PEAL Trainings

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the importance of relationships and networking during transition.
2. List soft skills they possess and how those skills apply to networking opportunities.
3. Describe strategies for successfully building professional and personal relationships.

Minimum time needed:

1 hr

Target Audience:

• Youth and Young Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify ways that evaluation, IEP and
   progress monitoring can support high
   expectations and access to the general
   education curriculum
2. Discuss the significance of the Endrew F.
   Supreme Court decision
3. List strategies for providing access to and
   learning of grade level content for
   students with complex instructional needs

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Parents will further develop
   communication skills to be heard and
   understood in school settings.
2. Parents will further develop teamwork
   skills in order to create positive change for
   ALL students in school settings.

This is a Families to the MAX Training

Minimum time needed:

1 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. List and define the key principles of IDEA
2. Identify the parts of the IEP and the
   importance of each one
3. Discuss ways that families can provide
   meaningful input throughout the IEP
   process
4. Prepare a “snapshot” of their child to
   provide input during the IEP meeting

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Describe Extended School Year and its
   purpose
2. Identify the factors of eligibility for ESY
3. List the services that can be a part of an
   ESY program

Minimum time needed:

1 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define friendship – what it looks like, feels
   like, and important qualities
2. Identify barriers, challenges, and ways to
   overcome them while making friends
3. Identify places, groups, locations where
   youth might meet and make friends
4. Identify characteristics of healthy and
   unhealthy relationships or friendships
5. Identify how to recognize who is and is
   not a friend

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Youth
• Young Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Review the principles and philosophy regarding the importance of friendship development for people with disabilities
2. Review the design and organization of
   the booklet
3. Identify possible barriers to friendship
   development
4. Review and discuss the 3 Guiding
   Principles used in the development of the
   book
5. Review strategies for active friendship
   facilitation relevant to their role
6. Generate additional strategies across the 6 Elements of friendship development

Minimum time needed:

1 ½-2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Describe ways in which self-awareness, self-esteem, and positive self-talk relate to healthy relationships
2. Identify qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships
3. Identify scenarios as healthy or unhealthy and discuss strategies to improve unhealthy relationships
4. Describe ways to set personal boundaries

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hours

Target Audience:

• Youth
• Young Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. To empower families to create meaningful
   changes for students receiving special
   education services
2. Learn how families have been leaders in
   making change in schools
3. Explore ways to initiate and support
   change in schools
4. List and describe the key steps needed for
   effective change
5. Identify resources to support making
   change

This is a Families to the MAX Training

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify how IDEA supports inclusive
   education
2. Discuss the benefits of inclusive education
3. Explain the importance of Supplementary
   Aids and Services
4. Discuss the importance of presuming
   competence in inclusive education
5. Describe your family’s vision of inclusion
   for your child
6. List the most important things you will
   share with your child’s IEP team at the
   next meeting

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define Speech, Language, and
   Communication
2. Learn the What, Why, and How of
   Communication, including Assistive
   Technology (AT) and Augmentative and
   Alternative Communication (AAC)

This is a Families to the MAX Training

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Consider systems navigation
2. Identify service & funding systems
3. Explore eligibility & unmet needs

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. List the services that PEAL provides
2. Describe how PEAL educates and
   empowers families, professionals, youth,
   and young adults
3. Access PEAL resources

Minimum time needed:

½ -1 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals
• Youth and Young
  Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define “Presuming Competence” within
   the home, school, and community.
2. Describe approaches to build a path of
   high expectations at home, in school with
   peers, and with community members.
3. Identify how presuming competence can
   broaden opportunities in all settings.

This is a Families to the MAX Training

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the rights and Procedural Safeguards under IDEA
2. Increase awareness of dispute resolution
   processes and alternative dispute
   resolution
3. Know where to find information about
   rights regarding school discipline,
   especially suspension and expulsion of
   students with disabilities

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define health literacy
2. Describe importance of health literacy for
   youth
3. List ways to enhance youth health literacy
4. Describe strategies youth can use to self-
   advocate about health literacy

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals
• Youth and Young
  Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify components of self-awareness for
   an individual with a disability
2. Describe the importance of and how to
   self-advocate for their wants and needs
3. Identify ways to effectively communicate
4. Describe how sharing their experience can
   make an impact on others

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals
• Youth and Young
  Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define self-determination
2. Think about a vision for your future
3. Identify ways to put vision into action
4. Create vision statements and vision
   boards
5. Identify ways to stay motivated and
   focused

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals
• Youth and Young
  Adults

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the principles of advocacy
2. Discuss ways to identify and clarify the issue(s)
3. Explain the advocacy process and strategies for educational advocacy
4. Define dispute resolution options

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. List and define the three sections of the transition grid
2. Explain what information should be included in each section of the transition grid
3. Define and provide examples of transition “Goals,” “Activities” and “Services”

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of having a vision
   to guide transition planning
2. Describe the areas to consider when
   transition planning
3. List resources to support successful
   transition outcomes

Minimum time needed:

1 hr or 2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the differences between eligibility
   for special education in Early Intervention
   and School-Age programs
2. Understand options for developing an IEP
   as a child transitions from Early
   Intervention to School-Age
3. Understand the importance of informed decision making in determining
   educational placement

Minimum time needed:

1 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. List and define the key principles of IDEA
2. List important facts about the
   Reevaluation process
3. Identify the parts of the IEP and the
   importance of each one
4. Discuss ways that families can provide
   meaningful input throughout the IEP
   process
5. Prepare a “snapshot” of their child to
   provide input during the IEP meeting

Minimum time needed:

2 hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals

*this training is also available in Spanish

Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:

1. Define self-awareness and describe the
   importance of youth self-awareness
2. Discuss why youth should lead their own
   IEP meeting and the benefits
3. Describe ways that students, families, and
   other adults can prepare for and support
   youth led IEPs
4. Discuss barriers and challenges in youth
   led IEPs and potential solutions

Minimum time needed:

1 ½ hr

Target Audience:

• Families
• Professionals
• Youth and Young
  Adults