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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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Renée Pruitt

National Disability Rights Network
Program Analyst
Washington, DC
Websitendrn.org
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Before joining NDRN in September 2019, Renée worked at the Georgia P&A, the Georgia Advocacy Office, for over six years. During her time there, she was an advocate before becoming the Director of the Developmental Disabilities Program. She worked on the first iteration Representative Payee Project from 2014-2016, and coordinated orientation and values based trainings. In 2018, she led the development and implementation of the Representative Payee Program.

Renée previously worked at Hope House Foundation in Norfolk, VA, where she led a team of direct support professionals to support people with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities to expand their advocacy skills, live in their own homes, gain more independence in their lives, and contribute to and find membership in the community. Renée sees her career as a way to honor the legacy of her aunt. Her significant influence in Renée’s life from a young age guided her into a life of advocacy.

My Presenters Sessions

Tuesday, December 8
 

12:30pm EST

Rep Payee Program 101 Virtual Platform
 

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