[nabs-l] Fwd: MEAFlink: Webinar -- Creating an Accessible Outdoor Service Site from the Utah Conservation Corps

[Corbb O'Connor]

Hi folks,

MEAF, the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation, is a great group,  
and this webinar looks very interesting. With recent discussions on  
the NABS list about community service as a blind person, this webinar  
may be of interest to some of you. Note that the registration deadline  
is easy to remember: noon on Tax Day, April 15!

(By the way, if the name MEAF sounds familiar, it is because they  
sponsor the American Association of People with Disabilities' Summer  
Congressional Internship Program...something all of you should apply  
for at some point during your three summers of college!)

Corbb

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From: "Berg, Allison" <Allison.Berg at meus.mea.com>
Date: March 30, 2010 9:41:22 AM EDT
Subject: MEAFlink: Webinar -- Creating an Accessible Outdoor Service  
Site from the Utah Conservation Corps

MEAF is pleased to be a co-presenter on a National Service Inclusion  
Project webinar featuring MEAF grantee The Corps Network and the Utah  
Conservation Corps.  The webinar will introduce participants to  
strategies for developing inclusive volunteer service opportunities  
and the newly issued Inclusion Crew Toolkit.  We hope you will join us  
on April 16th.  Please feel free to share this announcement with your  
networks.

Webinar: Creating an Accessible Outdoor Service Site from the Utah  
Conservation Corps

Date:   Friday, April 16th, Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST (2:00 PM  
Central, 1:00 PM Mountain, 12:00 PM Pacific)

The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is pleased to announce  
our next web conference to be held on Friday, April 16th at 3:00pm  
EST. NSIP is pleased to be joined by Kevin Webb, Director of the  
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation, Kate Stephens, Assistant  
Director of the AmeriCorps Utah Conservation Corps, and Jeff Sheen,  
Training Development Specialist for the Center for Persons with  
Disabilities.  This web conference will provide an overview of the  
AmeriCorps Utah Conservation Corps, strategies for making outdoor  
sites accessible to individuals with disabilities, and reasonable  
accommodations you can implement within your own site to ensure equal  
access and participation.

Specifically, we will discuss:
- An overview of the inclusion efforts at the Utah Conservation Corps
- Specific reasonable accommodations the Utah Conservation Corps has  
provided
- Specific strategies for developing physically accessible outdoor  
service projects
- Development of accessible community gardens
- A toolkit created to guide programs in the development of inclusive  
service and conservation corps programs

Featured Speakers:
Mr. Kevin Webb, MA
Director
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation

Ms. Kate Stephens, MA
Assistant Director
Utah Conservation Corps

Mr. Jeff Sheen, MA
Training Development Specialist
Center for Persons with Disabilities

To register for this event, please email nsip at umb.edu by 12:00 PM EST  
on Thursday, April  15th with the following info:

-Name
-Organization
-Email
-Phone
-If you require CART* to participate, please also indicate that in  
your email.

Please note: We will send out confirmation emails by Thursday  
afternoon, April 15th with instructions how to sign into the web  
conference.

*CART service provides instantaneous translation of the speech text  
using real-time software. Teleconference participants receive caption  
services over the web. This is an accommodation we provide to  
participants who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is training and  
technical assistance provider on disability inclusion, under a  
cooperative agreement  (#08TAHMA001)  from Corporation for National  
and Community Service (CNCS). NSIP partners with the Association on  
University Centers on Disability, National Council on Independent  
Living, Association on Higher Education and Disability and National  
Down Syndrome Congress to build connections among disability  
organizations and all CNCS grantees, to increase the participation of  
people with disabilities in national service.

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Spread the word: Potential AmeriCorps members can apply online and  
AmeriCorps programs can post opportunities at http://www.americorps.gov