Students will facilitate small group sessions and guide Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) through activities designed to educate them about the special education rights of the children they represent and how to access appropriate services for their child clients. Our presentation and activities also will touch on changes being made in the law and in schools given the current global health crisis. Students will help CASAs make a plan to lobby school staff for the special education services best suited to meet their child clients’ needs.
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.
Project Details
- Project Date
Thursday, October 6
- Project Time
- 6pm-7:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5 hours, including training and self-study
- Training
- Tuesday, October 5, 6:30pm-8:30pm (Zoom link via Canvas)
- Skills used
- Community education/outreach; client interviewing/counseling; legal analysis; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 8
- 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://speak10-6f21.eventbrite.com