Bravo, Katherine Hoy, The Legal Aid Society & everyone who helps empower families & students with #disabilities. #KnowYourRights
🏛 There's no "I" in 'Advocacy'! Today I was surrounded by too many pioneering IDD advocates at the *one and only* Maestro's Catering Hall in the Bronx. (I made it, ma!) 🎩Hats off to my co-creators and and co-presenter, attorneys Marie Mombrun and Joel Pietrzak from The Legal Aid Society for your partnership in this bite-size but essential training on the rights of #parents and students with #disabilities during behavioral interventions, suspensions, and MDRs. Too many youth in NYC, and in the Bronx specifically, are subjected to unnecessarily restrictive and at-times prohibited interventions. Know Your Rights! 💐 Special and heartfelt thanks to Edie Weber, Tina Veale, Diane Frazier-Smith, Joanne Siegel and the entire Bronx DD Council and Bronx Family Support Advisory Council for inviting us to present on the theme of advocacy for IDD youth to over 400 attendees at the 36th Annual Family Support Conference! It was a beautiful and inspiring event. Here's to the next 36 years! #KnowYourRights #PassKASSA #Advocacy #IDD #FamilySupport #LadiesInRed #StopTheShock