New Events at the Center on Aging and Community
Emergency & Disaster Planning Publication
I am Citizen Prepared is a publication for people with disabilities and the people who support them. Emergency preparedness is a topic that is on the minds of many Americans these days in light of the 9-11 tragedy and subsequent terrorist attacks all over the world. There is much written about the subject, but not in a format that is accessible to people with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
I am Citizen Prepared is designed to provide information that does not focus on the scary aspect of disasters and emergencies. It offers the reader suggestions on how to prepare oneself in the event that an emergency does arise. The reader is encouraged to think of emergency preparedness as a project rather than a reaction to an unexpected and frightening event.
I am Citizen Prepared is 49 pages on 8.5 x 11 paper and opens with Adobe Acrobat - Download
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Creative Callings: Arts-Related Work and Disabilities
A free guide to online career resources for people in Indiana is now available in both a glare-free Adobe .pdf file as well as a printer-friendly .pdf file .
Download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
New Poster Series Available now!
Voice of the People
The Voice of the People poster series highlights common concerns and wishes of people with disabilities told in their own voices.
For more information, further description, and an order form, download the Poster Flyer in Adobe .pdf format or go to the posters page and use the order form.
Home Modification Report Published
We at the Center on Aging and Community are excited to announce the completion of the home modification report ( Warning: need PDF reader Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file).
If you're even more curious, you might check out our resources page for more online resources about this subject - just go to the list labelled "home modification."
“A community, if it is to last, must exert a kind of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place.”
Wendell Berry
The Center on Aging and Community collaborated with multiple units of the university to sponsor and coordinate a series of academic and public events that explored the relationships between memory and place and identified how memories and remembering, as a civic engagement process, benefit individuals and communities.
Held in Bloomington February 22-23, the workshop brought together a unique assemblage of humanists, social scientists, community-based practitioners, information scientists and the local community to explore how new technologies can help sustain individual and community memory.
For a complete description of events, visit the workshop blog at www.puttingmemoryinplace.blogspot.com.