Week 1 – April 5th, 2022 Theme: The Intersection of Disability, Race and Special Education

“Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s…identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.” Dr. Seena Skelton is the Director of the Midwestern & Plains Equity Assistance Center and in this video, she discusses the Intersection of Disability, Race and Special Education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHwOz-0iq_I

Week 2 – April 12th, 2022: Theme: How Immigrant Families Navigate Trauma

Trauma impacts immigrant families. Check out this video as Dr. Maria Elena Perez, SSCHC helps us understand How Immigrant Families Navigate Trauma, how trauma impacts children and working effectively with immigrant families in light of trauma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FVQ4uH5m4

Week 3 – April 19th, 2022 Theme: Culturally Tailoring Parent Interventions

Do you and your PTI provide services the same to everyone or are you in the practice of tailoring your interventions based on the individual experiences of those you serve? Dr. Sandra Magaña from the University of Texas-Austin helps us understand modes of cultural adaptation based on surface level adaptation and deeper structural approaches to Culturally Tailoring Parent Interventions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhU7Pme1FiI

Week 4 – April 26th, 2022 Theme: Access to Resources for Serving Multicultural and Multilingual Families

If you had planned on watching any of the videos distributed this month from the 2021 Multicultural-Multilingual Institute hosted by WI FACETS, you have another chance to access all the materials. Please visit the Region C Resources page and click on “Serving Multicultural and Multilingual Families” to find links to all the videos and handouts in the series. https://regioncptac.org/content/resources