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CIL Strategies for Involving Parents in the Transition Process

presented by Aaron Baier, Jayne Chase and Stacey Milbern on June 29, 2011

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About the Training

This year, the New Community Opportunities Project at ILRU is offering a series of webinars on the role of CILs in facilitating and advancing successful youth transition. This presentation will identify some best practices and strategies to assist parents with challenging situations, explain their important roles and describe the role of centers and their involvement.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will have knowledge and resources which will enable them to:

• Explain the value and role parental involvement offers at key points in the transition process
• Involve parents with the Center's support in a way that maintains consumer self-determination
• Assist parents through real life situations with challenging situations using some best practices

About the Presenters

Aaron T. Baier

Aaron T. Baier currently serves many roles within the independent living and youth movements. He is President of the National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) Governing Board and he coordinates youth transition and work readiness services for Access to Independence of Cortland County, Inc. in New York. Aaron has more than four years of experience in independent living services and advocacy for people with disabilities.

Aaron also brings his experience as Vice-Chair for the NYS Commission for the Blind & Visually Handicapped (CBVH) State Rehabilitation Council, YOUTH POWER! (NYLN's New York State Partner) and other local boards in the specific areas of youth advocacy, policy oversight, peer mentoring/counseling, transportation, and housing. Aaron is a graduate of State University of New York College at Cortland with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology

Jayne Chase

Jayne Chase is the mother of three children: Christina, Todd, and J. Paul. She became involved in disability issues when J. Paul received the label of autism. She has worked tirelessly for children with disabilities and adults with disabilities in creating welcoming inclusive communities where everybody belongs. Jayne believes "all" means "all" and no one should be excluded from participating in full community life.

Jayne has held various positions including the director of Partners in Policymaking of Alabama, the Alabama director of projects relating to employment and assistive technology, as well as consulted on numerous projects. She collaborated with Auburn University creating a distance learning course for teachers who work with students with disabilities. She is a national advisory board member of Autism NOW, as well as an Adult Ally Consultant with Reap What You Sow, a national project of the National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN).

Stacey Milbern

Stacey Milbern, NYLN Community Outreach Director, is a powerchair-roaring activist working in queer and women of color communities. Co-founder of the Disabled Young People's Collective, she has been a youth organizer since high school. She recently moved out of her parent's home in North Carolina to the SF Bay Area. She has been documenting the journey building interdependent home in an epistolary blog titled To the Other Side of Dreaming. Through To the Other Side of Dreaming friends were able to raise over $8,000 to help support Stacey with all the disability-related costs of moving (attendants, assistive tech, etc). She served on the NC SILC for four years and is excited to get involved in California disability community.

PowerPoint Presentation and Other Resources:

• PowerPoint presentation (PPTX file)
• PowerPoint presentation (Accessible HTML file)
• Wiki page with links to resources on youth leadership
• Transcript of the Program (MS Word docx)

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Presented by the New Community Opportunities Center, a national training and technical assistance project of ILRU, Independent Living Research Utilization. Support for the webinar was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration under grant number H400B100003. No official endorsement of the Department of Education should be inferred.

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