§1472 — Title 20 Education | U.S. Code

§1472 Community parent resource centers

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 33— - EDUCATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - NATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES › Part Part C— - Supports To Improve Results for Children With Disabilities › § 1472

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may give grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to local parent groups to run community parent resource centers. These centers must help underserved parents of children with disabilities (including low-income parents, parents who speak limited English, and parents with disabilities) get the training and information they need. The goal is to help children meet developmental and academic goals and to help them become as independent as possible as adults. local parent organization — a parent group whose board is mostly parents of children with disabilities ages birth through 26 and whose mission is to serve parents of children ages birth through 26 with the full range of disabilities listed in section 1401(3). Each center must provide training and information that fits the parents’ needs, do the activities required under paragraphs (2)–(9) of section 1471(b), work with the parent training and information centers funded under section 1471, and be designed for families who are very isolated from information and support.

Title 20, §1472

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(a)(1)The Secretary may award grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, local parent organizations to support community parent resource centers that will help ensure that underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low income parents, parents of limited English proficient children, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information the parents need to enable the parents to participate effectively in helping their children with disabilities—

(A)to meet developmental and functional goals, and challenging academic achievement goals that have been established for all children; and

(B)to be prepared to lead productive independent adult lives, to the maximum extent possible.

(2)In this section, the term “local parent organization” means a parent organization, as defined in section 1471(a)(2) of this title, that—

(A)has a board of directors the majority of whom are parents of children with disabilities ages birth through 26 from the community to be served; and

(B)has as its mission serving parents of children with disabilities who—

(i)are ages birth through 26; and

(ii)have the full range of disabilities described in section 1401(3) of this title.

(b)Each community parent resource center assisted under this section shall—

(1)provide training and information that meets the training and information needs of parents of children with disabilities proposed to be served by the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement;

(2)carry out the activities required of parent training and information centers under paragraphs (2) through (9) of section 1471(b) of this title;

(3)establish cooperative partnerships with the parent training and information centers funded under section 1471 of this title; and

(4)be designed to meet the specific needs of families who experience significant isolation from available sources of information and support.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 1472, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 672, as added Pub. L. 105–17, title I, § 101,

June 4, 1997, 111 Stat. 136, related to research and innovation to improve services and results for children with disabilities, prior to the general amendment of subchapters I to IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 108–446. Another prior section 1472, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 672, as added Pub. L. 99–457, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 8, 1986, 100 Stat. 1146; amended Pub. L. 100–630, title I, § 108(b), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3301; Pub. L. 101–476, title VIII, § 801, title IX, § 901(b)(162), (163), Oct. 30, 1990, 104 Stat. 1141, 1149; Pub. L. 102–119, §§ 12, 25(b), Oct. 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 595, 607, related to definitions, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–17, title II, § 203(b),

June 4, 1997, 111 Stat. 157, effective

July 1, 1998.