The Office of Early Childhood Quality and Workforce Development at the VDOE will offer a webinar focused on building, sustaining and improving early childhood inclusion of children with IEPs on October 24^th, 11:00 am -12:00 pm. The webinar will address system and program related factors that impact the Least Restrictive Environment and appropriate service provision for preschool aged children with IEPs. The webinar will advance participants’ knowledge of the benefits and legal requirements of early childhood inclusion, contexts and models of inclusion, provide state and federal early childhood inclusion data, and identify resources for programs to support and improve inclusion. The target audience is administrators and supervisors of programs that serve young children with disabilities (ECSE, Head Start, VPI, Title I, community-based providers) and anyone else who would like to learn more about inclusion. 

Resources needed for the webinar will be emailed to those registered a few days prior to the event. The webinar will be recorded and the recording will be available to all who register.

Registration questions should be directed to Jackie Kilkeary, TTAC GMU, at jkilkear@gmu.edu.

Content questions should be directed to Dawn Henricks, Early Childhood Special Education Coordinator by email at Dawn.hendricks@doe.virginia.gov.