1. Statewide Parent Advocacy Network
SPAN Awareness
SPAN
35 Halsey Street
Newark, NJ 07102
SPAN
Empowered Parents:
Educated, Engaged, Effective!
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network

2. SPAN’S MISSION
To empower families & inform & involve professionals & others interested in the healthy development & education of children, to enable them to become fully participating & contributing members of our communities & society.

3. SPAN’S FOCUS
SPAN’s foremost commitment is to children with the greatest need due to disability; poverty; discrimination based on race, sex, language, or immigrant status; geographic location; or family or other special circumstances

4. SPAN’S ADVOCACY AREAS Early Intervention & Early Childhood Education
Health & Mental Health
Human Services
Children & families

5. SPAN ACTIVITIES Information Training Technical Assistance Support
Leadership Development
Public Policy Advocacy

6. INFORMATION E-newsletter Website www.spanadvocacy.org List serve
Fact sheets & information packets
Basic Rights Manual
CDs (Health Advocacy, Inclusive Child Care, IEP, Transition)

7. INFORMATION Laws and regulations Research-based best practices
Advocacy strategies
Collaboration & partnership skills

8. TRAINING
County-based workshops (Basic Rights, Health Advocacy, Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, IEP)
Lunchtime teleconferences
Regional trainings
Annual SPAN Conference
Annual Inclusive Child Care/ Health in Child Care Conference
Mini-conferences
(Inclusion, Transition to Adult Life)

9. COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING
SPAN Resource Parent & Health Resource Parent Trainings
Surrogate Parent
Parent Leadership Development Institute
Parent to Parent Orientations
Parents Engaged in Public Policy
Parent Support Group Training

10. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Creating Family Friendly Schools
Parent-Educator Collaboration
Multiple Intelligences
Positive Behavior Supports

11. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Telephone: In-person Email
“warm-line” SPAN
In-person
Community Resource Centers
Family Resource Centers

12. Consultation & Technical Assistance
Parent Groups/Organizations
Family Success Centers
Parent Centers in the NJ, NY, CT, MA, PA, RI, NH, VT, & ME

13. SUPPORT NJ Statewide Parent to Parent Support parents
Special Education Parent Support Groups
Disability-specific groups
Bi-lingual Parent Groups
Strengthening Families & Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families & Communities

14. SPAN PROJECTS Parent Training & Information Center (USDOE)
NJ START (NJDOE)
Family WRAP (Wisdom, Resources, Advocacy & Parent to Parent Support) (NJ DHSS):
Project CARE
Parent to Parent
Family Voices

15. SPAN PROJECTS Family to Family Health Information Center (US DHHS)
Integrated Community-Based Systems for Children & Youth with Special Healthcare Needs & Families I, II, & III (US DHHS)
NJ Inclusive Child Care (NJ DHS)
Military Family 360 Support Project (US DHHS ADD)
Super Storm Sandy Resiliency Project
Health & Education Rights of Children with Special Needs in Child Welfare & Juvenile Justice

16. SPAN PROJECTS Transition to Adult Life (IOLTA-NJ Bar Foundation)
Region I Parent Technical Assistance Center (US DOE)
Healthy Adolescent Partnership/ Health & Wellness Initiative (NJ DHSS Child & Adolescent Health)
Transition to Adult Life (IOLTA-NJ Bar Foundation)
Inclusive After School Champions (NJCDD)
Child Care Quality Rating Scale (ACNJ)

17. SPAN IS YOUR ONE STOP RESOURCE FOR INFORMATION & SUPPORT
SPAN empowers families, professionals and
communities interested in the health,
well-being and education of children.

18. Contact SPAN 973-642-8100 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
or SPAN
TRAINING/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Director, Parent/Professional Development
Carolyn Hayer, ext or
PARENT LEADERSHIP
Director, START PROJECT
Dianne Malley or
Facebook:
Twitter: twitter.com/SPANadvocacy
YouTube: youtube.com/SPANadvocacy

19. SPAN Statewide Parent Advocacy Network
35 Halsey Street, 4th Floor
Newark, NJ
Phone:
Toll Free: SPAN
Fax:

20. THANK YOU!
Erin Seigh Transition Coordinator Statewide Parent Advocacy Network 35 Halsey Street, 4th floor Newark, NJ or cell