Parent Resource Center Events & Workshops

Target Audience: Grades Pre-K–8 Families

Families are essential partners in helping students with disabilities develop strong literacy skills. This session will focus on easy-to-implement strategies that parents and caregivers can use at home to support reading growth.

You will learn:

• How to make reading engaging and accessible for students with diverse needs.
• Activities that reinforce phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension.
• Tips for using everyday routines and materials to build literacy skills.
• Guidance on leveraging assistive tools and collaborating with your child’s school team.

Join us to discover practical, family-friendly approaches that empower your child to thrive as a reader!

All requests for interpretation are due by October 11, 2026.

Target Audience: Grades Pre-K–6 Families

Learn how to help your child become a confident reader by fostering a growth mindset, celebrating their strengths, and building student self-advocacy skills. Parents will gain practical strategies to encourage resilience, confidence, and independence while supporting reading success at home and school.

All requests for interpretation are due by October 19, 2026.

Target Audience: Grades K–12 Families

Every child has a unique learning profile that influences how they learn, communicate, and interact with the world. In this introductory session, families will learn how proactive, evidence-based strategies can support learning, foster independence, and promote positive behavior at home and in the community.

All requests for interpretation are due by October 25, 2026.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

Discover simple communication strategies that reduce power struggles and encourage cooperation, connection, and mutual respect at home.

• Learn the Power of Attention and the Skill of Assertiveness to guide behavior.
• Discover how to give directions that reduce power struggles at home.
• Boost cooperation and connection with practical, hands-on strategies.

All requests for interpretation are due by November 5, 2026.

Target Audience: Middle and High School Families

Turning 18 is a big deal. An 18-year-old is legally considered an adult in Virginia and can make their own legal, financial, medical, and educational decisions. For some individuals with disabilities, this will not be an issue. Others may need support. This workshop will share basic information about things that need to be considered as your loved one turns 18.

All requests for interpretation are due by November 15, 2026.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

Explore practical ways to strengthen your relationship with your child and create a home where every family member feels valued, connected, and safe.

• Strengthen your bond with your child through love, listening, and presence.
• Use Conscious Discipline tools to build self-esteem and encourage cooperation.
• Foster a family culture rooted in trust, shared values, and emotional safety.

All requests for interpretation are due by December 3, 2026.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

Learn how offering meaningful choices can build independence, responsibility, and confidence while reducing daily conflicts.

• Explore how offering choices shifts the dynamic from compliance to cooperation.
• Learn how honoring your child’s ability to choose fosters independence, accountability, and self-regulation.
• Learn to offer limited, meaningful choices that guide behavior while preserving the child’s sense of control.

All requests for interpretation are due by January 7, 2027.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

• Learn how accepting a child’s emotions and behaviors creates space for connection and growth.
• Explore how empathic responses help children name and regulate their emotions.
• Learn to honor their child’s unique temperament, developmental stage, and emotional needs.

All requests for interpretation are due by February 4, 2027.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

• Strengthen your bond with your child through love, listening, and presence.
• Explore how unconditional love creates emotional safety, which is essential for learning and behavior change.
• Be encouraged to use language that reflects belief in the child’s goodness, promoting self-worth and cooperation.

All requests for interpretation are due by March 4, 2027.

Target Audience: Preschool Families

• Learn to shift from reactive to intentional responses.
• Learn to use consequences that occur naturally and those that you impose to teach responsibility.
• Focus on maintaining firm boundaries with kindness, using consequences as learning tools.

All requests for interpretation are due by April 8, 2027.