This course will provide a historical, legal, and structural background of how our education system was created, and about why it is still so segregated by race, with children in the child welfare system, with disabilities, and by race have such unequal outcomes. This course will provide an overview of implicit bias and how that impacts the education system, as well as how trauma experienced by systems involved youth impacts their learning. Participants will then review how children of color and children with disabilities are over represented in the child welfare system; how children of color and those involved in the child welfare system are overrepresented in the special education system and in school discipline.
Meets Required Topic: Trauma, Child Development, Educational Advocacy, or Elective
Location: **This class is a webinar that is attended remotely. Access to a telephone and a computer with access to the internet, webcam and microphone are required to participate in this class.**
**If you have not received a link to access the webinar at least one hour prior to the webinar beginning, please contact FOY.**
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
