Here are the highlights of our upcoming events and recent activity online. Not everything is included due to timeliness.

If an advertised event already took place, we've left it off.

Did you take our Self-Guided modules this month "Taking a Deep Dive into the IEP"? Do you have additional questions? Then please join us for our Office Hours!

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PBIS Q&A

Idaho Parents Unlimited

November 29, 2023 from 12:30-1:30 PM MST

To access Zoom for this month's Q&A, please register for this month's modules.

Thank you!

Join us in celebrating Allison this week!

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208.342.5884

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National Story Collection for Caregivers and Home and Community Base Supports

Innovative Approach: Asking Caregivers to tell their stories as part of its effort to ensure that caregivers have the resources they and their families need to be healthy, as well as a voice in the policies and practices that affect them, Health Leads is using an innovative approach to gathering data. They are asking caregivers to use an online tool to share a story of what works for them and what would make their experience better. Health Leads then will follow up with a few questions. The tool is anonymous. Read about the tool and see a video on how it works.

In brief:

Bill to Watch: SB 2118. A bill to provide for an emergency increase in federal funding to state Medicaid programs for expenditures on home - and community- based services.

As 2024 nears, Advocates push for caregiving as campaign issue - from disability scoop.

Closed for planning!

Idaho Parents Unlimited will be closed 11/15/23 - 11/17/23 as we plan out 2024. We will be back and returning calls on November 20th.

Idaho Parents Unlimited

Engage + Educate + Bridge + Lead

Facebook and Instagram: /IdahoParentsUnlimited

ipulidaho.org

parents@ipulidaho.org

208.342.5884

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Self-guided Module

Deep Dive into the IEP

Are you ready to decode the IEP document? Our comprehensive training will guide you through the intricacies of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) helping you gain the knowledge and confidence to support your child’s unique Journey

* Early Childhood IEP's

* Standard IEP's

* Transition IEP's

Available now via Self Guided Training

Office Hours Zoom Discussion for this self-guided Module

takes place on November 29th from 12:30 – 1:30 MDT.

Via Zoom

Register here:

https://ipulidaho.org/event-registrations/11-01-2023-self-guided-module-deep-dive-into-the-iep/

Are you familiar with Idaho SESTA and their Quick Guides? Check out this one on Evaluation. Click through or contact IPUL to learn more about how they provide resources for parents - not just educators and administrators!

When completing an evaluation, the Idaho Special Education Manual provides guidance that

“the evaluation of each student with a suspected disability shall be full and individualized and sufficiently comprehensive to identify all of the student’s suspected special education and related services needs whether or not commonly linked to the disability category in which the student may be classified.”

Contact Idaho Parents Unlimited!

The best method to reach us for assistance is through our website:  

https://ipulidaho.org/connect-with-us#contact-us-here . You can also shoot us a question using the abbreviated version of that form at the bottom of every page on our website, although we may need to get more information from you.

We monitor our intake phone line (208-342-5884) during the workday, and will try to respond to any request there within 24 hours. We use an automated intake phone system, so you will be leaving a message. (Please be sure the number you are leaving us can accept text or voice messages.)

For questions that are not about something in our scope of work, you can still leave a phone message as above, send the question to the form on our website, or shoot us an email at parents@ipulidaho.org.

We keep our website updated with new news and events, and maintain a presence on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Programs and services offered by Idaho Parents Unlimited are supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education (H328M200033) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Affordable Care Act Family to Family Health Information Center (H84MC12896), opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions of either department, endorsement is not assumed