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Too many parent caregivers are isolated, exhausted, and unseen.
RSVP for our special screening of Unseen: Caregiver Documentary on Feb. 16th | 5:30 pm at Tower Theatre OKC.
http://ow.ly/sJQZ50MEXzK
The film opens up an important discussion about the challenges facing many parent caregivers and what we can all do to help. Respite vouchers available. Email
[email protected] to apply.
Sponsored by Gatesway Foundation, Autism Foundation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. and Sooner SUCCESS.
The Center for Learning and Leadership/UCEDD and the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. invite you to the family training on Long-term Planning - Financial and Employment Options Jan. 18th at noon. Registration is required.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf-uvqjIvG9T-FjEFHj3Dd7nVeg49xl6R
Participants in this training will learn about long-term supports and benefits, including waiver supports, and options for community-integrated employment such as Ticket to Work. Attendees will also learn about saving money through OK STABLE accounts beyond the typical Medicaid asset limits. Learn about what could be available for the people in your lives with IDD.
The Center for Learning and Leadership/UCEDD and the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. invite you to the family training on Long-term Planning - Financial and Employment Options Jan. 18th at noon. Registration is required.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf-uvqjIvG9T-FjEFHj3Dd7nVeg49xl6R
Participants in this training will learn about long-term supports and benefits, including waiver supports, and options for community-integrated employment such as Ticket to Work. Attendees will also learn about saving money through OK STABLE accounts beyond the typical Medicaid asset limits. Learn about what could be available for the people in your lives with IDD.
The Center for Learning and Leadership/UCEDD and the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. invite you to the family training on Long-term Planning - Financial and Employment Options Jan. 18th at noon. Registration is required.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf-uvqjIvG9T-FjEFHj3Dd7nVeg49xl6R
Participants in this training will learn about long-term supports and benefits, including waiver supports, and options for community-integrated employment such as Ticket to Work. Attendees will also learn about saving money through OK STABLE accounts beyond the typical Medicaid asset limits. Learn about what could be available for the people in your lives with IDD.
Reminder from Oklahoma State Election Board: If you requested an absentee ballot, but did not vote it, you may vote at your Election Day polling place. You will sign an affidavit affirming that you did not vote the absentee ballot.
Find your polling place at the OK Voter Portal:
https://oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.html
Call the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. Voter Hotline if you need help understanding your voting rights or if you encounter a problem voting 855-468-VOTE(8683)
Get out and cast your vote Oklahoma! Polls are open 7 am ot 7 pm. Make sure you're prepared before you head to the polls.
Find your polling place and view a sample ballot:
https://oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.html
See the election list:
https://hosting.okelections.us/electionlist.html
Call the OOklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.Voter Hotline if you need help understanding your voting rights or if you encounter a problem voting 855-468-VOTE(8683)
Shout out and many thanks to all of the vendors and first responders who showed up to interact with community and share resources, as well as information to help their students have a successful year. Tulsa Police Department Tulsa County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) Tulsa Fire Department Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Tulsa Legacy Charter School Guts Church Tulsa Health Department Tulsa City-County Library Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services One Church One Child Tulsa The Parent Child Center of Tulsa Social Security Administration Oklahoma Parents Center Oklahoma Mothers' Milk Bank US Cellular American Red Cross
Our first class is next Tuesday Workflow Commons & Offices! Sign-up today through the QR code on the flier. Training is free and 2 CLE’s are available! Brought to you by the Oklahoma Bar Foundation.
Oklahoma Bar Association
Oklahoma Lawyers for Children
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc.
National Lawyers Guild - Oklahoma Chapter
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Oklahoma Law Review
The University of Oklahoma College of Law
Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.
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ICYMI: The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is reducing and denying hours for many medically fragile children receiving private duty nursing through SoonerCare. If your child has been affected, you have the right to appeal the decision. Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. can help with the appeals process.
The Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. is helping people with disabilities avoid eviction during the COVID-fueled recession. If you need help, call them at 1-800-880-7755.
Did you vote in the election on March 3rd? Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. needs individuals with help to improve voting access in Oklahoma by completing this short survey below.
https://electionmarch2020.questionpro.com/
Did you vote in the election on March 3rd? Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. needs individuals with help to improve voting access in Oklahoma by completing this short survey below.
https://electionmarch2020.questionpro.com/
Engaging People with Disabilities and Families in Person Centered Planning - w/ Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, TASH; Tia Nelis, TASH; Mark Friedman CUNY School of Professional Studies, Nancy Ward, Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.
Register at
http://bit.ly/PacRim20reg
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Person Centered Planning (P*P) has emerged as a critical tool for helping individuals with disabilities identify goals they want to achieve across the lifespan. Planning for transition aged youth with disabilities relies on developing Individual Education Transition Plans. This presentation explores how a person centered planning process can be used to help strengthen Individual Education Transition Plans, with a particular emphasis on employment. Presenters will share the history of person centered planning, an overview of various approaches in current use, and provide tools for preparing students and families for becoming active members in the planning process.
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1. Identify personal strengths, gifts and talents for themselves and family members.
2. Gain an understanding of the goals and outcomes of the person centered planning process.
3. Understand the origins and evolution of P*P.
4. Gain knowledge on how P*P can be used to enhance the transition process.
5. Learn how to integrate P*P in the IEP process.
6. Learn different P*P tools i.e. PATH, Essential Life Planning, Life Course Planning.
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Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of TASH, Inc. and a national consultant who helps people with disabilities develop and implement strategies for greater autonomy in their daily lives. She was the founder and principal partner of Blue Fire Consulting and provided consulting services across the United States in areas of self-determination, community organizing, leadership development, and self-employment. Committed to grassroots approaches to empowerment and resource mobilization, she has served as the founder and Executive Director of the two statewide non-profit organizations dedicated to helping people with disabilities; The Tennessee Association of Microboards and Cooperatives, Inc. and People First of Tennessee, Inc.
Tia Nelis is the Policy and Advocacy Director for TASH. Her proudest achievement as a self-advocate is when she found her voice by learning about self-advocacy with her friends. All of them coming together as a group with support, learned about self-advocacy and other leadership skills. That taught them how to speak-up and use their voice. Today, she gets to share her advocacy skills and leadership skills with others as a part of her job. She gets excited when she supports other people to find their voice and see them speak-up for what they want for the first time and to know that she had something to do with it. Tia is the past president of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered and a trained facilitator of person centered planning using PATH (Planning Alternatives Together with Hope).
Mark Friedman, Ph.D. teaches Disability Studies as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the City University of New York. He serves as a Subject Matter Expert in participant engagement to the National Center on Advancing Person Centered Practices and Systems. Dr. Friedman's primary work has been helping people with disabilities gain a voice in their lives through self-advocacy and policy making and helping people move from large state institutions into community programs. He has presented to audiences in 22 states, provided advocacy training in Ecuador and Kosovo, and authored thirteen publications.
Nancy Ward is an advocate with the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. She is the voting coordinator at the center. The center is the federally funded protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities in Oklahoma. Nancy has been with the center since 2005. Nancy is actively involved in People First, a Self-Advocacy grassroots organization. She helped organize the first nation-wide Self-Advocacy organization, SABE (Self Advocates Becoming Empowered). She has spoken on disability issues worldwide including countries such as China, Japan and Dubai. She has spoken to members of Congress and Oklahoma’s Legislature on disability issues and awareness, resulting in Oklahoma passing legislation in 2007 requiring any new laws use respectful language when referring to individuals with disabilities.
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Facebook Image Description: Welcomes. Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, TASH; Tia Nelis, TASH; Mark Friedman, CUNY; & Nancy Ward, Oklahoma Disability Law Center. Engaging People with Disabilities and Families in Person Centered Planning. March 2 - 3, 2020 Honolulu, Hawaiʻi - pacrim.hawaii.edu. Images of PacRim & Inclusion logos, presenters
