Self-Directed Supports Network Training

Date:  March 11, 2010

Time:  9:00 am – 3:15 pm

Place:  Kalahari Resort, 1305 Kalahari Drive, Wisconsin Dells, 1-877-525-2427

Self-Directed Supports (SDS) within Family Care, IRIS and CIP are now supporting more than 5500 Wisconsin elders and citizens with disabilities and growing every day! The SDS Network is designed to connect us statewide, regionally and locally. Those connections will enable us to share and learn from everyone’s expertise and experience, to support one another, and to inform and assist others who will receive support and provide support through SDS.

Our focus for the March 11, 2010 Network Forum is on building that Network, particularly at the local level. We have three exciting presenters to help us think about connecting and organizing:

Althea McLuckie coordinates the National Participant Network (NPN) of the National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services (NRCPDS). NPN members help create and improve the participant involvement strategies they use in self-directed models at the state and local level. 

Lynn MacDonald facilitates the Minnesota Self-Directed Participant Network, a grass roots group made up of consumers, caregivers and other interested parties that began working with elders and their caregivers and now supports people of all ages who access Consumer Directed Community Supports

Mike Green provides Asset Based Community Development training and consultation on engaging local communities as partners for collective action. He reminds us that the network building we are doing on behalf of support to people with disabilities is strengthened when we deliberately help it grow within the communities in which we live.

As always, the Network Forum will provide opportunities for meeting, greeting and networking with old and new friends and colleagues living and working with SDS, beginning with coffee and conversation from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The agenda will also include a time for updates and conversation on what is happening with SDS across Wisconsin and your input into how it can work better.

For more information, and to register, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/SDSMarch2010