1. Self-Advocacy Skill Building
Region 4 Summer Conference
June 24, 2015
Traverse City, Michigan
Lisa Küpper
CPIR’s product development coordinator
Center for Parent Information & Resources

2. “Self-Advocacy Skill Building” is a priority for Parent Centers.
To quote from OSEP’s recent application package
At a minimum, the PTIs must:
(a) increase parents’ capacity to help their children with disabilities improve their early learning, school-aged, and postsecondary outcomes; and
(b) increase youth with disabilities’ capacity to be effective self-advocates.

3. What more is said in the recent RFPs for PTIs?
See the handout for this webinar, online at:
handout-selfadvocacy.pdf

4. For Parent Centers, supporting youth with disabilities in building their self-advocacy skills includes:
Knowing what youth with disabilities need;
Using best practices to provide training and information to youth with disabilities;

5. CPIR’s Priority Page on Self-Advocacy can help!
Knowing what youth with disabilities need;
Using best practices to provide training and information to youth with disabilities;
Knowing current evidence-based education practices and policy initiatives in self-advocacy; and
Working with appropriate partners serving youth with disabilities.
CPIR’s Priority Page on Self-Advocacy can help!

6.
You can find the slides, helpful handouts, and the recording of the CPIR webinar on the webpage we created for this event.

7. What is self-advocacy, and why is it important?
Resources for youth themselves
Fact sheets, toolkits, and training materials on self-advocacy
Resources in the Parent Center network
Resources in other languages

8. Questions? Comments?

9. Thank you very much for coming to this session.
Debra Jennings, Project Director
Myriam Alizo, Project Assistant
Indira Medina, Communication and Dissemination
Lisa Küpper, Product Development
Jan Serak, Senior Advisor