CCOSD

Consumer, Family and Community Advocacy Weekend

An exciting course, Consumer, Family and Community Advocacy, is being offered at Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD) during the weekend of Feb. 20-21, 2010. It will be taught by one of Gallaudet’s College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO) instructors, Kevin Nolan, Jr. This course is open to deaf and hard of hearing individuals and parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. The course focuses on improving the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing consumers and their families. The training focuses on advocacy, as a process, and the tenets of effective advocacy efforts at the local, state, and national levels.

Registration deadline is January 29, 2010. Click on this link for more information.

Sent by
Sherrie A. Carroll
Gallaudet University Regional Center
Northern Essex Community College
100 Elliott St.
Haverhill, MA 01830
978-556-3701 tty/v
978-556-3703 Fax
scarroll@necc.mass.edu
http://www.necc.mass.edu/gallaudet