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9912 Pre-Conference Community Training - Inclusive Faith - A Call to Belong
Wednesday, July 12, 2017: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: 103D (Wisconsin Center )
Faith communities often hesitate to include people because they are just not sure how. By 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) will require service professionals to incorporate faith community participation in planning for all individuals with disabilities. This workshop prepares your faith-based community to successfully welcome and include people on the autism spectrum, and other disability diagnoses and family members. This experiential workshop will help you gain confidence and provide inspiration and tools so that you will walk out of the session with an individualized plan for your congregants to implement strategies that will create that welcoming and inclusive environment.
Presenters:
Stephen M. Shore, Ed.D.
Special Education
Adelphi University
Diagnosed with "Atypical Development and strong autistic tendencies" & "too sick" for outpatient treatment Shore was recommended for institutionalization. Non-verbal until four, with support from parents, teachers and his wife, Stephen is now a professor at Adelphi University focusing on matching best practice to needs of autistic individuals.
Elaine Hall
The Miracle Project
International Workshop leader and Keynote Speaker; Media Personality; Pioneer in the field of Inclusion, Autism and the Arts; Consultant to and featured speaker at The United Nations; Created the groundbreaking program Inclusion from WithIn (I Win) for faith-based communities; Founder of The Miracle Project.
Shelly Christensen, MA
Shelly Christensen, MA is a leading faith community inclusion consultant and speaker, author of the new book, From Longing to Belonging: Empowering Faith Communities to Include People with Disabilities and co-founder of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month and the Jewish Leadership Institute on Disabilities and Inclusion.
Lawrence R. Sutton, Ph.D.
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church
Lawrence Sutton is a deacon and psychologist who has worked with teens and young adults with ASD in his Church over the past 14 years and published papers and curriculum on the involvement of ASD adolescents with criminal justice system including methods to proactively prevent such involvement through innovative practices.
