The South Shore Educational Collaborative’s (SSEC) student enrollment is based on a referral process from your home school district. Students may be referred to one of SSEC’s five programs after your child’s IEP team has participated and agreed on a Placement Meeting and determined an out of district placement is the next appropriate step. At that time, parental consent will be requested by the district to send out information packets to appropriate placements. These referral packets could include but are not limited to all relevant and appropriate paperwork such as most recent IEP, progress notes and evaluations completed in the past three years. Once SSEC has received the student referral packet, our programs follow their specific processes linked below.
As stated above, SSEC is a referral based school program. The process starts with your home school district. If you are unsure where to start, there are several contacts you can try in your district:
The Special Education department of your home district. This information can be found on your school district website. The Special Education Director, the Out-of-District Liaison, the Department Chair/Team Chair of your child’s grade level can all offer information for your “next steps”. The Special Education department secretary should be able to aid you in finding the most appropriate staff member to contact.
The School District Contact listed at the top of the first page (Administrative Data Sheet) of your child’s IEP. This is usually the Special Education Director of the District or the assigned Out-of-District Liaison.
The Team Chair or School Contact listed at the bottom of the first page (Administrative Data Sheet) of your child’s IEP in the section, “Assigned School Information”.
