School’s out, but we are hard at work preparing for Year Two of our ending the school to prison pipeline project in partnership with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities.  That’s right!  We have been given the green light to move forward to the training phase of this coalition-building effort.

The second activity of this project is training and technical assistance. The training curriculum will include steps on how to be an effective advocate; local school policy; federal and state education policies and laws; and the lived experiences of students and parents.  The training and technical assistance will be designed to increase participants’ capacity to become effective advocates for their students and families within the public school systems, particularly, within the DeKalb and Gwinnett systems.

As promised, we will follow up with you about your desire to continue to be a part of this community-based effort to build an effective coalition to promote better outcomes for those students most affected by the school to prison pipeline.  Within the next two weeks, we will send out more information regarding the training sessions and how you can enroll in the training program.

We are excited about this opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our students.  Thank you for your continued interest, support and participation.