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Welcome to the 2021 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition website!

Each year, the TASH Conference brings together individuals with significant disabilities and their allies to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The conference is attended by passionate advocates, leaders, and subject matter experts from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees play an important role in supporting individuals with significant disabilities to overcome various barriers in order to live their best lives. Central to this work is the premise that individuals reach their optimal potential only when they are given the opportunity to live, work and thrive across the lifespan in the same communities we are all members of. The Conference is intentionally designed to support the interests of professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; home and community-based service providers; students, family members, and most importantly, self-advocates with lived experience.

This year, while we are taking the Conference virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that our unique approach to providing exceptional first-rate content and building strong community ties and connections across various stakeholders will yield an extraordinary event! We have taken extra steps to bring people closer together during these times, as well as to create an amazing virtual environment that expands our knowledge and spurs our creative thinking into action!  Our Conference theme, Celebrating Community and Connections, reminds us of the value of gathering together as a diverse community to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion for all!

Need technical assistance during the conference? Please email our support staff at helpdesk@tash.org.

The 2021 TASH Conference is dedicated to TASH co-founder, Dr. Lou Brown. Learn more about Lou’s impact and legacy to the disability rights movement here.

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Thursday, December 2 • 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Building An Inclusive Workforce

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Does your workforce reflect your organization’s mission? Many agencies have incorporated self-advocates into their advisory boards and human rights committees, but have you truly embedded people with I/DD into your administrative and frontline teams? Join this session and learn about one agency’s journey to walk their talk, braiding person-centered and employment first practices into an innovative approach to tackling the DSP workforce crisis: the DSP Academy, an ACL Blazing New Trails for Community-Based DSPs Challenge Round 1 Challenge Winner (Round 2 is ongoing). We’ll share replicable inclusive training models, how to use aspects of customized employment within your own agency's hiring process, and the connection between person-centered practices and an inclusive workforce. We will talk about what it takes, at the state level, to support an inclusive workforce. And, we will leave time to hear about how you are innovatively working to address the DSP workforce crisis.
Presenters
avatar for Susan Brooks

Susan Brooks

Chief Innovation Officer, RCM of Washington
avatar for Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

Co Vice-President, Project ACTION!
Robert Kennedy, Jr., is a strong self-advocate and has served in several leadership roles during the almost 30 years he has been a member of Project ACTION! He is the current Co-Vice President of Project ACTION! Robert graduated from the DC Advocacy Partners Class of 2013 and has... Read More →
avatar for Erin Leveton

Erin Leveton

Director, Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services, LLC

Thursday December 2, 2021 12:15pm - 1:00pm EST
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