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.
Project ACTION! is a coalition of self-advocates and self-advocacy groups from the District of Columbia and surrounding areas. ACTION! stands for Advocacy, Change, Training, Information, Organizing, and Networking!
People with disabilities have many issues and concerns in common, including transportation, health care, jobs, safety, adult education, funding for community living support, and so on. There is strength in numbers! We can accomplish more together than we can alone.
Self-advocates meet to learn about their rights, update each other on important issues, set priorities, plan, advocate together, provide and receive training, and report on the different meetings and training events they have attended. Many of our members have joined boards, committees, work groups, and commissions that make decisions that affect our lives. (We also have fun, celebrate together and support each other through hard times.)
Project ACTION! meets monthly virtually at this time to connect, organize and advocate. If you'd like to be added to our mailing list and get updates, please email Leonard Stevens at leo.stevensprojectaction@gmail.com or pholton@dcqualitytrust.org.
Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dcprojectaction
Thank you, Project ACTION!, for being a Welcome Item sponsor! The masks are awesome!
https://dcqualitytrust.org/families/join-project-action/
