The free, on-demand Partners in Policymaking Online Curriculum consists of five courses that can be complete by anyone seeking to understand key issues impacting people with developmental disabilities.
You can:
- Explore the history of people with developmental disabilities and how they lived, learned, and worked through time, including critical legislation, social movements and people that helped propel change.
- Explore the special education system and learn how parents can help shape their child’s educational experience by understanding the laws and actively participating in the process.
- Explore employment for people with developmental disabilities and understand common employment supports, services and service providers that are available to help people with developmental disabilities prepare for competitive integrated employment, enter the workforce and be successful at work.
- Explore the components of a meaningful life in the community and understand how being treated with dignity and respect, self-determination, family supports, assistive technology and access to accessible, affordable housing impact independence, interdependence, community participation, and inclusion.
- Explore public policymaking and how people with developmental disabilities can participate in the policymaking process to create positive, lasting systems change.
Cost: This is a free resource
