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Community Organizing Will You Be Run Over By Public Transportation? Where: Sierra II - Curtis Hall, 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818 When: Saturday August 13, 2011 From 9:00 am to 3:00 pm For reservations, call Chris Jensen (916) 446-3074 ext. 201 Sponsored By: Coalition on Regional Equity, Resources for Independent Living, Gamaliel Foundation Facilitated By : Mary Gonzales, Founder and Director of Gamaliel of CA Lunch will be provided A Training on Equity and Power Topics to include: Power and it's relationship to faith and values Self-Interest: the motivation that inspires and moves us One-on-ones: a Tool for building relationships and uncovering self-interest Elements of a Power Organization Call 72 hours for accommodations The Arc and UCP CA Collaboration Alert:
To assist in maximum participation, we have put together this little survey so you can complete it and we will deliver to your legislators (make sure to at least enter your zip code) in the hearing room. Take the survey here. It is possible that the budget committee will still be in session and could bump our hearing. We have a plan B but this survey could also come in handy in getting your input into your policymaker. The Lanterman Act in 2011 and Beyond Come and deliver a message to policymakers with your testimony. Your voice and your face will tell policymakers why the Lanterman Act is so important to our community and why so many of us oppose changing it from the current individualized personal approach to the proposed set standardization model. Opening Remarks Senator Carol Liu, Chair, Senate Human Services Committee Other members The Lanterman Act: Past, Present, Future Michal Clark, Director, Kern Regional Center Community Services Consumer - TBD The Individual Program Plan and Purchase of Service Best Practices Catherine Blakemore, Executive Director, Disability Rights California Catherine McCoy, Service Coordinator, San Andreas Regional Center Rocio Smith, Executive Director, Area Board V Steve Miller, Executive Director, Tierra del Sol Foundation Accountability, Transparency and Beyond – Implementation of the 2011 DDS Trailer Bill Jim Burton, Director, Regional Center of the Easy Bay Doug Pascover, Executive Director, Arriba Independent Living Services Nancy Chance, Executive Director, Training Toward Self-Reliance Audit Updates Terri Delgadillo, Director, Department of Developmental Services Elaine Howle, State Auditor, Bureau of State Audits Carol Fitzbiggons, Director, Inland Regional Center Vicki Smith, Executive Director, Area Board XII Public Comment & Concluding Remarks March 5, 2011 (posted January 14, 2011) Join Us Saturday March 5, 2011 at the Embassy Suites Hotel 100 Capitol Mall, Sacramento for a powerful one day training to learn the foundations for community advocacy organizing. To register for this training event and our Public Policy Conference visit our site for the Board Meetings and Events at Community Organizing Training with Mary Gonzales, or just register for the organizing advocacy training below: Saturday March 5, 2011 8:30 am – 3:00 pm......................................................................Community Advocacy Organizing Training – Mary Gonzales
This will be a day long training with parents, self-advocates, and provider advocates, and other supporters to look into the power of our community, the potential of the use of that power, and how we build on it and put it into action. This will be the first of several trainings throughout the state as we work to “take back the Act” by supporting and cultivating the leaders in our community today. Our system will be different in 5 years and 10 years the question is who will re-write it? This training is state of the art modern organizing based on historically proven models that will work to support our constituents in rebuilding our grassroots organization and impacting public policy. This training will feature Mary Gonzales, Western Region Director of the Gamaliel Foundation, an international community organizing foundation that helps people organize and have a voice in today's political environments. Mary began organizing professionally in 1980. Prior to that she was a highly recognized leader in a community organization in Chicago that won many significant campaigns for the immigrant residents of the community. Prior to assuming her role in California, she was the founding director of the Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations, a regional organization in the Chicago area that has successfully brought together a diversity of faith communities representing many races, income levels and cultures. MAC has led powerful campaigns that are building the political will to end inequity in how public and private resources are distributed in the Chicago metropolitan area. Mary is a National Staff member of the Gamaliel Foundation and one of its primary trainers. She trains at all the Gamaliel Foundation training events and often travels to Gamaliel affiliated organizations to train. Mary Gonzales and her brother, an individual with a developmental disability, were raised and mentored by their mother a very powerful organizer who created an agency for people with disabilities in their local Chicago community. She is Mexican-American, a Chicago native, a resident of the Pilsen community in Chicago, and mother of four daughters. October 2009  The Arc of California Contracts with the Gamaliel Foundation to Retool its Organizing SkillsThe Arc of California, the state’s oldest and largest membership association of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, has made a major re-commitment to its grassroots advocacy history by partnering with the Gamaliel Foundation. “We are undertaking a serious shift in our advocacy from allowing policymakers and the professionals we hire to workout what’s best for us to taking the Lanterman Act back for our sons and daughters of today and for the children with disabilities to come” Dwight Stratton, parent and President of The Arc of California. Gamaliel is an international social justice organizing foundation that strongly believes that “the greatest advances in this country came when we broadened the diversity of those who sit at the decision making tables.” People with developmental disabilities and their families have been away from the table too long and they are ready to take their seat, in fact some of them will bring their own chairs! Click here to learn more about Gamaliel. The Arc of California views its new work with Gamaliel as essential in fighting for public policy decisions that honor the state’s promise of the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act that assist all people with developmental disabilities in achieving full participation in our California communities. Our role as The Arc in California is to productively impact every issue that leads to respect and full participation of all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in our state and nation and now our training with Gamaliel will assist us in how we go about organizing and galvanizing our constituents for action. While we fight to ensure a comprehensive statewide system of services and supports we require this system to honor local control, recognize the unique needs of each individual, and respect and support each individual and their families in their self-determined destiny. |
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