ECAC serves as the Regional Parent Technical Assistance Center for Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRC) funded by the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.

As a part of the National Technical Assistance Project for Parent Centers, ECAC provides services to 15 Parent Centers in 8 states and the District of Columbia.

• REGION 2 Technical Assistance Center Services
• What’s Happening in Region 2?
• Find a Parent Center in your area
• Related Links
• Region 2 TA Conference - additional materials - new
  

For more information:
Email: ecacta@ecacmail.org
Or Call: 1-800-962-6817, ext. 38.

REGION 2 Technical Assistance Center Services

• Provides information, resources, and support to the center Directors and staff
• Offers individual and group technical assistance in content areas such as non profit management, effective practices, family center practices, and outreach to underserved communities
• Provides training opportunities designed to provide participants with a Certificate of Non-Profit Management in five years
• Disseminates information through mailings, conference calls, and a newsletter
• Conducts an annual regional conference
  

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What's Happening in Region 2

Check back soon!

Questions?  Contact: Rene Swink, TA Coordinator, at: rswink@ecacmail.org or call 1-800-962-6817, ext. 43. 

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Additional Region 2 Conference materials

• Expanding Your Audience with Low Cost Media - Todd Fisk (pdf of his PowerPoint presentation)

• Sexuality and Children with Disabilities (ppt) - Melissa Hoffmann
• Workbook: Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities (download pdf of workbook written by Florida DD Council, 2005)

• Transition to Adulthood Resources/Links - Catherine Fowler
  • NSTTAC
  • Iowa Transition Assessment
  • Cornell University Assessment Tools
  • PEATC - Next Steps Transition Program
  • Sample Transition IEP (download Word version

• Zero Tolerance for an Old Policy Talking Points (ppt), Alice Averitt, Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho, and Marlene Sallo

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Find a Parent Center in Your Area

To locate the center in your state, please go to the National Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers website for a map. Or use the list below:

• Delaware
  • Parent Information Center of Delaware
    www.picofdel.org
• District of Columbia
  • Advocates for Justice and Education
    www.AJE-DC.org
  • Advocates for Justice and Education/CPRC
    www.AJE-DC.org
• Kentucky
  • FIND of Louisville (Family Information Network on Disabilities of Louisville)/CPRC
    www.findoflouisville.org
  • Kentucky Special Parent Involvement Network (SPIN)
    www.kyspin.com
• Maryland
  • Parents Place of Maryland
    www.ppmd.org
• North Carolina
  • Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC)
    www.ecac-parentcenter.org
  • FIRST - Families' Information Resource Support and Technology                                  www.FIRSTwnc.org
  • Hope Parent Resource Center/CPRC
    www.fsnhope.org
    
• South Carolina
  • PRO-Parents
    www.proparents.org
  • Parent Training & Resource Center CPRC
    www.frcdsn.org
• Tennessee
  • LifeLine, Inc.

  www.lifelinefamilies.org

• Support and Training for Exceptional Parents (STEP)
  www.tnstep.org
• Virginia

• Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC)
  www.peatc.org
• West Virginia
  • West Virginia PTI
    www.wvpti.org

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Related Links

Below are links to resources we think you will find especially helpful.

Mid-South Regional Resource Center

National Technical Assistance and Dissemination Centers

National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who are Deaf-Blind (DB-LINK)

National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults who are Deaf-Blind (NTAC)

Helen Keller National Center

Communities of Practice

Reading Rockets

The Early Childhood Outcomes Center: Demonstrating Results for Infants and Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities and Their Families

The National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities, HEATH Resource Center

Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)

Family Center on Technology and Disability (FCTD)

Professional Development in Autism (PDA) Center

Technical Assistance in Data Collection, Analysis, and Report Preparation

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