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Join us for the Tools for Life Opportunities One-day event empowering students with unique abilities. Youth, parents, educators, and professionals will come together to collaborate and explore essential topics like education, employment, independent living, and community involvement.
- Parents: Discover resources, and strategies to support your child’s transition to adulthood.
- Youth: Engage in sessions to build skills and confidence for success in education, work, and independent living.
- Educators & Professionals: Gain strategies to guide students and families, while networking with experts and organizations dedicated to youth development.
Register by clicking the flyer below
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Parent Participation
We believe that a child's best advocate is their parent! This is why it is so important for parents to participate in their child's IEP meeting. Even IDEA includes the wording that schools "...shall take steps to ensure that one or both of the parents of a child with a disability are present at each IEP meeting..."
To learn more about parent participation at IEP meetings, click HERE
Special Education Laws and Regulations
To access the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Federal Regulations, Missouri State Plan for Special Education, Procedural Safeguards, Parent's Bill of Rights, and more. Click HERE
| | MPACT videos and fact sheets are available to help you learn more about the IEP components and evaluation process. Click HERE for access to the fact sheets or HERE for the IEP Components video. | | Supported Decision Making | | Supported Decision-Making is just a fancy way of describing how we all make choices. We all need help making decisions, every single day. The National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making (NRC-SDM) helps people with disabilities find information on Supported Decision-Making, connects them with people and organizations that may be able to help, and answers their questions. Check out resources from the NRC-SDM . | | Missouri Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP) | | |
The Missouri Special Education Advisory Panel's (SEAP) purpose is to provide policy guidance on special education and related services and to carry out those specific and general functions set forth in state statutes.
The panel shall:
- Advise the State Education Agency (SEA) of unmet needs within the State in the education of children with disabilities.
- Comment publicly on any rules or regulations proposed by the state regarding the education of children with disabilities.
- Advise the SEA in developing evaluations and reporting on data to the US Office of Education under Section 618 of the Act.
- Advise the SEA in developing corrective action plans to address findings identified in Federal monitoring reports under Part B of the Act; and
- Advise the SEA in developing and implementing policies relating to the coordination of services for children with disabilities.
- Advise on the education of eligible students with disabilities who have been convicted as adults and incarcerated in adult prisons.
To learn more about SEAP click on Becoming a SEAP Member Q&A
| | Sesame Street for Militiary Families | | Sesame Street for Military Families is a free website where families can find information and multimedia resources on the topics of military deployments, multiple deployments, homecomings, injuries, grief, and self-expression. Click Supporting Military Families page here. | | Media Guidelines for Kids of All Ages | | Parents and caretakers used to just worry about kids watching too much TV or playing too many video games. We still worry about those things, but now the screen time list has gotten much longer. Phones, tablets, apps, social media, texting — they all can captivate kids (and adults) starting at a very young age. What’s a parent to do? Learn from the Child Mind Institute. | | The Art of the Military Child | | |
The MCEC call for the Arts is open! Invite military-connected students worldwide — from every branch of the military and all grades (PreK–12) — to share their unique perspectives through diverse forms of creativity, including photography, music, writing, video, and more.
Why Enter?
- Inspire the World: Illuminate what it means to be a military-connected child through art.
- Win Prizes: Gift card awards and national recognition await our winners.
- Shine Brightly: Selected artists will be honored at the MCEC Global Training Summit in Washington, DC this July!
How to Enter:Submissions are open now through April 30, 2025. Encourage your students or children to dream big and create boldly! Enter HERE
| | McKinney-Vento Homeless Act | |
The McKinney-Vento Act ensures that children and youth experiencing homelessness can enroll in and attend school without barriers.
MPACT offers FREE training on the McKinney Vento Act.
To schedule a training opportunity click HERE
| | Early Childhood Resources | | Responding to Challenging Behavior in Caring Ways | | |
Erica Key, Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Learning Seeds, shares in an in-depth conversation with friends at Sesame Street on how to explore effective strategies to support young children facing emotional challenges.
Click on the VIDEO to watch.
| | | MO Youth Leadership Forum | | |
The Missouri Youth Leadership Forum is a FREE five-day, four-night leadership training and career awareness program for high school students with disabilities.
It provides training in leadership, self-advocacy skills, and career awareness
Download 2025 MO-YLF Flyer
Download 2025 MO-YLF FAQ Sheet
| | | Check out MPACT's resources for families and professionals. | | |
Upcoming MPACT Webinars
click on the links below to register
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The Art of Effective Advocacy
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, @ 4pm-6 pm
Disagreement Resolution
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 10am-12pm
Kansas City Public Library: Waldo Branch
201 East 75th St Room B
Kansas City, MO 64114
| | View all upcoming MPACT trainings HERE. | | |
All MPACT trainings are free of charge! If you would like to schedule any MPACT training in your area or for your organization
please click on the link HERE.
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