CORT First Friday Webinar - Back to School Education Law Panel

Description

Intended for a broad range of legal services advocates without education law experience

Invited panelists to include a child psychologist and legal aid specialist education attorney/ advocacy staff. A panel for non-education specialist legal aid staff, featuring Dr. Joseph Scotti, Child Psychologist and Claudia Neely, Licensed Counselor, WHOLE Families West Virginia; Lydia Milnes, Education Law Attorney, Mountain State Justice; Deana Cummings, Parent Coordinator, Legal Aid of West Virginia FAST Education Law Project. Patricia DiFranco, Legal Aid of West Virginia, Education Law Attorney, Moderator.

Topics will include education law issue spotting for all legal services advocates, “red flag” scenarios for identifying families in need of education law services, long term educational impacts on kids impacted by the opioid epidemic and by COVID issues, and resources for getting kids services.