Empowering Families, Ensuring Access.


At Western United Advocates, we advocate for students with disabilities and their families to ensure every child receives a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). Our team provides expert guidance through the IEP and 504 processes, helps families navigate evaluations, meetings, and school communications, and supports you in understanding you and your child’s rights. We partner with families to create tailored strategies, resolve disputes, and ensure students have access to the services and supports they need to thrive academically and socially. We pride ourselves in working collaboratively with school districts and families. 

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Our Services

Advocacy

We attend IEP, 504, and other school meetings alongside you, ensuring your child’s needs are fully represented. We carefully review evaluations, progress reports, and school documents, helping you understand the information to make informed decisions.

Our Process:

  • Intake consultation

  • Get assigned an advocate

  • Advocate reviews documents

  • Planning meeting with advocate

  • Advocate attends school meetings (IEP, 504, etc)

Coaching

We coach parents through every stage of the special education process, providing guidance, strategies, and support to ensure they are prepared and confident in advocating for their child.

Our process:

  • Intake consultation

  • Get assigned an advocate

  • Advocate reviews documents

  • Consultation with advocate

  • Parent attends meeting

  • Consultation with advocate throughout entirety of process

Consulting

We work with parents on an as-needed-basis, behind the scenes, reviewing school documents, evaluations, and reports, and helping families prepare for IEP and 504 meetings so they can advocate confidently for their child’s needs.

Our Process:

  • Intake consultation

  • Get assigned an advocate

  • Advocate reviews documents

  • Consultation with advocate

Litigation Support

We assist families and attorneys by reviewing special education documents, preparing case materials, and providing educational guidance throughout the legal process to ensure students’ rights are fully represented and protected.

services include:

  • Correspondence with district regarding reciving documents

  • Requesting specific data collection

  • Provide educational recommendations

  • Reviewing of documents for accuracy

  • Meeting attendance

  • Compliance monitoring

  • Monitoring of parent-district correspondence

  • Document & evidence organization

Work With Us

FAQs

  • Western United Advocates ensures accessibility to our services for all families. WUA offers a sliding scale based on household income and accepts pro-bono cases for those who qualify.

  • Western United Advocates can help support families who are in any stage of the IEP process— requesting evaluations, students who have been on an IEP for multiple years, dispute resolution, high school students behind on credits, online students, transitioning from an IFSP to an IEP, transition programs, etc.

  • Regardless of if your student is on an IEP or a 504, reach out to WUA to schedule a free 30 min consultation. From there, we will decide what type of services you are needing. WUA will review documents, and then inform you of next steps.

  • WUA has extensive experience, in multiple states, helping families with state complaints, requesting IEE’s, attending facilitated IEP meetings, mediation and negotiating compensatory education with districts. Please reach out with questions.