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Each year, the TASH Conference brings together individuals with significant disabilities and their allies to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The conference is attended by passionate advocates, leaders, and subject matter experts from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees play an important role in supporting individuals with significant disabilities to overcome various barriers in order to live their best lives. Central to this work is the premise that individuals reach their optimal potential only when they are given the opportunity to live, work and thrive across the lifespan in the same communities we are all members of. The conference is intentionally designed to support the interests of professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; home and community-based service providers; students, family members, and most importantly, self-advocates with lived experience.

This year, while we are taking the conference virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that our unique approach to providing exceptional first-rate content and building strong community ties and connections across various stakeholders will yield an extraordinary event! We have taken extra steps to bring people closer together during these times, as well as to create an amazing virtual environment that expands our knowledge, spurs our creative thinking, and focuses on healthy living and having fun!  Our conference theme, Feel the Power of Inclusion, reinforces the importance of our continued commitment to promoting a world of equity and opportunity for all, and is predicated on the value of bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences in an effort to build strong human connectivity and spur collective action.

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Friday, December 4 • 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Living & Thriving with Person-Centered Supports: Moving Beyond COVID-19

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Find out how and why Person-Centered supports promote the re-integration of people into their essential community routines, employment & volunteerism, safely and responsibly in a COVID-19 world. While programs that provide congregate (and often segregated) services to adults with I/DD continue to have difficulty resuming direct services and supports to people due to the restrictions and dangers posed by COVID-19, we will demonstrate how and why person-centered services and supports have made it easier assist people to LIVE and THRIVE as they move back to essential routines, employment and volunteerism. Person-centered services also enabled agencies like ours to continue to provide direct Coaching and supports to keep people safe as they have continued to work at essential jobs throughout COVID-19, while many employment agencies discontinued all direct supports during COVID-19.

Presenters
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Scott Shepard

Director, Avenues Supported Living Services
Scott Shepard is the Executive Director of Avenues Supported Living Services, a non-profit agency which provides community living and personalized day supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in North Los Angeles County. With Avenues SLS, we had the opportunity... Read More →


Friday December 4, 2020 2:30pm - 3:15pm EST
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