Sudbury SEPAC

As summer gets underway, CMHRC has an upcoming event about heat and mental health. This event is targeted toward clinicians but open to families and individuals as well.

https://cmhrc.org

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Clinical Seminar: Mental Health in the Age of Climate Crisis. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. One of the major threats of climate change is rising heat and the complications this has for those who live with mental illness. Stigma around mental illness causes many of the people who are most at risk to be isolated, economically, and socially marginalized leading to greater risk to their mental...

All are cordially invited to join Sudbury SEPAC for our end of year social on Thursday, June 4th, at Oak Barrel Tavern at 7pm. We look forward to seeing you!

Special Town Meeting – Parking Information Update

A Special Town Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 7PM in Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Gymnasium. As there are other events taking place at the High School that evening, voters are advised to allow ample time for parking and walking to the gymnasium. In addition, please note that the Town Meeting venue is the L-SRHS Gymnasium and not the Auditorium, as during the Annual Town Meeting earlier this month.

Other events taking place at L-SRHS on Wednesday 5/20 evening will be held in the Auditorium and Cafeteria. As the L-S parking lot is anticipated to have a high volume of vehicles entering and exiting at once, particularly around 7PM, drivers are asked to proceed with added caution and watch for pedestrians.

The parking spaces by the High School front entrance will be reserved for accessible parking only.

Overflow parking will be available at Nixon Elementary School and Featherland Park, however capacity at Featherland will be somewhat reduced as sports will be in progress on the athletic fields until 10PM. Additional lighting will be in place at the crosswalks between Featherland Park and the High School for those returning to vehicles at Featherland at the conclusion of Town Meeting. Please note that parking is not allowed along Lincoln Road and Concord Road.

If possible, it is recommended that voters:
• Carpool to/from all events held at L-SRHS on May 20
• Drop off voters who use a wheelchair or have other mobility challenges in close proximity to the Gymnasium entrance prior to parking
• Budget extra time to arrive at Town Meeting. The parking lot will be busiest around 7PM.

Town Meeting Information: https://sudbury.ma.us/townmeeting/?p=1309

Sudbury Families - A Special Town Meeting will be held this Wednesday, May 20th at 7:00 PM in the LSRHS Gymnasium at 390 Lincoln Road.

Details about the warrant articles, parking, transportation, and how to watch the broadcast are all available on the Town website: https://sudbury.ma.us/townmeeting/2026/05/18/stm2026/

Be sure to attend in person to vote!

Every child starts in the same place.

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Sudbury will hold a Special Town Meeting on May 20th to decide on 4 articles, including one regarding the SPS school committee. Please consider attending to have your voice heard.

Plan to Attend May 20 Special Town Meeting Even though Sudbury’s three-day Annual Town Meeting just ended, a Special Town Meeting, called in response to a citizen’s petition, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 20. The Special Town Meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, 390 Lincoln Rd. All Sudb...

Join us for our final business meeting of the year this Thursday, May 7th at 7pm!

The primary focus of this meeting will be to elect new members to our 2026-27 SEPAC board and appoint new school liaisons. We will be meeting in the Community Meeting Room at the Sudbury Police Station. We will also hear updates related to special education from Student Services.

All families of SPS' students and interested community members are invited to participate. Our meetings are a wonderful opportunity to hear updates from the district, ask questions, share ideas, and learn about SEPAC events and resources!

Zoom link available upon request.

We hope you can join us!

Monday, May 4th, at 8:30 p.m. ET, join a powerful and timely conversation with Michael McLeod, who has helped hundreds of families better understand and address concerns related to EdTech, executive functioning, attention, and 1:1 devices, not only for children with ADHD and executive functioning challenges, but for the general student population as well.

Michael is an award winning keynote speaker, award winning professional development trainer, co host of the ADHD Parenting Podcast, and author of The Executive Function Playbook and The Executive Function Playbook In Action. He speaks widely about the science and data showing how EdTech and 1:1 devices may interfere with the development of executive function skills, attention, and learning.

📅 Monday, May 4, 2026
🕣 8:30 p.m. Eastern, 5:30 p.m. Pacific
💻 Free Zoom webinar, registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Exec-Function-Crisis-McLeod

Topics include:
• How EdTech and 1:1 devices may interfere with executive function development
• Why this matters not only for children with ADHD and learning differences, but for all children
• What families and schools should understand about attention, regulation, and screen based learning
• What parents, educators, and community leaders should be asking right now