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Audio Podcast: Building Leadership Series for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

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Select the play icon, to learn more about the Institute's Center on Aging and Community's Building Leadership Series for adults with disabilities.

Podcast Script: Greetings and welcome to the Indiana Institute’s in the spotlight podcast. This Podcast focuses the 2010 training schedule for the Building Leadership Series. There are approximately 76,000 adults with developmental disabilities in Indiana. Despite improvements in community-based services, many adults remain unable to reach their full potential as participating citizens due to barriers such as poverty, education, health, service delivery, or public attitude. To address these issues, the Indiana Institute’s Center on Aging and Community offers a training series of three two-day workshops over a three –month period designed to build skills in personal choice, self-determination, and person-centered planning for adults with disabilities.

With funding support from the Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities and Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services, the Building Leadership Series (BLS) is now in its fourth year and has had 54 participants graduate from the program.

The series is presented by staff from the Center along with persons with disabilities. The curriculum provides a mix of interactive activities, video, discussion, role-play, and lecture. Evaluative data is compiled through a pre and post assessment given to attendees. BLS graduates return home with leadership skills that are useful for making better personal choices, being more engaged in their community, and taking more control of their own lives.

The BLS funds up to 20 participants. Funding includes meals, overnights, attendant care as needed, and a $60.00 attendance stipend to offset lost wages. Participants are required to commit to the entire series of workshops and have the necessary staff or family support to attend and/or cover their personal business (work/appointments) while they are away.

The training dates for BLS are September 22-23, October 20-21, and November 10-11, 2010 and will be held at the Convention Center in Bloomington, Indiana. For more information, contact Jennie Todd at (812) 855-6508 or e-mail her at jeptodd@indiana.edu. Visit CAC's website for more information.