The Paulding\/Van Wert Transition Council, The Parent Mentor Program of Paulding County, and the State Support Team Region 1 are pleased to sponsor \u201cChanging School Culture\u201d, an inspirational evening presentation with nationally recognized spoken word poet, playwright, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and advocate, LeDerick R. Horne.
\nThis special evening presentation takes place Wednesday, April 30, 2014, from 7:00\u20138:00 p.m. at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 Ohio 118 in Van Wert, OH. Light refreshments will be served.
\nThe presentation will focus on best practices to guide the successful creation of school and community environments that optimize student potential. Emphasis will be placed on disability self-awareness, self-advocacy and the interrelationship of these to the needs of transition-aged youth with disabilities.
\nThe evening event is for students with disabilities who are in the process of transition, and their parents, and for the teachers who serve them.
\nFor more information about LeDerick visit www.lederick.com\/index.php
\nThere is no charge to attend. Certificate of Attendance will be available. Pre-registration is preferred by contacting:
\nCathy Ruiz, Parent Mentor, Western Buckeye Educational Service Center, Paulding County, at 419-263-2512 (select opt. #4 for Payne Bldg.) or 419-203-7364 or email Cathy at cruiz@wb.noacsc.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Paulding\/Van Wert Transition Council, The Parent Mentor Program of Paulding County, and the State Support Team Region 1 are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1473,2276,2273,2274,46,394],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","tag-buckeye","tag-culture","tag-fbadmins","tag-fbapp_id","tag-school-2","tag-western"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-1Gl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 09:23:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}