This is a follow up to my previous email concerning the PP v Compton class action lawsuit concerning adverse events and eligibility under the Americans with Disability act. I did a presentation at the Legal Issues in Special Education conference on April 24th. The participants consisted of special education directors, compliance officers and parent advocates The big surprise was that there was huge interest in this issue. It was standing room only in the room. Secondly even though this...

There was a lot of interest in the impact of the Compton lawsuit on trauma-informed education. Given so many requests for the PowerPoint, I thought it would be better if I just attached the presentation to this blog. I love a bunch of eyes looking at things before I deliver them so I would appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on the material. In addition, as mentioned previously, PESI is sponsoring the delivery of a full days worth of trauma-informed training through a video tape...

We have finally completed our trauma informed education seminar. Scheduled for February in Los Angeles, Early March in New York and April in Michigan. We have put together an excellent review of current evidence based approaches, with specific, easy to implement strategies for developing and improving your trauma informed approaches. Hope you can make it!!

  This website has the complaint and, at the top, it lists the lawyers involved and their phone numbers and email addresses.     http://media.wix.com/ugd/29cec...8b5671ce4c8e7137.pdf   I emailed them an encouraging statement...

These resources were provided to teachers with recent immigrant students from Oxford University Press. Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services  (BRYCS) has thousands of resources on refugee and immigrant children and youth in a...

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Does anyone know of a good text to use to support a class for teachers and counselors working in justice settings on trauma informed care?   please email me any titles you might have   rvhull3@hotmail.com