Central MA Inclusion Summit

How Community Organizations Become Disability Inclusive in Their Practices
Event Status
Registration Open
Event Date
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Location
Cost
$25 includes lunch

Join Pathways to Friendship at a workshop for community organizations on how to become inclusive of people with disabilities. Featured speakers from MERGE Inclusion Consulting and North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy will teach tools and strategies for developing disability-inclusive practices. Participants will also have opportunities to network.

Are you interested in strengthening your capacity to be more disability inclusive in your practices? If so, here are your next steps:

REQUESTS FOR ACCOMMODATIONS CAN BE MADE BY 4/21 TO: RHAYWARD [at] ARCMASS.ORG

Here’s a peek into what professionals like yourself will take from this 5-hour workshop:

  • Learn about the principles of disability inclusion that community-based programs should embrace and implement in order to be authentically inclusive of persons with disabilities (while also creating a culture where friendships can be fostered)
  • Be able to distinguish between the steps in the journey from access to inclusion to belonging, and understand the importance of creating and identifying social roles for persons with disabilities to help them to be valued members of their community
  • Learn proper terminology, empowering language and suggested disability etiquette and interactions, giving them the tools and confidence to welcome, engage and support persons with diverse abilities
  • Solve “inclusion scenarios” by using the strategies learned and practiced, helping you to manage common hurdles experienced when supporting persons with disabilities
  • Exploring, share and make connections to other organizations, partnerships & resources
  • Leave with action points to implement back to your organization immediately.

This professional development opportunity is sponsored by the Arc of Massachusetts’s Pathways To Friendship Project, partnering with Open Sky and North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy. Workshop presenters include MERGE Diverse Abilities Inclusion Consulting and guest speaker Nate Johnson of North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy. Participants will represent recreational, cultural, enrichment, faith based, or any community organization/business seeking to create a culture of inclusion.