Fund monthly Parents Support Group featuring expert speakers on many topics critical to parents of a child with a disability. This group also has been responsible for creating a great supportive bonds between the parents of newly diagnosed children and veteran parents.

  Fund Speaker Programs for the community in the area of Inclusion, IEP training, Brain Mapping and Medication.

  Sponsor teachers, administrators and staff to attend seminars and conferences in various fields of Special Education across the US and California.

  Sponsor Occupational Therapy classroom at local elementary school to provide much needed services to disabled students who could not travel the hour to the next closest OT center.

  Sponsor new preschool Special Education classroom (equipment).

  Newly sponsored upcoming K-3 elementary Intensive Services classroom. We matched district funding to provide this much needed classroom to visually, cognitively and physically disabled students.

  Provide Assistive Technology and specialized computer programs for various levels of disabled students.

  Sponsored Santa Monica based bus program for teachers to work with students on city awareness skills

  Sponsored the creation of the Learning Resource Center-specialized reading room with specialized programs and teachers to work with Special Ed students on their reading skills.

  Sponsor weekly Yoga classes for Special Ed students to work on breathing and concentration which is proven to help students achieve success in the classroom..

  Sponsored Independent Life Skills classroom and provided equipment.

In addition to our on-going programs, this coming school year, The Malibu Special Education Foundation will work collaboratively with Santa Monica based administrators in sponsoring a program to create a framework in which parents and administrators can forge meaningful relationships and cut down on the costly battles in court over services.

We are also planning on supporting critical teacher resources (partial) with every special education Malibu/Santa Monica based faculty member who lost funding from federal cuts to the Medi-cal program...it's a big commitment and very expensive but there are no more funding streams available to meet the needs of all these students in both our cities.

You can also check out photos from our fundraiser last weekend, The Flip Flop Ball, featured in both The Malibu Times and Malibu Surfside News. You can also read about our advocacy adventures with the Santa Monica School Board at TheMalibuTimes.com and peruse my guest editorial under Public Forum in the Malibu Times from last week.