is funded by the state Office of Special Education Programs and managed by the state's only Parent Training and Information Center. The partnership of the South Dakota Parent Connection and SD-OSEP models the relationship that we want to nurture in individual situations. The...