Saturday, October 14, 2023
9:00 AM: T-shirts go on sale! Vendors Open
Breakfast on your own
Sensory Free Room open: Malibu Suite (Second Floor North Tower)
9:00 AM-10:00 AM: General Session: National Updates
Join APRIL’s Advocacy Chair, Don Dew, NCIL’s Policy Director, Jessica Podesva, NASILC’s Board Chair, FranSha’ Anderson, and APRIL’s Executive Director, Brandon Brown for a discussion of advocacy topics important to the IL community. Whether the 5 for 5 campaign, 504 regulations, APS rule setting, or infrastructure legislation, they all impact our IL work. The theme of this session is “the magic of collaboration and activation” to show the unity of the IL network and the importance of working together for common goals. We can make a difference!
10:00 AM- 10:30 AM: Transition to Concurrent Workshops
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Workshops
- Garden 1&2 N. Tower: From Refugee camp to U.S. Citizen
- Garden 3 N. Tower: BASE Film Extravaganza
- Garden 4 N. Tower: Recognizing Differences to Make a Good Team
- Grand E: The Magic of Photos and Web-based Storytelling to Raise Rural IL Awareness
- Grand F: Final Accessibility Guidelines for the Public Right-of-Way (PROWAG): What Now?
- Grand G: Empowering Young People with Disabilities: Our Experience at EmpowHer Camp
12:00- 1:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
1:30 PM-2:30 PM Concurrent Workshops
- Garden 1&2 N. Tower: Introducing the Outcome Measurement Toolkit—A Resource for Centers for Independent Living
- Garden 3 N. Tower: Solution Centered Language: Reaching Risk-Sensitive Populations
- Garden 4 N. Tower:IL: It's Just Different!
- Grand E: Healthy Relationships in the Disabled Community
- Grand F: So Every Body Can Move Legislative Initiative
- Grand G: The "Six Selfies" in You!
2:30 PM-3:00 PM BREAK
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Workshops
- Garden 1&2 N. Tower: Making Visible Unseen Disabilities, a History of Mental Health system from a Survivor
- Garden 3 N. Tower: Diversity without Inclusion is not enough
- Garden 4 N. Tower: Show Me The Money: Foundations of Grant Writing
- Grand E: SILCs Creating Strategic Partnerships
- Grand F: Disability Counts: An RTC:Rural tool to support accessing and using data for advocacy, reporting, and funding
- Grand G: Let's Talk Disability: A Monologue Production
4:00 PM-4:15 PM Break
4:15 PM-5:15 PM Peer Support Sessions
- Garden 1&2 N. Tower: Peer Support for Executive Directors/CEO's
- Garden 3 N. Tower: Peer Support for SILC Staff
- Garden 4 N. Tower: Peer Support for Youth Coordinators
- Grand E: Peer Support for Program Managers/Assistant Directors
- Grand F: Peer Support for Systems Advocacy/Community Change
- Grand G: Peer Support for Direct Service staff (IL Specialists, Employment Specialists, Transportation Coordinators etc)
6:30 PM- 9:00 PM: Awards Banquet and Plated Dinner
Cash Bar, Plated Dinner, Musical Stylings of Jim Meck
Linda Gonzales Award and Youth The Final Word
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