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Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act

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Virginia Parent Center Wins 2010 TATRA Award for Excellence

Posted: 7/28/2010

Virginia's Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC) is the recipient of PACER Center’s TATRA Project (Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act) 2010 Award for Excellence in Transition-focused Parent Training. The national award was announced earlier this month at the annual TATRA conference at PACER Center in Arlington, VA. PEATC, the parent information and training center serving families and professionals of children with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia, received the TATRA award in recognition for its series of NEXT STEPS transition webinars. The webinars were developed in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University as part of PEATC’s multifaceted NEXT STEPS transition training program. The TATRA Project’s annual award highlights transition resources for parents of youth with disabilities that reflect current research, utilize innovative formats, can be easily replicated by others and model creative use of collaborations. The webinar series can be accessed at http://www.nextsteps.peatc.org/peatc

Experts Provide Overview of the Health Reform Law

Posted: 4/23/2010

On April 16th the Alliance for Health Reform and the Commonwealth Fund assembled a panel of experts to answer common questions about the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Materials developed for this webinar as well as links to briefing documents on other web sites are now available.

Information on Health Reform from the Kaiser Family Foundation

Posted: 4/23/2010

Information on the new health reform law is available on the Kaiser Family Foundation's website. The foundation's "Health Reform Gateway" features research, analysis and polling on health reform issues and recently added several briefs explaining new health care reform provisions, including the extension of dependent coverage to Age 26. An interactive calculator on the site also helps illustrate the financial assistance people will get in the future if they will purchase their health insurance through an exchange because they don't get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid.

CALL FOR ENTRIES!

Posted: 3/17/2010

Award for Excellence in Transition-Focused Parent Training PACER Center’s TATRA (Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act) Project is proud to announce a call for entries to the annual Award for Excellence in Transition-focused Parent Training. This annual award seeks to identify and highlight promising transition tools developed by OSEP-funded Parent Training and Information Centers, Community Parent Resource Centers, and RSA-funded parent training projects. (Deadline: April 16th 2010)