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6th Annual Fashion Show for All Abilities

Join us on the evening of Friday, June 1, 2012 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center for the 6th Annual Fashion Show for All Abilities!

Call for Volunteers!

Go HERE and follow the prompts to register.

Infoshare: Communication Works
(for those who work at it!)

Infoshare: Communication Works!

Date and Time:
Friday, March 9, 2012
8:30 AM - 2:45 PM

Conference Location:

Sheraton Madison Hotel
706 John Nolen Dr
Madison, WI 53713

 

Registration Fee: $10 per person. Self-Advocates and support staff are encouraged to attend together. Registration fee includes morning breakfast break, lunch and materials

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Click here for the complete brochure (PDF, 757 KB)

Communication Works (for those who work at it!)
Join us to learn how better communication can enhance community membership and inclusion, independence, and self-advocacy for people with developmental disabilities. Support providers and self-advocates: come and learn how to better communicate within your teams, with those in the medical community, policy-makers and more! Encore Studio for the Performing Arts will kick off the event with a thoughtful piece titled Communication Supreme, followed by discussion.

Sessions (schedule subject to change)

  • Waisman WIN: How to Effectively Communicate with Your Doctor
  • Waisman Center Communication Development Program (CDP): Using AAC to Enhance Self Advocacy and Self Determination: Why? What? How? and iPads for Greater Independence
  • Melissa Mulliken: Advocacy and how to reach legislators/policy makers
  • Community TIES: How to communicate within teams, and effective mediation tools
  • Deb Wisniewski: Get Connected Online! The Internet provides us with lots of opportunities to get connected. Join us as we explore ways to safely meet and connect with people to learn about issues that affect us, and to share our ideas, our resources and our questions.
  • Gerard Gierl: Helping you to better understand your rights even when under guardianship, and be better able to express your needs / wishes to guardians and/or parents

People who have their own micro-enterprise and artists are encouraged to display and sell their work at one of the vendor tables.

Program Questions:

Contact Rachel Weingarten, Coordinator
Phone: 608-890-0777
Email: weingarten@waisman.wisc.edu

Registration Questions:

Contact James Mulder
Phone: 608-265-9440 ext. 440
Email: comm.training@waisman.wisc.edu

InfoShare is a gathering of people with developmental disabilities, their friends and families and those who work for and with them. It is a place of learning, of sharing, of telling stories, of listening to one another, of renewing old friendships and making new ones. Join us for a day of learning, seeing old friends and fun activities!

InfoShare is sponsored by the UW-Madison Waisman Center Community Training and Consultation Program, Dane County Human Services and Group Health Cooperative - South Central Wisconsin.

Taste of Dane County

An Orientation to Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Dane County

6 Continuing Education Hours for Social Workers

Location: Community Outreach Wisconsin: 122 E. Olin Ave., Ste. 100, Madison WI 53713

Registration Fee: $15 per person

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The Taste of Dane County is a great overview of the Dane County Adult Developmental Disability System and is especially relevant for new agency staff and brokers. Others such as direct caregivers, service coordinators, and case managers will also find the information useful. The goal is to offer information designed to promote sensitivity and insight into the lives of persons with developmental disabilities. Participants will learn from presentations, small group activities, and informal discussions with individuals who have disabilities and their families.

Morning Agenda

  • An Overview of Developmental Disabilities
  • Philosophy and Description of Services in Dane County
  • Overview of Health Considerations and Healthy Living
  • Dane County Abuse/Neglect Policies

Afternoon Agenda

  • Communication: The Key to Self-Direction & Full Community Membership
  • Panel: Consumers of Services, Family Members
  • Wrap Up/ Questions

Additional Resources

The Self Determination or Self-Directed Supports (SDS) program for adults with developmental disabilities is how Dane County provides services for consumers who have an individual budget and a Support Broker. For more information, visit: http://cow.waisman.wisc.edu/sds.html

Presenters

Monica Bear is the Developmental Disabilities Program Manager for Dane County Adult Services.

Julie Gamradt is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) by background and the director of the Communication Aids & Systems Clinic (CASC) and the Communication Development Program (CDP), the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) service programs at the Waisman Center.

Maya Fairchild is the mandated contact for Dane County contracted residential and vocational service provider agencies when abuse is suspected.

Paul White has extensive experience in supporting children and adults with developmental disabilities and has been on staff at the UW Waisman Center since 1986. Paul is the director of the program Community TIES. TIES provides positive supports to persons with developmental disabilities and emotional/behavioral challenges. Paul has developed a series of seminars on subjects related to positive behavioral supports.

Representatives from Waisman WIN (Wellness Inclusion Nursing) Program: WIN nurses serve as consultants to residential and vocational team members, families and health care providers focusing on restoring, maintaining and promoting maximal health and independence for adults with developmental disabilities so they can achieve the best life possible.