Back to School Fundriser

 

As school starts back our advocates are actively brushing up on special education policy both federal ( IDEA) and State of Indiana ( Article 7).  We know that families will be having questions and concerns within our monitoring area and we offer no-cost advocate assistance as they are available.  

Back to school also marks our need to get ready for our last family activities of 2021 along with  our Monthly Family Activities we are working on two more special activities. Bringing back To Cute Too Spoke our sensory friendly halloween activity and for our fourth consecutive year Sensory Santa in early December. These activities are made possible by our community partners and by community members that help with donations.  

This year we are setting a goal of raising $4,000 by the end of november to help ensure we meet expected costs of the activities and to help have a start on our program budget for 2022. This will allow us to hit the ground running with activities and increase our community outreach in 2022. 

Our goal for the August 14ths Monthly Family Activity is to have raised $250. If we can meet this goal Patrick our board president and lead advocate will take a cake to the face at the August Family Activity and  post the video on our facebook page.

Donate online at: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/3998069 

Cancled August Family Activity

 

Our June Activity is in the books.

 

Our June Activity is in the books and we are starting to work on planning for our July Activity. The July Activity will be the last Saturday in July ( July 31st) We will be announcing the location and time in the next few days once we are sure we can use the location.

We would like to give a special thank you to: Old National Bank, Walmart Paoli, Amazon SDF8, Paoli Friends Church, River's Edge Fellowship Church and community members for their support and help in making activities like this possible in our area.

If you would like to learn of way to help please visit: https://www.ourcia.org/p/donations.html

Join us at Spring Mill

 Happy Friday Families.

Next Saturday ( June 26th) we will be having our June Activity at Spring Mill State Park for families caring for child with a disabilites and/or special needs. We will be having some snacks and drinks along with activites for families from 12:00 till 5:00 in the Oak Ridge Shelter House.

We do ask that families sign up to help us in planning for how many are coming. You can Sign-up at: https://forms.gle/aL9qeAPu37hpZGwYA

June Families Activity

 

Activity for families caring for children with Special Needs and/or Disabilities.

Our June activity will be at spring mill state park.

We will have the Oak Ridge Shelter house for the day.

This will be June 26th starting at 12

we will have activities, snacks and drinks through out the day for families.

We do ask that families please RSVP to help us plan for food and activities. RSVP at: https://forms.gle/f3gATrZWmEga1Hzb8

Cost: State Park Gate Fee ( $7 In-State)

(This is also the limestone weekend at the park and as soon as we can get a list of park activities we will share them )

A Special Thank You to Our Community Partners that help make activities possible:

Paoli Walmart, Amazon, Paoli Friends Meeting, River's Edge Fellowship Church

and Community Supporters.

Open House Meeting

Mark your calanders. 

We are planning a Open House meeting for families this saturday from 5pm - 8pm at Paoli Friends Meeting lower level.   

We are planning on doing bingo, having a musical sensory space set up and snacks.  

https://fb.me/e/yCZvP7LS 

If you have any questions please contact Patrick at 812-654-9174 or email PatrickU@ourcia.org 

Do you know about Least Restrictive Environment?

 Least Restrictive Environment is a key stone part of 

Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).

Find Indiana Article 7 Here LRE starts on page 85 ( Page number on bottom of  the pages or 91 in PDF reader) 

IDEA Section 300.114 300.114 LRE requirements.

Sec. 300.114 LRE requirements

(a) General.

(1) Except as provided in §300.324(d)(2) (regarding children with disabilities in adult prisons), the State must have in effect policies and procedures to ensure that public agencies in the State meet the LRE requirements of this section and §§300.115 through 300.120.

(2) Each public agency must ensure that—

(i) To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled; and

(ii) Special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.

(b) Additional requirement—State funding mechanism—

(1) General.

(i) A State funding mechanism must not result in placements that violate the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section; and

(ii) A State must not use a funding mechanism by which the State distributes funds on the basis of the type of setting in which a child is served that will result in the failure to provide a child with a disability FAPE according to the unique needs of the child, as described in the child’s IEP.

(2) Assurance. If the State does not have policies and procedures to ensure compliance with paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the State must provide the Secretary an assurance that the State will revise the funding mechanism as soon as feasible to ensure that the mechanism does not result in placements that violate that paragraph.

Indiana Article 7 as it is written for LRE

( We are just fellow parents sharing information to help other families advocate for their children with special needs.  This is not legal advise and we are not lawyers) 

Thank you Amazon

 We would like to extend a hugh thank you to Amazon Fulfillment Center SDF8 for their donations today. This will be a big help with our Sensory Friendly Activies for children with special needs / disabilities and their families.

Community support is critical in helping make activities possible. 

If you would like to help please visit: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/3998069