Education and Training
Efforts are continually being made to educate the local community as well as our national and global communities. TEF is a part of that education process through community event involvement and workshop training.
It is TEF’s commitment to provide training with the goal of facilitating better integration of those with special needs into our churches, schools and communities. This involves training volunteers, training other organizations, training churches or providing specialized training specific to the needs of families.
Advocacy
The educational landscape in our country is uneven, and often times overly burdensome for those seeking the best educational resources for their special needs children. From Individual Education Plans (IEP) to recurrent paperwork and evaluations, much is tasked to a parent to maintain their child’s services. Many are single parents and are burdened with responsibility already. At times parents are denied their voice for their children.
Providing advocacy resources serves these parents well by providing an additional voice and reinforcement of what their child’s legal and educational rights are. |
