Please join us for An interview with Cheryl Poe: Black Collective Advocacy Network Conference.

Event Title: Black Collective Advocacy Network Conference

Uplifting Black Families in the Disability Community.
For Us By Us About Us

Date and time: August 11, 2023 -August 13, 2023
August 11, 12-6:00 pm
August 12, 2023, 8:30-6:00
August 13, 2023, 9:00 -12:00

Location: Virtual Event

Event Description: The Black Collective Network Advocacy Conference is a national virtual event that supports, acknowledges, and recognizes the needs of Black and Disabled students, family members, advocates, and professionals in the special education community.

We have created a space where the Black experiences, voices, and resources are shared to uplift Black families of children with disabilities.

For Us: We focus on the needs of Black children with disabilities.

By Us: We promote and uplift Black professionals in the disability & advocacy community.

About Us: We reject the current white supremacy narratives in the disability & advocacy community.

We will have nationally recognized experts such as Marie Davis-Pierre of Autism in Black; Attorney Keith Howard and the one and only Cheryl Poe

Registration Cost
Regular fee: $125.00

Link to purchase a ticket: https://whova.com/portal/registration/bcnac_202306/

About Cheryl Poe:

Cheryl Poe is the founder and Executive Director of Advocating 4 Kids, Inc a Special Education Advocacy organization that provides resources, information, and workshops to parents and professionals with a special focus on addressing the needs of Black and Brown children with disabilities.
She is the past board president of the National Allies for Parents in Special Education NAPSE, a national parent-driven organization that works hard to increase access and quality advocacy resources for special education families from underserved populations to improve educational outcomes.
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Mrs. Poe holds a Master of Arts Degree in Urban Education and Counseling. She also has completed over 15 credit hours of postgraduate hours in psychology. In June of 2004, she completed the Nation Group Psychotherapy Institute at the Washington School of Psychiatry in Washington D.C. in the study of Group Psychotherapy. Mrs. Poe completed a two-year term as the Student Outreach and Recruitment Committee Chairperson for the Mid- Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society Board of Directors. She was awarded the Jefferson Cup for leadership in her role.

Mrs. Poe was the Chair of The National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities (NAEAACLD) Parent Network. Mrs. Poe also served on the board of the Council of Parents, Advocates, and Attorneys (COPAA), where she helped develop strategic goals to address the needs of black people within the organization. Mrs. Poe also served as the Co-Chair for the Social Racial Equity Committee, where is she developed, created, and implemented activities to ensure the needs of Black and Brown Children were addressed and respected within the COPAA organization.

Mrs. Poe completed the inaugural The William & Mary Law Institute of Special Education Advocacy Summer Conference and the first annual class. Eventually, Ms. Poe become a presenter for the William &

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