Outreach Grantee: SHHH
July 19, 2002
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH)Location
Specific sites to be determined. Activities will take place in all five regional clusters.
Program Summary
SHHH will implement an outreach program targeted at people with hearing loss. They will use their chapters to disseminate information about national service programs and encourage people to engage in national service. Ten regional national service directors' training seminars will give program staff proven techniques on how to work with people with hearing loss including the needs and requirements of communication accessibility and appropriate assistive technology. SHHH will develop fact sheets, educational pamphlets, and PSAs and will create a dedicated website. Chapters in concert with national service programs will recruit volunteers to participate in the National Day of Hearing Screening, a national hearing health awareness program.
Goals
- Encourage
and engage people with hearing loss in national service volunteer
activities.
- Recruit volunteers from Corporation for National Service programs to participate in an existing SHHH National Day of Hearing Screening (NDHS).
Activities
- Promote
national service programs on the SHHH website, bimonthly publication
and newsletter.
- Include
workshops, panels, and displays about national service at the
SHHH annual convention.
- Link
national service project directors with SHHH state coordinators
for train the trainer sessions on national service programs.
- Educate
SHHH state coordinators and their chapters on national service
programs.
- Develop
informative educational materials about national service activities
and how people with hearing loss can get involved.
- Produce
and distribute radio and television announcements that include
images of persons of all ages with hearing loss in national service
activities.
- Match RSVP volunteers with National Day of Hearing Screening (NDHS).
Contact Information
Brenda Battat, Deputy Executive Director
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-2248
[email protected]
