This training is designed to provide the Department of Children and Family Services staff with an introductory course on a traditional school site's educational services, structure, roles, and responsibilities. The viewer will be provided with the most common pieces of educational legislation afforded to our students in foster care, as well as the various school-based meetings.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the various roles and responsibilities of school site staff.
• Understand how to elevate situations, by understanding the administrative structure of a school site.
• Develop advocacy skills to better support students in matters of discipline, attendance, and special education.
• Gain familiarity with educational pieces of legislation that benefit students in foster care.