Peer to Peer Program Data is due by March 7, 2025. Please contact Stephanie Pulido if you have any questions about this form or about collecting your Peer to Peer data.

The Mid-Year Contract Progress Report was due January 31, 2025. If you have any questions, please reach out to your START RCN Representative or Jana Benjamin.

We are excited to share that registration is open for the 24th Annual START Conference: Empowering Students through Communication, taking place on April 28, 2025, at the Lansing Center in Lansing, Michigan.

We anticipate the conference will reach capacity so we encourage you to register soon.

We are excited to feature Keynote Sessions from Caroline Gaddy, MFA, MA, CCC-SLP and Ashley Larisey, MS, CCC-SLP/L and afternoon breakout sessions! We hope you will join us.

Registration Information:

We are excited to share that the Peer to Peer map has been updated with data from 2023-2024. This map features school buildings in Michigan with a Peer to Peer Program. We encourage you to check out the updated map!

The application for the EPLI FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is open!

The FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp will take place on March 12 and 13, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Lansing Community College West Campus (LCC West).

The FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is intended to support current EPLI Trainers of START content, with increasing confidence and competence, in training the START FAPE in the LRE content in their local contexts. This Bootcamp will be a very rigorous, yet engaging session; prerequisite work is required to prepare participants for the day. In addition to strengthening the content knowledge of trainers, strategies for the instructional delivery of the FAPE in the LRE training module will be shared and practiced.

The EPLI FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is open to Current EPLI Trainers of START Content that have attended FAPE in the LRE in the past year.

The Elementary and Secondary Peer to Peer Program Playbooks are available to the RCN at no cost. START will collect orders for both Playbooks through May 2025. Orders will ship out on a monthly basis

Order Elementary and Secondary Peer to Peer Program Playbooks here. Please contact Avis Merry if you have any questions.

→ We invite the RCN to distribute the START Training and Training Series Flyers to staff, community members, and families across your region. 

START also developed Training and Training Series Slides for use in presentations.

 The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Project is funded by the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education to provide training and technical assistance to educators in Michigan that serve students with ASD.

START Project | autismed@gvsu.edu | (616) 331-6480