Medina PTA advocates for our children's health and wellbeing at the local, state, and national levels: from parent education events at our school to legislative action through WSPTA and National PTA.

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Parent Education Resources: Anxiety in Children, Learning Disorders, ADHD

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Parent Education

2024-2025 Advocacy Chair: Joyce Kao

advocacy@medinapta.org

The goal for Medina PTA Advocacy 2024-2025 is to provide parent education in learning more about
strategies for supporting children’s emotional well-being and resilience.

Per below are a few possible topics:

1. Positive Parenting- Research has shown that positive parenting helps children do better in school, have fewer behavioral problems, and stronger mental health. Do you want to learn what are the tips & skill to promote positive parenting at home?

2. Executive Function- Kids rely on their executive functions for everything from taking a shower to packing a backpack or doing a book report. Children who have poor executive functioning are more disorganized than other kids. They might take an extraordinarily long time to get dressed or become overwhelmed while doing simple chores around the house. Do you want to learn the ways to help your kid who struggle with executive function skills get more organized?

3. Emotion Coaching- Emotionally intelligent children will enjoy increased self-confidence, greater physical health, better performance in school, and healthier social relationships. Do you want to learn the tool that can help prevent and lower your child’s strong negative emotions and reactions (such as anger, yelling, saying mean things and throwing things) during times of distress?

Any other topic you’re interested with, we love to hear from you! If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach me at advocacy@medinapta.org

Anxiety in Children

Anxiety is a major problem interfering with kids’ emotional well-being. Learn and understand your anxious child’s reactions:

Learning Disorders

Today I want to share information about important learning disorders that can be part of your child’s life. Learning about these will help you see your child from a different perspective.

Here is a brief description:

📌Dysgraphia: A learning difficulty specific to writing
📌Dyslexia: A learning difficulty specific to reading.
📌Dyscalculia: A learning difficulty specific to Mathematics
📌Dyspraxia: A learning difficulty specific to fine & gross motor.

Sometimes we don’t know why our child is struggling at school and because of that it’s crucial that we learn about these neurological variations that can affect the way your child learns. Ignoring the signs will only hold back your child and your family.

Families can benefit from early intervention by being able to better meet their children's needs from an early age and throughout their lives.

Let’s Speak Up for our kids, they need to know that People with neurological differences are not broken or incomplete versions of normal people, they just learn and think differently and they only need to be accepted and understood.

ADHD

Legislative

CONTACTS

Local Contacts

2024-2025 Advocacy Chair: Joyce Kao

advocacy@medinapta.org

2024-2025 WSPTA Region 2 Advocacy Chair: Position open

2024-2025 WSPTA Region 2 Director: Emilie Castle

ptareg2@wastatepta.org

State Legislature

Let your state legislators know how important funding our children’s education is to you via emails and/or phone calls! Click HERE to go to the Washington State Legislative page for contacts.

To check on the status of a bill or to comment, go to: http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/

LATEST UPDATES

Updates can be found in our Bellevue/WA/National PTA News Blog.

WSPTA

Focus Day: TBA

Focus Day is a day where Washington State PTA (WSPTA) members travel to Olympia for a day full of engagement around our mission. Members meet with legislators, tour the capitol, and demonstrate advocacy in action.

Learn more about Focus on Advocacy week here.

Legislative Assembly: October 26-27, 2024

The 46th Annual WSPTA Legislative Assembly will take place October 26-27, 2024 at Seattle Pacific University. This event will be an in-person event.

Delegates will discuss, debate, and vote on new issues and resolutions, including the adoption of WSPTA’s 2024-2026 Legislative Platform and Top Five Issues.

Visit here for the WSPTA Advocacy page, with the current Legislative Priorities and Supported Issues.

Next WSPTA Convention: May 2-4, 2025

Lynwood, WA

Keep up with the latest Advocacy news at WSPTA Advocacy Blog.