The Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities is gearing up to prepare Indiana’s State Disability Plan for 2012-2016. The completed plan will be used to guide the work of the Council, including its training and dissemination activities, the events it sponsors, and the projects it funds.
Here is your chance to participate in the process! The Council is arranging two ways you can add your voice to the planning process.
1. TOWN MEETINGS
The Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities has commissioned the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community to assist them in facilitating eight Town Meetings across the state to gather ideas from individuals with disabilities and family members about the priorities that should be addressed in the upcoming State Disability Plan.
The Town Meetings will be held in the early evening in these places on these dates – please sign up and register for the one you would like to attend. Be sure to fill out a separate RSVP for each person wishing to participate
Evansville Town Meeting: Monday, October 18th Please register at http://www.cwlab.org/ BEFORE NOON on Friday, October 15.
Evansville Town Meeting
Monday, October 18th
6:00 – 8:30 p.m. CENTRAL TIME
Deaconess Health Sciences Building – Johnson Hall
600 Edgar St.
Evansville, IN 47710
Gary / Merrillville Town Meeting: Monday, October 25th Please be sure to register BEFORE NOON on Friday, October 22nd.
South Bend Town Meeting: Tuesday, October 26th Please be sure to register BEFORE NOON on Friday, October 22nd.
Richmond Town Meeting : Monday, November 8th
New Albany / Clarksville Town Meeting: Monday, November 15th
Completed Town Meetings
Indianapolis Town Meeting: Monday, August 30th – Report of Findings is now available.
Fort Wayne Town Meeting: Monday, September 20th – Report of Findings is now available.
Terre Haute Town Meeting: Wednesday, September 29th – Report of Findings is now available.
Town Meeting Topics
At each Town Meeting, there will be “Table Talks†designed to gather ideas about issues of concern to the participants, especially focusing on potential solutions. When you register for a Town Meeting, you’ll also be asked to indicate your TOP THREE topic choices – we will try to assign you to a table dealing with one of your three choices. Your choices plus those of others attending the same Town Meeting are also tallied to determine which 5-6 of the possible table topics will be selected for that Town Meeting.
The ten topics are as follows:
Education (Prekindergarten – 8th grade)
Education (9th grade – Post High School)
Employment
Housing
Transportation
Leadership Development
Service Systems and Quality Assurance
Community Participation and Access
Health Care
Long Term Care and Supports
2. STATEWIDE SURVEY
This year’s Disability Poll will focus on “Priorities and Solutions†for addressing issues of importance to the disability community in Indiana. Information from this survey will be used in the development of Indiana’s State Disability Plan. People with disabilities, family members, and advocates are invited to share their ideas in this survey.
Stay tuned for the start-up of this survey in September!
The Disability Poll is conducted annually through a collaboration among Indiana’s Developmental Disabilities (DD) Network: the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities, the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services, and the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community.
Questions about the Town Meetings or the Statewide Survey?
Vicki Pappas
Center for Planning and Policy Studies
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
2853 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2696
Toll Free: (800) 825-4733
Phone: (812) 855-6508
TT: (812) 855-9396
E-mail: cpps@indiana.edu
