Ohio Coalition For The Education Of Children With Disabilities

Parent training and information center for ohio - ocecd has set forth as its mission to endorse and promote efforts to provide appropriate quality education for children and youth with disabilities. We do this in the belief that all children have the right to a meaningful and relevant education. The ohio coalition staff and consultants are dedicated to ensuring that every child with disabilities is provided a free, appropriate public education. With this in mind, ocecd continually strives to improve the quality of services for all children and youth withdisabilities in ohio. The ohio coalition's vision is to safeguard that all students with disabilities are: prepared for kindergarten, ready to be actively engaged in learning, and able to graduate equipped to move on to a career or on to college and then a career.

Early childhood inclusive leadership project the department is contracting with the ohio coalition for the education of children with disabilities ("contractor") to accomplish the goal of the early childhood inclusive leadership project, funded by the us department of education, office of special education programs, which is to enhance the skills, knowledge, and leadership capacity of early childhood leaders so that they can impact the development and education of children with disabilities and their families in meaningful and intentionally positive ways. The early childhood leaders will be part of a two-year long fellowship, during the which the modules created under this agreement will be presented to them. The contractor will create learning modules and a mentoring curriculum that selected leadership fellows will complete during their two years of the fellowship.