[nfbwatlk] FW: [rehab] Fwd: Leadership Development Initiative

[Nightingale, Noel]

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Subject: [rehab] Fwd: Leadership Development Initiative


>
> >>> Chuk Hamilton 2/20/2008 9:46 AM >>>
>The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) 
>through the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) is sponsoring 
>a Leadership Development Initiative. Under this initiative, Rocky 
>Mountain Technical Assistance and Consulting Center (RMTACC) and Dan 
>Hopkins & Associates, Inc., (DHA), through a grant with RSA, will 
>organize and conduct a National Training Workshop for New Leadership 
>Development for individuals with disabilities in culturally diverse 
>communities. The workshop will train a cadre of grass root individuals,

>who themselves have disabilities, to work with representatives of 
>culturally diverse entities on issues concerning people with 
>disabilities. The trainees will also work with community-based 
>organizations serving individuals with disabilities from underserved 
>populations.
>Subsequent to the training, the workshop participants will be expected 
>to perform assertive outreach and advocacy in their communities to 
>increase the interest and involvement of culturally diverse entities as

>active participants in the rehabilitation system and with competitions 
>for grants, contracts and cooperative agreements funded under Titles I 
>through VII of the Rehabilitation Act.
>
>Please circulate this email and attachment far and wide. We as well as 
>other organizations have been asked nominate eligible individuals for 
>this initiative. Individuals who wish to be nominated should contact 
>me. Thanks!
>
>Chuk Hamilton, Director
>Minnesota State Services for the Blind
>2200 University Avenue W. #240
>St. Paul, MN 55114-1840
>Phone (651) 642-0512
>Toll free (800) 652-9000
>Fax (651) 649-5927
>E-mail: <mailto:chuk.hamilton at state.mn.us>chuk.hamilton at state.mn.us

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