Students will facilitate small group counseling sessions to guide parents of children with disabilities through conversations about special education law. Training will focus on how to use the clinic intake instrument to gather all relevant information and then assist parents in making a plan for next steps in advocating for their child’s improved services, particularly in the time of COVID. Some families that receive assistance at the SPEAK counseling session will be accepted for special education case work that will continue during the academic year. Students will attend a SPEAK counseling session and, if their case is selected, the option of continuing case work under supervision of clinical faculty. (Additional special education case work opportunities may be available later in the academic year if a SPEAK volunteer chooses not to continue on a case after a counseling session and/or if additional students are needed to staff a case work team.)
Organization
INCLUDE Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
INCLUDE enables students to provide free legal services to persons with disabilities and their families. INCLUDE is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program, in partnership with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.
Project Details
- Project Date
Friday, November 12
- Project Time
- 1pm-3pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5 hours, including training (2 hours clinic, 2 hours synchronous training, 1 hour asynchronous training)
- Training
- Wednesday, November 10, 5pm-7pm
- Skills used
- Community education/outreach; client interviewing/counseling; legal analysis; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Students with a background in teaching are strongly encouraged to volunteer; students with an interest in social justice, education, and/or disability law are strongly encouraged to volunteer
- To Apply
- Register at https://speak11-12f21.eventbrite.com