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.
AFC - Advocacy Skills - A Guide to Help You Advocate for Your Child's Educational Rights
Download AFC-1 advocacy_skillsApril2011.pdf (362.35 KB)
APEC - Resolving Disputes in Special Education
ASK - Improving Communication: Tips for Parents and Educators
FFF - Promoting Equity In Education Through Family Engagement (Fact Sheet)
FFF - Promoting Equity In Education Through Family Engagement (Video)
GA - ASPIRE Parent Training Modules
Video of Webinar: Introducing the Part C Dispute Resolution Family Guides About the Webinar: This webinar provides parent centers and families with ideas on how to use these new, family-friendly guides on mediation, due process hearings, and written State complaints designed with the Part C families in mind. This webinar also describes the collaborative process that CADRE used to develop the guides. The new family-friendly guides on special education dispute resolution are now available for download from the CADRE website, in addition to the new Quick Guide to Special Education Dispute...
NH - Developing a Team Approach for Family and Community Connections With Schools
PA - Enhancing Parent Involvement: A Practical Guide for PA Schools Supporting Students with Disabilities
PA-PEAL - Special Education Resources for Families (Rack Card)
PA-PEAL - Special Education Resources for Families (Rack Card)
PACER - Positive Interactions with Diverse Families
Reaching Out to American Indian and Alaska Native Youth with Disabilities
SPAN- Special Education Parent Advisory Groups Guide
Understanding Positions and Interests
UPC Video - Parents Teaching Self-Advocacy Skills: Helping Your Child Toward Self-Determination
Video of Parents Teaching Self-Advocacy Skills: Helping Your Child Toward Self-Determination Do you want to help your child with a disability live an included and productive life? Your son or daughter needs self-determination skills such as making choices, setting goals, and self-advocacy. The Self-Determination video will provide you with a foundation of how to teach these skills to your son or daughter.
UT-8 ParentCenter-District Parent Consultants 1-2013.pdf
Diana Autin is the Executive Co-Director of the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN), NJ’s Parent Training and Information Center. She also co-directs NE-PACT, the Region 1 Parent Technical Assistance Center, providing technical assistance and capacity-building to the federally-funded parent training and information centers and community parent resource centers in the Northeast United States. Clip 1: As you think about stakeholder involvement in decision making, are there particular benefits that you believe come as a result and any advice about how you can most effectively engage diverse...
Jeanne Bowman works part time with Carlo Rossi as an Independent Child Advocate for Social Advocates for Youth in contract with the Sonoma County Special Education Local Plan Area. Formerly, she worked at the IDEA-funded Region 6 Parent Technical Assistance Center for the Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in the western states and Pacific entities. In her more than a decade with Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center, Jeanne was a parent advisor, trainer, Early Start program manager, support group leader, and IEP clinic facilitator. As a member...
Patricia McGinnis holds a degree in education from the University of Minnesota and has over twenty years of teaching experience. She has been the Coordinator of the Minnesota Department of Education's Special Education Mediation Service since 2001, assuring access to the federally required mediation process and Minnesota's facilitated IEP meetings. In addition, she is a statewide trainer of leaders in special education on communication, due process and facilitation of IEP meetings and presents to parents, advocates, the Minnesota's State Bar Association, county social workers, professors,...