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.
PEAL - The Rights Done Right: The Right to Request a Due Process Hearing
Video of PEATC - Webinar: Coaching Families Through Conflict
PEATC - How to Talk So Schools Will Listen...and Listen So Schools Will Talk
PEATC - Special Education Complaint Toolkit
PEN - Webinar - Alternative Methods to Resolving Disputes
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...
CADRE undertook a qualitative inquiry of special education mediations in two states. In this exploratory research, CADRE's goal was to gain access to, examine, and compare the perspectives of parents, school personnel and mediators on several dimensions of the mediation experience—expectations, the process itself, outcomes, satisfaction with the process and outcomes, and long term outcomes. By identifying themes and patterns within and across cases, CADRE hoped to identify promising areas for future qualitative and quantitative research. A CADRE publication.
PIC - Mediation - Conflict Resolution Options For Parents Who Disagree With Their Child's School
PIC of DE - Special Education Laws, Regulation, Guidance Toolkit
PIC-WY - Keys to Confident & Effective Parent Participation in the Special Education Process
Download PIC-WY-3 Keys_Final2010.pdf (693.96 KB)
PIC-WY - Making an Informed Decision About Your Due Process Rights
- Download PIC-WY-1 FilingAComplaint0112.pdf (240.39 KB)
PIC-WY - Steps for Parents of Children Receiving Suports in Special Education
About the Webinar: This webinar focused on the fundamentals of creating supportive and effective family-practitioner relationships. The group of presenters, representing family, practitioner, and technical assistance perspectives, shared some of the building blocks of relationships, family-centered practices, and examples of exemplary family-practitioner collaboration. Video of Playing Nicely Together: Family-Centered Practices to Help Practitioners and Families Work Together Presenters: Megan Vinh, ECTA Center & DaSy Center Judy Swett, PACER & ECTA Center Amy Whitehorne, CADRE Yvette...
PLUK - Montana Parent's Handbook to Special Education
On September 14, 2015, the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released a policy statement highlighting the importance of making sure that all young children with disabilities have access to inclusive high-quality early childhood programs. The “Policy Statement on Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs,” released jointly by ED and HHS, states that all young children with disabilities should have access to inclusive high-quality early childhood programs, where they are provided with individualized and appropriate support in...