IOD Opens New Professional Development Center
Over the past 20 years, the IOD has established itself as a premier source of unique, comprehensive leadership and professional education products and services. Through progressive, culturally relevant, and increasingly diverse leadership training and professional development opportunities, the IOD continues to reach an ever-broadening audience of consumers and professionals. Thanks to a generous grant from the Cogswell Benevolent Trust of Manchester, NH, the IOD is pleased to announce the opening of the new Institute on Disability Professional Development Center (PDC) next door to the IOD’s office location in Concord, NH. The PDC will serve to anchor the IOD’s professional development offerings in the coming years by providing a physical identity to the IOD professional development brand. |
NH Leadership Series Participant Helps to Amend NH State Building CodeOn November 13, 2009, the NH State Building Code Review Board voted 14 to two in favor of requiring the installation of power door openers in at least one accessible entrance during construction of new public buildings or when a public building is renovated. Current NH Leadership Series participant Lisa Dimartino, Family-to-Family Coordinator at Lakes Region Community Services and mother of a child with disabilities, was instrumental in seeing this code amendment pass. The revised NH building code will take effect April 1, 2010. |
