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Causes: Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Crime & Law, Disabilities, Disabled Persons Rights, Education, Unknown, Youth Violence Prevention
Mission: Advocates for justice and education seeks to empower families, youth
Programs: The parent training and information center is a comprehensive resource library and training center. The center offers parents information on the laws of special education, education, specific disabilities, the latest research on treatment and interventions, and adaptive technology. This resource center is especially critical to our work, as it is accessible to families that traditionally would not have had access to this information. Aje reached 1,789 parents through individual assistance, support at meetings and trainings and trained 908 professionals on special education related topics.
aje provides legal services to families in the area of special education, school discipline and school push-out issues. Legal services is provided in the form of advice and counsel, brief services and extended representation. Aje provided legal services to 298 individuals involving education matters. Specifically, aje provided advice and counsel, brief services or extended representation to 102 individuals in school discipline matters and trained 60 parents and 52 professionals on legal rights i
the family-to-family program through the d. C. Health information center (dc hic) provides support, information, resources, and training to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals that serve them. Aje trained 75 families on health care related topics and provided 107 families with emotional support and linkages to community-based services for children and youth with special health care needs. There were 137 families who participated in ajes monthly supp
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