Ready to LEAD.
How do you LEAD?
Your experience and your perspective is valuable. In fact, too many people go without engaging with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) when they make important decisions about your community, your life, your work, your home, and more. Texas Advocates wants to help you change that!
Through the LEAD program, we are giving people the training and support to make sure that they can provide input, share their opinions, and be supported to do it. Where should Texans with I/DD LEAD? Well everywhere, but here are some good examples:
- At community meetings (neighborhood associations, church groups)
- On boards and commissions (for city council, state agencies like HHSC, a nonprofit, your local authority (LIDDA), or business)
- At town halls (state representatives and senators, city counselors, school board, special taxing districts like for libraries)
- With your family and friends
- Learn important skills for being a leader first in your Local Chapter and your local community then statewide and beyond
- Learn and practice tools for how to have a meaningful seat at the table
Texas Advocates is confident this project will prepare its participants to be equipped to have a meaningful seat on or at various boards, committees, workgroups, meetings, etc that impact their lives, making “Nothing about us without us” not just a motto, but a reality.
Ready to Learn?
How do you Learn?
Soliciting meaningful input or feedback and building diversity within your business, nonprofit, or committee is much more than just checking a box. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to know how to get actionable input and how to support diverse needs and perspectives, especially for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). But it doesn’t have to be that way - Texas Advocates can help!
The LEAD Program can connect you directly with leaders with disabilities who can provide you with you need to ensure you are receiving valuable input and meeting your diversity goals. LEAD can help you or your organizations/company:
- Find people with I/DD to serve on boards and commissions
- Develop leadership strategies that support the diverse needs of individuals
- Learn how to not tokenize people with disabilities
- Strengthen your diversity
- And so much more
How do you Learn?
Soliciting meaningful input or feedback and building diversity within your business, nonprofit, or committee is much more than just checking a box. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to know how to get actionable input and how to support diverse needs and perspectives, especially for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). But it doesn’t have to be that way - Texas Advocates can help!
The LEAD Program can connect you directly with leaders with disabilities who can provide you with you need to ensure you are receiving valuable input and meeting your diversity goals. LEAD can help you or your organizations/company:
- Find people with I/DD to serve on boards and commissions
- Develop leadership strategies that support the diverse needs of individuals
- Learn how to not tokenize people with disabilities
- Strengthen your diversity
- And so much more
ADVOCACY
ADVOCACY
LEARNING
LEARNING
LEADING
LEADING
TEACHING
TEACHING
INSPIRING
INSPIRING
This work is supported by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities through a grant from the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Washington, D.C. 20201, with a 100% federal funding award totaling $6,121,860. Council efforts are those of the grantee and do not necessarily represent the official views of nor are endorsed by ACL, HHS, or the U.S. Government.
