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Family to Family Network and Helpful Interventions Working Together
Training Events Scheduled
Family to Family to Family Network is pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with Helpful Interventions of Houston on four educational events during the 2003/2004 school year. Family to Family to Family Network and Helpful Interventions have a long standing friendship and are pleased to be working together towards our common goal of supporting families and children.
Helpful Interventions is an educational advocacy service for children with special needs. The program was born to fill a much-needed role of assisting parents of children with special needs in accessing appropriate educational and social services. Helpful Interventions serves families and professionals in The Fifth Ward of Houston and neighboring communities.
Jerrilyn Hayes founded Helpful Interventions in 1997. Jerrilyn serves as the Program Director and is an active advocate in her community. She received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston, has completed graduate courses in educational psychology, and studied advocacy, case management and volunteer administration. She has over eight years of professional experience as a social services case manager, advocate, and mediator in the Houston area. In 2001, the Houston ISD Council for Exceptional Children recognized Jerrilyn for Outstanding Service to Individuals with Disabilities.
Eve Cugini of Family to Family Network and Jerrilyn Hayes met and formed a friendship in 1995 when Jerrilyn was working as a Case Manager with MHMRA. Eve worked with her to train her co-workers on educational rights and responsibilities so that they could most effectively serve the children and families they were supporting. Eve and Jerrilyn continue to find ways to work together serving families of children with disabilities today.
Family to Family Network and Helpful Interventions will offer the following workshops at Helpful Interventions in the2003/2004 school year:
September 13, 2003: 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Make a Student Introduction Portfolio
Materials will be provided. Bring photos or mementos of your children to include in the portfolio.November 12, 2003 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
March 13, 2004 9:00 a.m. until noon Getting Organized for Spring ARDS
April 7, 2004 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
All workshops are free of charge and funded through grants from The Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities and The Houston Endowment.Helpful Interventions offices in the Phoenix Outreach Youth Center located at 2606 Gregg Street, Houston, TX 77026
Contact Helpful Interventions at 281-272-2206 or helpfulinterventions@yahoo.com.
Helpful Interventions offers the following services:
• Advocacy TRAINING
• Parent Training
• Professional Education
Wednesday, February 11 (evening) through Saturday, February 14th (noon), 2004
$165 Professional and $40 Parent/Para-professional/Student
Renaissance Austin Hotel
$155/night room rates at the Renaissance
Registration materials will be available soon!
Family to Family Network adds link to Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
Founded in 1949, HAM-TMC Library is a non-profit organization that serves the Texas Medical Center and receives support from some 16 TMC health-science institutions.
HAM-TMC Library is also the Regional Medical Library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, with responsibility for the library needs of health professionals in the 5 state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. The HAM-TMC Library is open to all.
Check out the HAM-TMC for a wealth of information about available resources concerning the healthcare needs of children and families
First Things First: Facing Our Past, Embracing Our Future
Join nationally-known Partners in Policymaking presenters Colleen Wieck and Kathie Snow as we trace historical attitudes and treatment of people with disabilities, note their parallels with today, and seek new ways of thinking that challenge conventional wisdom…but make perfect sense.
Family to Family Network, the Partners in Policymaking program and The Texas Center for Disability Studies will break new ground August 21 as we co-host the first-ever Partners in Policymaking video-teleconference!
The training will be offered in two locations, Houston (Omni Houston Hotel Westside, 13210 Katy Freeway) and Austin (The University of Texas MCC Auditorium 3925 W. Braker Ln), August 21, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. with a 1 hour lunch break (on your own).
There is no charge for the training. For those who’ve always heard about the first weekend of the Partners in Policymaking training, here’s your chance to experience that training for yourself. We hope to see you there! Call F2F at 713-466-6304 for more information. Click here to REGISTER!
