Category: People
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Introducing Alex Campbell
Please join me in welcoming Alex Campbell as a contributor to the Alliance Against Restraint and Seclusion. We are very excited to have Alex join our team and look forward to working with him to impact change. Alex Campbell is an advocate for students with disabilities and the Executive Director of Campbell Advocacy. He is…
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Introducing Pamela Ononiwu
Please join me an welcoming Pamela Ononiwu as a contributor to the Alliance Against Restraint and Seclusion.
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Segregation and Restraint
A family’s journey Today’s guest author is Amber Dawn. Amber is a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. Amber is an advocate for better teacher-parent relationships in the education system. Amber is a parent who’s willing to stand up for her son and others. It all started in Kindergarten, a teacher told me something was wrong with my…
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A Moron Row, Knuckle Raps, and “Dunce Caps”
I started school in 1958 in a classroom in a house in the little town of Lost Creek, West Virginia. According to my mother, I was ready for school two years before I could start because I set about mastering the set of skills necessary for students to learn before entering school that were listed…
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If Johns Hopkins Children’s Center recommends it
Maybe your child’s teacher should read it too Today’s guest author is Shelley. Shelley is a stay at home mom, whose son is her full time job. I have a son with special needs who is in the 3rd grade. Approximately 14 months ago I took my son to the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center due to…
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No restraining, just keeping kids busy and loved!
A teachers journey Today’s guest author is Sharon Bense. After teaching special education in the public schools for 20 years, Sharon Bense, co-founded Clover Community School in Bentonville, Arkansas, to give students who learn differently a chance to attend a school created just for them. Sharon has a bachelors degree in psychology from the University Texas…
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Be the change that you wish to see in the world
Our children’s future and others like them are literally on the line Today’s guest author is Pamela Ononiwu. Pamela is a mother from Virginia and a Candidate for School Board Member, for Fairfax County Public Schools, the Mt. Vernon District. When it was revealed in March 2019 that Fairfax County Public Schools had thousands of cases where…
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Not a Crime
Kids need help to reach their full potential Today’s guest author is Vickie Jarosz. Vickie is a stay at home mom from Peachtree City Georgia. She is the parent to four children (adopted) who suffered exposure to drugs and alcohol in-utero. Two of our kids were adopted from foster care have added issues from suffering early…
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The Allegory of the Closet
The nightmares from childhood trauma are first lived, then never lived down. I woke up this morning around 4:30 am in a cold sweat. I was awakened from a nightmare. It’s a recurring nightmare for me. It’s the kind of dream from which one awakens and feels it just happened, that all the sensations felt…
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From Paraprofessional to Restraint and Seclusion Advocate
Today’s guest author is Molly Hoffard. Molly is a mother from Lakeville, Minnesota. She’s a Partners in Policymaking graduate, an end of life doula, a nonprofit director and an advocate for developmental disabilities. As a college student, I was sent by a temp staffing agency to work for the public schools as a paraprofessional. On my…