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Making Your Case - How To Effectively Educate Legislators and Policy Makers
Friday, July 15, 2016: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
Studio 4 (New Orleans Marriott)
Making your case is the best guide on how to approach local, state or national policymakers and how to work within the system to effect change. originally created by the partners in policy making program and the Minnesota governor's council on developmental disabilities, IT is the standard in legislative advocacy.
Making Your Case is designed to help people advocate for positive changes in public policies that impact people with developmental disabilities and their families. It is designed for:
- Self-advocates
- Parents and family members of children and adults with developmental disabilities
- Direct care workers
- Service providers
- Professionals working in fields related to disability services.
Making Your Case teaches the critical skills you need to be an effective advocate. After you have completed this course, you will:
- Understand how public policy is made and who makes it;
- Understand the advocacy process and apply it to your situation;
- Be able to tell your story in writing and in person;
- Know how to identify the policymakers who can help bring about the changes you need;
- Write effective letters and e-mails;
- Conduct meetings with policymakers;
- Give effective testimony and answer questions; and
- Organize with others to tackle community issues.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine ways to advocate or lobby your elected officials effectively.
- Discover ways to appropriately address policy makers and explains the do's and don't's of advocacy.
Track: Public Policy/Advocacy
Content Area: National Advocacy
Presenters:
Sarah Sequenzia
Parent Liaison for Orange Public Schools in Orlando, Florida
ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Parent liaison with Orange County Public Schools for the past 15 years. A graduate of Partners in Policy Making, and current member of the State Advisory Committee for ESE, in Florida. She has 4 children, a son including Aspergers Syndrome, a daughter with intellectual disabilities and step-daughter with autism.
Ven Sequenzia Jr.
President, Autism Society of Florida
Autism Society of Florida
Served as co-chair of the State Advisory Committee for ESE, Governor's Task Force for Autism, Chair of Sup. Advisory Panel for ESE in Miami, FL., President of the Autism Society of Florida, Has an adult daughter with autism and 3 step-children (son with aspergers syndrome and daughter with intellectual disabilities.