Federation for Children with Special Needs, Inc.
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Special Education Parent Center
Projects include: Parent Training and Information Center, which under the Individuals with Disability Education Act, provides information, support, technical assistance and workshops to MA families of children with disabilities and the professionals who work with them; Transition/Planning a Life, serves students with disabilities in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, and brings together state and community partners as well as local high schools to improve the post-school outcomes of students with significant disabilities;Community Outreach and Empowerment Project, which seeks to increase assistance and support to families of children with special needs whose ability to access education and healthcare information and services is complicated by race, class, language, and/or poverty; Parent Consultant Training Institute, an eight-week training offering an opportunity for MA parents and professionals to learn more about state and federal Special Education laws and process.
Family Support Center
Projects include: Family TIES of MA, a parent to parent support, information and referral project, funded by the MA Department of Public Health which provides information, referrals, and parent to parent matching to families who have children with special health care needs or disabilities, through six regional Department of Public Health offices; MassCARE, which provides support to women, children, adolescents and young adults infected/affected by HIV/AIDS; Project Launch/ My Child, which provides clinical, diagnostic, prevention and coordination services for children and families living in Boston, with a focus is on early childhood mental health issues; Pathways for Parents, which in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) provides ""peer to peer"" support and advocacy to parents who have a serious mental health challenges and complex DCF cases with child custody concerns.
Health Advocacy Center
Projects include: Mass Family Voices, the MA chapter of a national network speaking on behalf of children with special health care needs, which builds capacity for family partnerships and supports partnership activities between managed care organizations and parents around improved access to services and supports; Family-to-Family Health Information Center, offers health care information and support to families of children with special needs in navigating various systems to enable their children to live in the community and actively participant in decision making; Mass Family Voices collaborates with Massachusetts' Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant partners in developing and enhancing authentic family-professional partnerships through participation in the Children's Health Quality Coalition and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) medical home initiative.
Family and Community Engagement Center
Projects include: Family and Community Engagement Team, offers education improvement services to districts and schools in Massachusetts, partnering with districts and schools to improve student achievement and school performance through strengthening family and community engagement policies, designing strategies for enhanced family and community engagement and implementing activities directly with families, teachers, administrators, community members and other stakeholders; Recruitment Training and Support Center for Special Education Surrogate Parents ensures that students whose parents are unavailable to participate in educational decision making are provided with a ""surrogate parent"" for educational decision making. The Family and Community Engagement Center also provides training and technical assistance on family engagement to school districts as a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education approved Title 1 Support Partner and District/School Assistance Provider.
Parent-Professional Leadership Center
Projects include: the Massachusetts Association of Special Education Parent Advisory Councils, a statewide project which provides information, training, and networking opportunities to special education parent advisory councils; Advancing Parent-Professional Leadership in Education provides a collaborative training model to ensure the participation of parents in systemic efforts to improve educational outcomes for children with disabilities; MASS FOCUS Academy provides professional development, training, technical assistance and knowledge dissemination of evidenced-based practices that improve post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities; The Partnership Project, which is a collaboration with MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and other community partners to expand professional development of educators and develop model sites to support the development of tiered systems of supports that will improve outcomes for all students.
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Federation for Children with Special Needs, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 10/27/2016
Ms. Anne Howard
Fitchburg State
Term: 2016 -
William Henderson
Director Emeritus
Daniel Heffernan
Kotin, Crabtree & Strong
James Whalen
TA Associates Realty
Anne Howard
Fitchburg State College
Joseph Petner
Retired
John Reichenbach
Lessac Technologies
Patricia Schram
Pediatrician
Michael Weiner
Commonwealth Financial Group
Nicole Baumer
Boston Children's Hospital
Philomena Asante
Boston Public Health Commission
Susan Arndt
Community Volunteer
Melanie McLaughlin
Community Volunteer
Teresita Ramos
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Leo Rotman
River Financial Group, LLC