| | ACT Training Kit: "Changing Attitudes"
Interact Theatre Company is back, turning those tired old attitudes about disability inside out! Written and performed by actors with developmental and other disabilities, we see a darkly comic view of these persistent stereotypes: the eternal child...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Get On Board This Train to Freedom: Understanding the Civil Rights View of Disability"
Part 3 of a three-part training series designed to advance disability rights, where participants learn to recognize and respond to the competing views of disability withing society.
The civil rights view of disability focuses on how society has fa...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Getting Organized"
In 1994, a group of activists with disabilities discovered an institution cemetery with numbered graves. They were deeply upset. From this experience a project evolved, seeking to honor and remember those who died anonymously as wards of the state....
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| | ACT Training Kit: "I Am A Leader: Youth Leadership Development Program"
This Pre-Transition and Transition Program is designed to be used by teachers, self-advocacy outreach efforts in schools or clubs, CIL transition programs and after school programs. A perfect resource for any group working with kids!
* Everyth...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "I Am a Person First! Understanding the Value of Values"
* Package of concrete strategies for strengthening values-based work efforts.
* Step-by-step methods give you everything you need to lead a high quality and professional workshop that participants will remember!
* Perfect for staff in-service ...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Leading Change"
Two warnings about "leadership": It doesn't fit into five easy-to-follow instructions, and it doesn't last when used only from the top down. Within self-advocacy, the most effective style of leadership is grassroots leadership, with group members bu...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Leading from the Middle: Developing Leadership in Your Group"
* Explore leadership from within the disability community.
* Lead your group through a process that connects and clarifies ideas for real social change on the grassroots level.
* Everything you need to present a professional workshop that inform...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "My Choice, Your Decision"
My Choice, Your Decision uses the acclaimed talents of Interact Theatre Company to illustrate the often hilarious differences between new fads in providing services to people with disabilities and what people really want for themselves. Comprising a...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Saints, Sinners and Special People: Understanding the Moral View of Disability"
Part 1 of a three-part training series designed to advance disability rights, where participants learn to recognize and respond to the competing views of disability within society.
The moral viewpoint sees people with disabilities as morally diffe...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All"
Is self-advocacy really a civil rights movement? Discover the connections from disability to broader social justice movements, including Gay Liberation, the Women's Movement, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's, and the larger disabil...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Shaking Off Stereotypes"
Activist Joy Mincey Powell plays Samantha, a young woman with low self-confidence. Everyone Sam meets tells her she's not qualified, she can't do the job, because her disability is too great an obstacle. When she begins to trust her instincts and m...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Sticks and Stones"
Sticks and Stones, the award-winning documentary on the origins of the self-advocacy movement in Minnesota, has been re-edited to a 30-minute version, perfect for the classroom or workshop. Learn about self-advocacy as activists and allies look back...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "The Patient Needs Fixing: Understanding the Medical View of Disability"
Part 2 of a three-part training series designed to advance disability rights, where participants learn to recognize and respond to the competing views of disability within society.
The medical/professional view sees disability as a physical proble...
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| | ACT Training Kit: "Tools for Change"
Below is a list of training materials from Advocating Change Together, Inc. For more information on a specific kit, check out the ACT web site (listed below).
Item #001 Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
Item #002 Shak...
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| | Association of Residential Resources in Minnesota (ARRM)
The Association of Residential Resources in Minnesota (ARRM) is a non-profit voluntary association of providers of residential and support services to Minnesota citizens with developmental disabilities. ARRM promotes and facilitates the advancement o...
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| | College of Direct Support - Great training at a great price!
The College of Direct Support is an interactive, Internet-based learning system for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). The College offers "training opportunities that deepen and enhance your extremely important roles as caregivers, teachers, mento...
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| | Community Supports for People with Disabilities -- Two-year degree program
The Community Supports for People with Disabilities AAS degree and diploma majors are designed to train individuals to provide residential, vocational, or educational supports to people with disabilities in their communities. They emphasize building ...
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| | Cornucopia Of Disability Information (CODI)
CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. CODI has two main functions. First, it is a huge internet directory of disability information. Through CODI, you'll ...
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| | Direct Support Professional Assocation of Minnesota
DSPAM is made up of volunteers from across the state of Minnesota embracing the mission and goals of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP). The mission of DSPAM is that of promoting the development of a highly competent and p...
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| | Direct Support Professionals Web Site!
This web site contains practical information and great resources for individuals who provide supports and services to persons with disabilities. Whether you call yourself a residential counselor, personal care attendant, job coach, life coach, prog...
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| | MN Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Governor's Council's mission is to work toward assuring that people with developmental disabilities receive the necessary support to achieve increased independence, self determination, productivity, integration and inclusion into the community. ...
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| | National Institute for Residential Resources and Training (NIRRT)
This organization, based in Saint Paul, offers a variety of cutting-edge trainings for disability professionals. Topics range from specific disabilities to broader issues, such as medications, legal matters, and risk management plans. Click below to ...
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| | People Responding In Social Ministry (PRISM)
PRISM is a social service agency that provides families with food, financial assistance, transportation, auto repair and other services in times of financial hardships.
Food Shelf Program
PRISM’s unique grocery-store-style food s...
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| | Program Development Associates -- Ideas, Traning & Solutions for Professionals
This company provides a wealth of educational resources for today's disability professional. The catalog is packed with training videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs, books, and more. Use the link below to access PDA's web site, which features an online catalog. ...
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| | Quality Mall
Quality Mall has a great collection of information about person-centered supports for people with disabilities. Quality Mall is made up of many different "stores," such as the Family Place, the Government Center, or the Housing Office. In their div...
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| | The Council on Quality and Leadership
This extensive organization seeks to improve quality of life programs so that they are based on results - how people's lives are really affected. The Council on Quality and Leadership goes about this goal with a range of activities, including accred...
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| | The National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP)
This national coalition is designed for and by Direct Support Professionals, with the goal of enhancing the status of DSPs and improving the lives of people with disabilities. Visit their web site to learn about their activities, and how to join.
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