Advanced Directives for Health Care: Your Choices, Your Life - You've Got the Power!
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern
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Aging and End of Life Webinar Series
Sponsored By AAIDD - AUCD - The Arc of the US - ANCOR - AAIDD Gerontology Division - UIC RRTC on Aging & DD
No Registration Fees - You Pay Your Ordinary Telephone Charges
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Time
Moderator: Doreen Croser, Executive Director, AAIDD
Topic: Advanced Directives for Health Care: Your Choices, Your Life - You've Got the Power!
Speakers:
- Tia Nelis, Self-Advocacy Specialist at Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, Institute of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Tia Nelis was the past chairperson of the National Organization Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered. She founded People First of Illinois and has successfully promoted People First. Ms. Nelis has served as president of People First of Illinois and Naperville. She was honored with the Burton Blatt Award by the Illinois TASH and the Elizabeth Boggs award from AARR. Ms. Nelis has wide experience conducting training and advocating for progressive polices with legislators and public officials.
- Stacy Yusim, MA, Training Manager, Equip for Equality
- Stacy Yusim joined Equip for Equality in 2002 as the Training Institute Manager. Her responsibilities include planning and managing the policies, strategies and program content of the Training Institute for Disability Rights. Ms. Yusim has a MA degree in Human Performance & Training from Governors State University. Her experience includes over twenty years creating, managing and evaluating training programs for people with disabilities.
Webinar Description:
People with disabilities will learn about advanced health directives including:
- What are advanced health care directives
- How the importance of everyday choices relates to advanced health care directives
- Why creating an advanced health care directive is another way to be a self-advocate
- The different kinds of forms available
- The different ways to create their own advanced directives
- Examples of what detailed choices other people have made
- Using a process to start thinking about the supports and the people they would want involved
- Access to a lawyer to help make the directive legal
Target Audience: Self-Advocates
Future Webinars- Mark you calenders!!
When: 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Time:1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
April 21, 2010: End of Life Through a Cultural Lens
Speaker: Tawara Goode, MA, Associate Director Georgetown UCEDD, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
April 21 will be the final webinar in this series. Thank you for your interest!
What's a webinar?
A webinar is a live meeting that takes place over the web. Webinars consist of a PowerPoint presentation, with the speaker discussing the presentation just as he or she would at a conference presentation. During a webinar, however, the presentation is remote and the participants cannot see the speaker. Participants in different locations "login" to the meeting host (in this case, GoToWebinar) via their computers and watch the presentation on their screens. The audio portion of the meeting is via telephone on the conference call number provided in the registration confirmation. Some webinars are one-directional (meaning the attendees watch passively); others are more interactive, where attendees interact with the moderator, each other, and/or the documents being viewed. AAIDD webinars are all minimally interactive, giving participants a chance to ask questions of renowned presenters they may not have a chance to meet otherwise. Participants can use the webinar toolbox on their screen to type questions to the presenter. It is most helpful to participants to log in to the webinar and call into the conference line several minutes in advance of the start time, to ensure everything is working properly before the webinar begins.
