educational advocacy

Family Guide to Working with Schools

Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:35 | David's BLOG

With budget cuts, larger class sizes, and more homework, families with kids that need extra help, IEP services can often feel overwhelmed and frustrated. Families Like Ours and Treehouse have joined together to help you with all this and more. Join us for The Parent Institute on Saturday May 14th and learn how you can advocate for your kid(s) without creating an adversarial relationship with the school.

Who should attend? Pre and post adoptive families, foster families, and kinship families.
 
How much does it cost? Nothing! Seats are limited so don't waiting. Through a special grant, we're able to provide this training at no cost to families.

 
You don't want to miss this set of workshops. Space is limited to sign up now.
 
Executive Director
Families Like Ours, Inc

 

School, Home Split

Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:41

Some children with AD can be experts at controlling adults, even those that feel that they cannot be manipulated by a child. During school hours endearing behaviors are typical for the sake of seeking allies and creating a false sense of trust. A child can be pleasant to have in the class, very helpful and appear to be right on target regardless if they are on an IEP or not.

Family Planning Counselling and Referral

Are you thinking about adoption or foster care? Are you unclear if this is right for you? Do you have questions or need to verify answers you have gotten and are not sure what the real answer is? Families Like Ours is your independent advocate regardless of which placement agency, or state program you're working through. We're here to help. We are families-helping-families. We provide a full range of pre and post adoptive and foster care family planning counseling* to help guide you through the process, answer your questions, and provide you with resources and support. There are several options available to you:

  • Attend one of our Adoption 101 workshops (currently only available in WA State)
  • Attend a Families Like Ours information open house, or fair
  • Sign up for our Parenting Tool Box program (see below)
  • Contact us to set up a phone, email or in person meeting

Some of what we can help with includes:

  • Pros and Cons of each type of adoption
  • A description of the process of the home-study
  • A complete list of approved Families Like Ours WA adoption resources
  • An understanding of all the players and their roles
  • A step-by-step plan to help you with your adoption goals
  • Lots of Q&A time
  • Referrals to therapists, doctors, lawyers, youth programs, and GLBT&Q youth and family resources
  • Family and youth advocacy

If you already have children and need skill building help, we have a program for you too. If you live in the state of Washington, we would suggest signing up for our Parenting Tool Box program (see attached PDF). This program includes 8 different active workshops, monthly email support and support work-groups.

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