Encouraging, Educating & Empowering
for 40 years
Establishing Healthy Parent-Teacher Relationships for Early Learning Success
Positive connections between parents and teachers have been shown to improve children’s academic achievement, social competencies and emotional well-being. When parents and teachers work as partners, children do better in school and at home. These partnerships are most powerful when they include these three main components, represented as the “3 C’s”: communication, consistency and collaboration.
The Kansas 25% Rule: Placement and Least Restrictive Environment
Check out our new resource for parents, education advocates and other legal decision makers. In this video, you will learn more about the Kansas special education 25% rule, placement decisions and least restrictive environment.
Need Assistance? Contact one of our Family Resource Specialists
email or (785) 233-4777.
10 Self-Advocacy Tips for Young People with Disabilities
Video
Self-advocacy is one of the most important skills a young person with a disability can have. Learning to apply self-advocacy in IEP settings helps prepare youth to advocate for themselves in other settings as well. This video from INCLUDEnyc offers 10 tips for self-advocacy for young people with disabilities presented by young people with disabilities. 
September 17, 2022 - Overland Park (in-person)
Session Spotlight

Adding to Your Toolbox: Resources to Support Child/Youth and Caregiver Well-Being - In this session, participants will learn about the role of co-regulation in relationships and identify individual well-being practices that enable one to engage with children/youth and adults more effectively. Resources and tools to support individual implementation of well-being practices will be shared.
A limited number of parent scholarships are available. For more information, call (785) 233-4777 or email. 

Christin Sheldon, LMSW, State Trainer with KSDE TASN School Mental Health Initiative
Additional Resources
Upcoming Events
Events Calendar (no events will be recorded)

  • August 6 & 12
  • August 13 - Pittsburg
  • August 27 - Hays
Together We Can Learn Conference (in-person) - $35 per person
  • September 17 - Overland Park
Empowering Families Series (hybrid - in-person - Ft. Leavenworth & virtual)
  • August 18 - Special Education – Parents Rights & Responsibilities 
  • September 15 - Let’s Talk IEPs 
  • October 20 - Transition to Adulthood: Raising Expectations Through Person-Centered Planning and Understanding Your Rights  
  • November 17 - Self-determination and the IEP 
  • December 15 - Supported Decision Making 
Education Advocate Training (in-person)

Save This Date (more information coming soon)
Parent Leadership Conference (in-person)
  • November 4-5 - Topeka 
Event Spotlight
SHIFT - Transition to Adulthood
Saturday, August 27, 2022 - Hays
(in-person only)
Families and transition age youth are invited to join we explore person-centered planning and learn about the transition process, Vocational Rehabilitation services, Independent Living Centers, Medicaid waivers and so much more. Families and youth will leave with a plan outlining next steps for their transition from high school to adult life. Register
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Small Steps Make a Big Difference!

We love what we do! We aim to encourage, educate, and empower families as we assist parents and their sons and daughters who have disabilities and/or special health care needs. We are lucky to have a team of supportive backers that help us continue this important work! Would you consider supporting our mission?

We are hoping for 1,000 people to give just $10 that will go towards our work of assisting families. Small steps make a big difference! To learn more and to donate, click here.
If you need to reach us:
Call: 785-233-4777 or 316-945-7747, or email: contactus@familiestogetherinc.org.
"I appreciate you being there. It helped tremendously! We just never had any guidance in that area before."
~ Kansas parent
Who We Are

Families Together, Inc. is the Parent Training and Information (PTI) and Family-to-Family Health Information Center (F2F HIC) for Kansas families which include a child with an exceptionality and/or special healthcare needs.
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