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How To Create "Win-Win" Relationships With Our Faith Communities (#6589)


Thursday, July 11, 2013: 1:30 PM-2:45 PM
316 (David L. Lawrence Convention Center)
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This presentation will address how to work with faith communities to foster relationships that bless individuals and families impacted by autism and the faith communities. Review obstacles to positive relationships within faith communities. Learn about a "pathway to progress" for "win-win" partnerships to meet the needs of those impacted by autism. Additionally, learn about the Autism Society’s new Spirituality and Autism Working Group, created to help foster nurturing partnership among religious leaders, congregations, and individuals and families touched by autism. This presentation will address how to work with faith communities to foster relationships that bless not only individuals and families impacted by autism, but also faith communities themselves. Review potential obstacles to positive relationships within faith communities.  Learn about a "pathway to progress" for encouraging "win-win" partnerships with faith communities in order to better meet the needs of individuals and family members impacted by autism. Additionally, learn about the Autism Society’s new Spirituality and Autism Working Group, created to help foster nurturing partnerships between religious leaders, congregations, and individuals and families touched by autism.
Presenters:

Stephanie Hubach
Director
MNA Special Needs Ministries
Stephanie Hubach serves as Special Needs Ministries Director at the Presbyterian Church in America, and is the author of Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability (2006) and All Things Possible: Calling Your Church Leadership to Disability Ministry (2007).

Emily Colson
Author, Speaker
Emily Colson Ministries
Emily Colson, author of the award-winning book Dancing with Max, speaks to churches and organizations across the country and has appeared on numerous media outlets. Emily shares a message of hope and joy in the midst of single parenting her 22-year-old son with autism.

Shannon Royce
President and CEO
ChosenFamilies.Org
Shannon Royce is President & CEO of ChosenFamilies.org, a ministry to families living with hidden disabilities, including ASD. She is an attorney by training and has served in public policy advocacy for almost 30 years. She is wife to Bill, Mom to two teenage sons, a cancer survivor and marathoner.

Lisa Simmons
Author
Lisa Simmons is the author of I Would Have Said Yes: A Family’s Journey with Autism, has taught in both private and public schools, and has worked with teenagers with learning disabilities. Lisa also assists her husband in his role on the national Board of Directors for the ASA.

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