Putting People First

Four Sessions:

• January 16th
• January 30th
• February 6th
• March 5th

All sessions 8:30-1:30

January 16th:

• 40 self-advocates
• Guest speaker Pete Feigal
• Activity to complement what Pete talked about
• Three legs of the self-advocacy stool (personal empowerment, new understanding of disability, social change movement) Overview with PowerPoint presentation and discussion.
• Shelly Madore to speak about legislative issues and need for involvement for pwd in process.

January 30th:

• 20 self-advocates (1/2 of group of 40)
• Process what we learned/talked about at January 16th session
• Melody Martin 9:30-10:30- Three Things We Forget Along the Way
• Personal Empowerment – what is it and how do groups build personal empowerment (assertiveness, know your values)
• New Understanding of Disability (views of disability, how do they change over time and what viewpoints are we promoting?)
• Social Change Movement – (how do we change the world?  One step at a time!)
• Make connections with each of the three legs of the self-advocacy stool to voting, serving on boards and committees, learning from each other, working together for social change, how to choose issues we want to work on, individual advocacy needs versus group advocate issues.)

February 6th:

• Repeat January 30th session with other ½ of group

March 5th:

• Group of 30- combination of folks at last two sessions
• New steps for moving issues forward
• How are we the leaders?  What do we do to promote the three parts of self-advocacy?
• Action steps.  Let’s build leaders by working on issues.
• Our role at the Day at the Capitol (practice, prepare, know the issues)