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2020 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition has ended
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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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Veronica McGee

Alabama TASH
President
Birmingham, AL
I live in Birmingham, Alabama.  My husband Steve and I have four children.  Our middle son Kyle, was born with a rare form of congenital hydrocephalus.  Kyle uses ACC and gestures to communicate and is also a power chair user.  Kyle is working towards CIE with his employment team at his unpaid internship with Ascension Healthcare.  Kyle joined Ascension when he was 15.  Kyle and I advocate for systems change in our state to help people with the most significant disabilities have access to CIE.  Currently, we are also working with a housing coalition that we put together to develop an affordable, inclusive and accessible housing community in Birmingham.  I would love to talk with other disability-forward visionaries that are working on predevelopment housing communities.   I work for PeopleFirst of Alabama as a project manager for our IDD  Community Waiver Program that was launched 10/1/2021.  PeopleFirst will be providing two services for this waiver - Peer Specialists and Family Navigators.   I am currently a cohort for the 2021-2022 class of Partners in PolicyMaking in Alabama.  
I am a member of Applied Self-Direction and participate on their advisory council.
I have attended three in-person TASH conferences and Kyle and I have presented at one.  This will be my second virtual!  We look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new friends!
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