Become the advocate your child needs
When you develop effective advocacy skills, everything shifts—fewer sleepless nights wondering if you're doing enough, more confidence in conversations with your child's team, and meaningful progress toward your child's goals.
Our approach draws from research on parent advocacy in special education. You'll learn communication strategies that help school teams understand your child's needs and work collaboratively to address them effectively.
Research on special education and parent advocacy identified one of four approaches to advocacy.
Intuitive Advocate
Disability Expert
Strategist
Change Agent
Stop feeling powerless in a system that’s supposed to work for your family.
Transform your relationship with your child's school from frustration to results. Let's explore your current situation and map out a path that develops your advocacy skills and supports your child's thriving.
What people are saying.
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“Our case manager was not seeing the problems we were seeing.”
Working with Cherylynne, before, during, and after the IEP team meeting, I was able to get the principal to call for data collection and get the case manager and other teachers to come up with ideas to move things forward and support my student, to reduce the stresses that were triggering my middle schooler.
— R., parent of a NE Seattle student
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"The school gave a day's notice for a placement change"
I responded by calling for an IEP team meeting. The last-minute substitution of an administrator who knew nothing about our student nearly sent me over the edge. It was a relief to know Cherylynne was taking notes to capture the whole thing. Those notes helped with our due process case.
- Sara E., parent of a Seattle high schooler