Presenters and Session Description
Project POWER – Empowering Region D: TA Tools for Practical Youth Inclusion.
Project POWER – Empowering Region D: TA Tools for Practical Youth Inclusion
Project POWER – Empowering Region D: TA Tools for Practical Youth Inclusion
From Scrambling to Sustainable: How to Resource Your Work Now and For the Future
Description: Figuring out how to survive, thrive and sustain as a mission-driven organization is always a priority, but this year, perhaps more than ever. With federal funding becoming unstable -at best and vanishing-at worst, there has never been a better time for organizations to take an honest look at their revenue mix, find ways to diversify and sustain their work. This process can be helpful, hopeful and even inspiring. Learn how.
Special Needs Trusts : Discretionary Income for Parent Centers & Service to the Community
Description: This presentation will detail how Parent Centers, whether PTI’s or CPRC’s, can generate discretionary income for the organization while also providing substantial and significant services to the disability community in their area. It will briefly discuss what a special needs trust is (and isn’t). It will detail the role for Parent Centers to play that is written into Federal statute. It will also set forth how discretionary income can be generated for a participating Parent Center through the National Disability Alliance Pooled Trust (NDAPT), of which Family Network on Disabilities (FND) serves as the trustee. FND has specifically designed NDAPT to help Parent Centers achieve financial stability through increasing their discretionary income on a sustainable basis.
Special Needs Trusts : Discretionary Income for Parent Centers & Service to the Community
Discription: Children’s entertainment often features the villain as facially disfigured or disabled. This type of narrative solidifies in the developing brain and generates fear, bullying, and poor mental health outcomes. For children with disabilities, this narrative can lead to fundamental and lasting social disconnection. Melissa guides participants through the foundations of storytelling and uses her own story to guide the audience through the release of ingrained narratives in search of the real stories of disability. Melissa applies best practices in child mental health, brain development, and storytelling to teach the history of disability and to unearth new definitions of beauty and social change.
Story telling – The Narrative Power in Our Work
Description: Storytelling has tremendous power to transform the way we see ourselves and each other. Kiran Singh Sirah discusses the power and artistry of storytelling as an ancient art and as the world’s oldest form of communication, and how it can help to build stronger, healthier, more cohesive communities. Sirah discusses storytelling’s unparalleled ability to change the way we interact with one another—how it links us, not just despite our differences, but because of them.
Expanding Program Knowledge and elevating the role of parent centers
Description: Across our organizations, we have incredible strengths and program knowledge. “What” we provide to our communities is as important as “how” we deliver it. This session aims to expand and elevate our role as parent centers. We will take a fresh look at perennial topics like placement, behavior, and supplementary aids and services. We will explore emerging knowledge in communication services (e.g., augmentative communication) and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). For each content area, we will apply methods and tools for adult learning and for enhancing our reach.
