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National Council on Independent Living |
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Not Just Responding To Change, But Leading It! |
CIL NET Presents… A National Teleconference & Webinar Get to the Core of It: Systems Advocacy June 16, 2010 Register online or by completing this printable registration form. Cost: $75.00
This year, CIL NET is offering a teleconference & webinar series on the four-core services of Centers for Independent Living. Taking place in five parts, the series will explore best practices and innovative approaches to the four core services: Information & Referral, Peer Support, Independent Living Skills Training, Individual Advocacy, and Systems Advocacy. Each presentation in the series will feature CIL staff and programs that are especially successful at providing excellent services to their communities. Please join us for our fourth episode, Systems Advocacy. Chris Hilderbrant from the Center for Disability Rights (CDR) in Rochester, New York will outline his Center’s outstanding approach to systems advocacy. This presentation is a helpful reminder that, YES!, Centers can and must advocate for the rights and access of people with disabilities! Chris will outline CDR’s use of the pitchfork approach to advocacy and how you can use it in your community. This includes advocating at all levels of government, how to get media coverage, and tips on protest and direct action. In addition, you’ll learn how to help consumers become effective systems change advocates and how, as a Center, you can measure and document your success. Please join us for this exciting presentation!
Target Audience Executive directors, advocates, and other staff of Centers for Independent Living who are involved in systems advocacy.
Registration Fee $75.00 per site. Fee does not apply per participant; registrants are encouraged to gather as many individuals as desired to participate by telephone or webcast. ALL CILs and SILCs are encouraged to participate in this important training. We know some organizations need several weeks to cut checks – don’t let this stop you from registering! Register today and send payment as soon as you are able – even if you must wait until after the presentation. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this webinar, participants will have knowledge and resources which will enable them to:
Meet Your Presenter Chris Hilderbrant is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Center for Disability Rights, managing all of the day-to-day operations of offices in Rochester, Corning, Geneva and Albany. The creation of this new position is in direct response to CDR’s rapid growth and promising future. Since 2003, Hilderbrant served as Director of Advocacy. As a person with a disability due to a spinal cord injury at the age of 14, he has used his personal experience over the past two decades to guide the organization’s advocacy efforts on behalf all people with disabilities, which is representative of CDR’s peer model of advocacy and services. He has led non-violent, direct action efforts for the rights of people with disabilities throughout New York State and the country, including being arrested for committing civil disobedience. One of the most significant accomplishments during his tenure in advocacy has been the enactment of legislation to develop the Nursing Facility Transition and Diversion Waiver in order to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities, regardless of age or type of disabilities, can access services needed for life in the most integrated setting.
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PRESENTED BY CIL-NET: A program of the IL NET national training and technical assistance project for Centers for Independent Living (CIL-NET) and Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILC-NET). The IL NET is operated by ILRU, Independent Living Research Utilization, in partnership with the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL).
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