[BHS Etree] PARENT RESOURCE CENTER: Welcome to BOLD, Sep. 19 (Mon)

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Welcome to BOLD
(Berkeley High Families Owning Learning Differences)

BOLD is a support group for parents of children with Learning Differences. This group, formed in 2013 by Berkeley High parents, meets on the 2nd Monday* of the month at Berkeley High usually in the College and Career Center. BOLD is dedicated to finding ways to support, empower and educate students with learning disabilities and their families by fostering understanding and advocating for effective intervention.

Our meetings present helpful informational topics relevant to parents of high school students with learning disabilities and forums where parents can voice their concerns, find resources and information and find a community.

Our first meeting will be held on Monday September 19 in the College and Career Center in the D building of BHS.

For the first hour of our meeting, Larissa Cummings, a staff attorney at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) here in Berkeley who specializes in special education law will update us on news about DREDF's ongoing special education advocacy in the Berkeley Unified School District, including its May 2015 dyslexia-focused compliance complaint and its August 2015 disability discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). She will be accompanied by Deborah Jacobson, a private special ed attorney, who is helping DREDF develop the dyslexia case.

The second hour of the evening will be a forum to meet new and old members and take note of parent's issues and concerns for the new school year.

Questions? Email: bhsboldcontact at gmail.com<mailto:bhsboldcontact at gmail.com>

*Meeting dates may change due to holidays, etc. Please look for BHS ETREE announcements for actual dates.

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