NSIP Friendly Webinar Reminder - May 15, 2012

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NSIP Webinar Announcement- Addressing Diversity and Disability: A Discussion of Improving Systems-Level Cultural Competency for National Service Programs

Date: May 15th, 2012

Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm EST (2:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Mountain, 12:00 PM Pacific)

As the diversity of participants in national service programs grows both locally and nationally, what practices are you using to engage historically underrepresented groups? When conducting outreach and recruitment to these populations, how do you approach including people with disabilities from diverse groups? In order to discuss these questions, The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) will host Dr. Nicholas Montalto and Dr. Rooshey Hasnain, authors of “Systems Change for Greater Cultural Competence in the Pennsylvania Disability Service and Support Sector,” in a one and a half hour webinar presentation on diversity and disability. Joining them for this presentation will be Patience Lehrman, National Director of Project Shine, an innovative national service program that received the prestigious E Pluribus Unum Award of the Migration Policy Institute in 2011. On April 26th, 2012, Ms. Lehrman met with President Obama to discuss her work in reaching out to isolated immigrant communities.

This discussion includes a “reexamination of current practices in disability service delivery systems and the development of innovative and culturally and linguistically sensitive approaches to reducing disparities in service delivery outcomes” and making applicable for your service or volunteer program ten principles underlying the design and development of a culturally and linguistically competent disability system (Montalto & Hasnain, 2011, p. 9).

Specifically, attendees will be able to apply to their programs the following presentation content:

-an introduction to their study of cultural competence

-10 principles that contribute to a cultural competent program -profile of a program -audience discussion and Q&A

If you would like to see Dr. Montalto and Dr. Hasnain’s complete, published research, it is available through the following link: http://www.paddc.org/images/stories/pdfs/systems_change_for_greater_cultural_competence_in_pa_disability_service_sector.pdf.

To register for this event, please email Roxy.Rocker@umb.edu by 12:00 PM EST on Monday, May 14th with the following info:

-Name

-Organization

-Email

-Phone

-If you require CART* to participate, please also indicate that in your email.

Please note: We will send out confirmation emails by Monday afternoon, May 14th with instructions on how to sign into the web conference.

*CART service provides instantaneous translation of the speech text using real-time software. Teleconference participants receive caption services over the web. This is an accommodation we provide to participants who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is training and technical assistance provider on disability inclusion, under a cooperative agreement (#08TAHMA001) from Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). NSIP partners with the Association on University Centers on Disability, National Council on Independent Living, Association on Higher Education and Disability and National Down Syndrome Congress to build connections among disability organizations and all CNCS grantees, to increase the participation of people with disabilities in national service.