"Coming Together", Carla Farsi.

Keynote Speaker for
2010 Conference

Dr. Tweety Yates - is a faculty member in the Department of Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and serves as Co-Project Coordinator of the Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning. She is also involved in several other early childhood projects focusing on early literacy initiatives and relationship-based interventions. In addition to her current duties, she has served as project director of several federally funded projects including the development and implementation of an early intervention credentialing system, the replication of a model for supporting child development through parent-child interaction and implementation of an early childhood curriculum for supporting early literacy.  She has also taught in preschool programs and served as a home visitor in early intervention. Dr. Yates has provided training and technical assistance on a state and national level for the past 20 years. She is a past president of the Division of Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children and is currently a board member for the Illinois Infant Mental Health Association

The Coming Together Conference is a partnership between the Family Support Network of Southeastern NC and the New Hanover County School System. Every year it brings together agencies and organizations from all over North Carolina and the US to share and educate our school teachers, administrators, and professionals that work with special needs children.

It is also focused on providing parents and caregivers of these exceptional children information about support groups, agencies, methodologies, and up to date news in the area of special needs.

Each year the conference provides a forum for workshops, seminars and experts to discuss the latest information and issues concerning special needs education.

This year's conference is February 15, 2010. It will be held at Alderman Elementary School on Independence Drive.
The agenda will be posted here soon.

Workshops this year will focus on:

• -- ADHD
• -- Behavior Management
• -- Autism
• -- Sensory Issue
• -- Collaboration
• -- Mental Health Issues
• -- Parenting Skills, and others.
• -- and much much more!

SPECIAL SESSION FOR
PARENT/FAMILY LEADERS:

Developing Partnerships to Improve Outcomes
Explore the history and best practices of family driven services; crosswalk the language in policies and mandates across systems; identify best practices to engage families as leaders; list components of effective partnerships; list strategies to enhance partnerships with families.

1:30 – 3:30  Separate Sign up required

Frederick Douglas, Executive Director and
Laura Weber, NC Family Resource Coalition

Family Support Network of Southeastern

North Carolina programs are free of charge

for families with special needs children.