Here are some ways I can support you to understand your learner's therapeutic needs in the school environment

Therapeutic Needs Assessment: Identify your learner’s therapeutic needs in the school setting, including appropriate placement, accommodations, and interventions, in order to improve student functioning at school.

School Staff Support: Help staff learn how to support your learner’s mental health needs within the school setting.

Attendance Support Consultation: Encourage and facilitate collaboration between caregivers and educational institutions to better understand your learner's challenges in attending school. Discuss potential accommodations that can be incorporated into the IEP/504 to effectively address any unmet attendance-based needs.

Neurodiversity consultation: Collaborate with caregivers and schools to design more inclusive environments for your student’s neurological differences

I have been a dedicated social worker and advocate for social change for many years. In 2015, my mission gained profound personal meaning when I became a mother to a son with a rare disease, followed by the birth of my autistic son in 2017. My experiences navigating systems of care and education for children with complex needs profoundly changed the way I looked at life. So...I started on a path to find ways to turn these struggles into opportunities that could benefit others, and one day my sons. 

Over the years, I found various ways to harness my doctoral-level education, extensive research, and more than a decade of social work practice to serve other families like mine in their fight to access their learner's right to a Free Appropriate Public Education.

From this experience, the next chapter of my journey emerged – JMBD Consulting!

I am truly grateful for your consideration in selecting me as a partner for you and your child. It is always a great honor when a family invites me into their lives.