Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Please find the following upcoming webinars and resources
that might be of interest. Feel free to share with your local networks.
Informational Resources
1)Video Relay Service - Press Release from FCC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted
comprehensive reforms to further protect and strengthen the Video Relay Service
(VRS) program that enables people with disabilities to do what most Americans
take for granted: make a simple phone call. The VRS program permits people with
hearing and speech disabilities to use American Sign Language to communicate with
other individuals over a broadband connection.
2) National Council on Disability - ADA Anniversary Event
The National Council on Disability (NCD) will hold
"Five Years Later - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments
Act of 2008: Impact on Disability Discrimination." The event will
celebrate the ADA and the fifth year following passage of the ADA Amendments
Act (ADAAA) with remarks by congressional, civil rights and business community
champions of the ADAAA.
3)Federal Report - Drop in Proportion of Children in US
Population
The number of children living in the United States
declined slightly, as did the percentage of the U.S. population who are
children, according to the federal government’s annual statistical report on
the well-being of the nation’s children and youth. The report was compiled by
the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
4)Department of Labor - Women Veterans
Web-link: http://www.dol.gov/vets/womenveterans/
The US Department of Labor has launched a new website
focused on issues affecting women veterans. The site highlights potential
challenges that impact women veterans, including:
- Disability: Women veterans are more likely than male
peers to have a significant service-related disability. Thirty-five percent of
women veterans have a disability rating of 50 percent or higher as compared
with 26 percent of male veterans.
- Women veterans experience higher unemployment that male
veterans or non-veteran women
Request for Comments
1)Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Program
Web-link: http://1.usa.gov/15xcnEt
Deadline: September 9, 2013
Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) Program
provides funds to eligible schools to provide scholarships to full-time,
financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled in health
professions and nursing programs. HRSA specifically requests comments on the
necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, the accuracy of the estimated burden,
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected, and the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology to minimize the information collection burden.
2)Assessing the Impact of Training and Technical
Assistance
Web-link: http://1.usa.gov/157S2G4
Deadline: September 9, 2013
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
is seeking approval of Assessing the Impact of Training and Technical
Assistance which will be used by CNCS sponsors of trainings to evaluate the
knowledge gains of participants for the purposes of determining the value of
the TTA investment and to improve the quality of training. Comments are invited
regarding this request.
Webinars
1)Everything You Wanted to Know about the ADA and Transit
but were Afraid to Ask
Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 2:00-3:30pm ET
Registration: To register, please email your name, ZIP
code, phone number, email address, organization, and job title to registration@easterseals.com with "Everything you Wanted to
Know" in the subject line.
Details: In this webinar, find out the answers to the
Americans with Disabilities Act-related questions for fixed-route and
complementary para-transit services. ESPA staff will answer the most common and
the most difficult questions they have received on the ADA related to
fixed-route and ADA complementary para-transit services. Participants will also
be able to ask ESPA staff questions during an extensive Q&A.
2)Disability as Diversity: Including America’s Largest
Diversity Population in Diversity Planning and Practice
Web-link:
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 1:00-1:45pm ET
Details: This session will review the following topics:
The value proposition of diversity; connections to competitive advantage and
organizational success; Diversity efforts: Why is disability often left out?;
About the numbers: Our largest diversity population; Disability Is Diversity:
Workplace connections and strategies; Disability Is Diversity: Customer/market
issues and strategies; Disability Is Diversity: Supplier diversity and
strategies; Case study applications and
Closing: What strategies make sense to you?
Yours in Service,
Jason Wheeler, Roxy Rocker, Paula Sotnik and Katie
Entigar
Ways to connect with us:
Toll-free number: 1-888-491-0326
Email: nsip@umb.edu
Website: www.serviceandinclusion.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/NSIP_Online
Resources obtained from the UCEDD Resource Center, a
project of AUCD, in partnership with ADD, to strengthen and support the network
of UCEDDs.
Please note that the content contained in this News,
Notes and Resources does not imply endorsement from the Corporation for
National and Community Service, the National Service Inclusion Project, or any
of our partner agencies.
The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is a
training and technical assistance provider on disability inclusion, under a
cooperative agreement (#08TAHMA001) from the 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 between disability organizations and all CNCS grantees, including
national directs, to increase the participation of people with disabilities in
national service.
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