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Registration for the second 2024 Odyssey webinar, “The Principles of Disability Justice,” is open until 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. To register, refer to Odyssey registration: The Principles of Disability Justice.
Description
Patty Berne, co-founder and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, and Terri L. Wilder, MSW, will present this 90-minute webinar on disability justice. The webinar is designed for policymakers, health providers and program developers. Presenters with lived experience will lead the session. After the webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Explain the differences among the medical, social and disability justice models to foster more inclusive environments.
- Describe the 10 principles of disability justice and their critical role in promoting equity.
- Explore the intersectionality of disability with other social identities (e.g., race, age, gender, sexual orientation) and identify how these intersections disproportionately impact people with disabilities, especially people of color with disabilities.
- Apply practical strategies and disability justice principles in advocacy work and everyday life.
Date
Friday, Aug. 16, 2024
Time
3:30 to 5 p.m. CT
Recording
We will record this webinar. The recording will be available for one month after the event.
Continuing education
The Minnesota Board on Aging approved this program for 1.5 clock hours and 1.5 social work continuing education unit (CEU) credits. CEU credits are not available for watching the webinar recording.
Cost
This webinar is free to attend.
About the presenters
Patty Berne is the co-founder and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, which is a disability justice-based performance project, centralizing people of color, queer people and gender non-conforming people with disabilities. Berne’s graduate training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Her professional background includes community organizing within the Haitian diaspora, internationally supporting the Guatemalan democratic movement, offering mental health support to survivors of interpersonal violence and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives in reproductive genetic technologies. Berne’s experience as a Japanese-Haitian queer woman with a disability provides grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized people. They are widely recognized for their work to establish the framework and praxis of disability justice.
Note: Berne will use a likeness image (or avatar) instead of live video during the presentation.
Terri L. Wilder, MSW, is a social worker and activist for the rights of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), long COVID and HIV. Since 1989, she has worked in public health providing social services, coordinating education for clients and medical providers, managing volunteer-led programs and advocating for policy change. She has presented at local, national and international conferences on a variety of health topics. Wilder was diagnosed with ME in March 2016. Since her diagnosis, she has worked with elected officials, public health departments, health care providers and activists to raise awareness and change policy across the globe. She was finishing her PhD in sociology at Georgia State University when she became ill. However, she believes she has had the disease since 1996. She has years of experience working with #MEAction and has represented the organization on the federal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) and during National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) meetings. She uses the skills she learned from the HIV movement and the LGBTQ+ community to fight for the ME and long COVID communities. Wilder served as the co-leader of #MEAction New York for several years. She is currently the chair of #MEAction Minnesota.
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