Local Coordinator Update
AAPD plans to make a 6-minute video incorporating
and giving an overview of all of our national programs that occur
throughout the year. As part of the component dealing with
DMD, we would like to include some footage from onsite DMD activities.Toward
that end, if any local coordinators plan on filming their DMD activities
on October 20, please send us copies of the footage. We would,
of course, give credit to the local coordinators on any footage
we use. And, we would really like to receive copy of the footage
by the end of November.
DMD Certificate 2004 (pdf format)
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National Coordinator of Disability Mentoring Day
American Association of People with Disabilities
1629 K Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 20006
(800) 840-8844, (Voice/TTY)
Email DMD National Coordinator
IN THIS ISSUE
- Reminder About Opportunity For LC'S Under Age 24
- DMD As A Year-Round Effort
- Review Of LC Information
*** A Word To Those Who Are New ***
Welcome aboard! You have just joined
a family of Local Coordinators from every part of the country, who
are dedicated to using the mentoring concept to enhance employment
opportunities for people with disabilities. The Local Coordinator
Update, distributed periodically by the AAPD National Office, is
the mechanism for staying in touch with our leaders on the ground
about information that is important to them while keeping them up
to date on latest national efforts to build DMD even larger.
The subject line of the Local Coordinator
Update is written specifically to enable you to keep these bulletins
on your desktop and to organize alphabetically according to date
(which is why the year is mentioned first before the month and day).
We strongly advise you to retain these editions for future use,
both for your own personal reference and to pass along to individuals
who may succeed you in your Local Coordinator role. Again, welcome.
Congratulations on the adventure on which you are about to embark!
1.
Reminder About Opportunity For LC'S
Under Age 24
As was indicated in an informal
e-mail to Local Coordinators several weeks ago, we are looking
for Local Coordinators under the age of 24, who may qualify
to receive funding through a source identified by AAPD's Senior
Vice President of Development and Communications, Mariana V.
Nork. Please contact JT toll-free at (800) 840-8844,
to be sure that you are on the list of those to be contacted
to receive further information.
Local Coordinators are also invited to call upon
AAPD to submit letters of support for Requests for Proposals (RFP's)
for which they are applying to support DMD locally. Over the past
few weeks, Local Coordinators have come to us to seek assistance
in their fundraising efforts, and we have promptly followed through
by enhancing support among local funding sources, which they have
identified. Please accept our offer to write letters of support
where needed, particularly where there has been a demonstrated commitment
to building DMD.
2.
DMD
As A Year-Round Effort
Please keep us posted regarding how DMD in your local area is
evolving to a year-round effort. This has direct implications
on disability employment policy, as it illustrates how mentoring
actually does lead to enhanced internship and employment opportunities,
the more there exists an ongoing structure to prepare students
and job seekers with disabilities for the world of work.
Local Coordinators must remember that all their work (and those
of their Local Organizing Committees) serve as wonderful examples
to policy-makers on how mentoring should be incorporated as an
integral part of lowering the 68% unemployment rate among the
nation's working-age disability population. Mentoring leads to
attitudinal shifts, which spawn enhanced choices and opportunities,
resulting in greater economic self-sufficiency.
3.
Review Of LC Information
Please take a moment to review
your contact information shown on the "Local Coordinators"
page of AAPD's DMD web site. If there are any changes or additions,
let us know, and we will make the modifications accordingly. If,
for whatever reason, you are no longer to serve in a Local Coordinator
role, please be sure to inform us right away so that we may work
with you to identify a new individual who may serve as your successor.
Communication is critical here, so please keep us up to date, as
your listing will remain unless we receive indication to the contrary
that circumstances have changed.
We also want to be sure that people
with disabilities, disability rights advocates, employment placement
professionals, members of the business community, non-profit organization
leaders, and others are put in touch with the right individuals
at the local level so as to tap them into AAPD's turnkey approach
to coordinating DMD. To maximize success in this regard, your staying
in touch with us will make all the difference.
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