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Welcome to the 2020 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition website! We’re so glad you are here!

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.

Need technical assistance during the conference? Please email our support staff at helpdesk@tash.org.
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Shay Bernard

Progressive Community Services
Support Coordination Standards Specialist
Saint Joseph, MO
Shahariah "Shay" Bernard has worked for Progressive Community Services for a total of 11 years. 2 years as a direct support staff, and 9 years in support coordination. She is passionate about advocating for the people she supports, finding creative solutions to everyday problems, and building relationships with diverse groups of people. She has been a TASH member 5 years and actively participates in the Diversity and Social Impact Committee and the Community Living Committee. Shay has had the honor of growing up with an uncle with a developmental disability who has had a great impact on her life. Shay is a graduate of The National Leadership Institute on Developmental Disabilities and a Charting the LifeCourse Ambassador.
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