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Subject: FCCF- Self Determination International conference and

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Please read about this wonderful conference and consider sending a

person to it if you have funds to do so. I have attended the

conference in the past and it was great. Sign up to receive the

newsletter if you do nothing else.

Center for Self-Determination E-Newsletter

Alliance for Freedom News

www.self-determination.com

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March, 2008 Special Edition of the Alliance for Freedom e-news

Volume 5, Issue 2

LIKE A HEAT WAVE

The International Conference is just nine weeks away! Early bird

discount deadline

is May 1. Now is the hot time to Register for the conference and make

hotel

reservations at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center

GET READY Four Tops

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...is the right of all people, regardless of disability or need for

support.

Click on the image on the left to view the official International

Conference on

Self-Determination conference brochure.

If you'd like a substantial amount of brochures contact Devon,

Public

Relations Director, Community

Living Services, Inc.35425 Michigan Ave. West Wayne, MI 48184. Phone:

,

fax:

Opportunity Not to Miss

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have made a major

commitment

to participate in all roundtables and sessions strands, provide private

consultation, and to present at the plenary luncheon with key personnel

from

Baltimore.

Other key sponsorships to date:

Detroit Wayne Community Mental Health

Michigan Department of Community Health

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Community Living Service, Inc

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and

Human

Services (HHS)

The Office of the Deputy Secretary Department for Planning and

Evaluation, U.S.,

HHS

Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority

The Developmental Disabilities Institute at Wayne State University

This list is not complete - please check ICSD website for timely updates

website.

NOWHERE TO RUN

Each session moderator has worked with the ICSD conference committee to

organize

the panel (in which he or she moderates) and assures cross-disability

representation with the subject.

Session 1A Systems Change: Changing the Agenda for Human Services and

the Control

of Public Funding in the United States Moderators: Shuman, the

Arc of New

Mexico and Bob Kafka, ADAPT

Session 1B Systems Change: Changing the Agenda for Human Services and

the Control

of Public Funding-an International Perspective Moderator: Steve Dowson,

National

Development Team, UK

Session 1C Structural Change: Budgets, Allocation Strategies; Fiscal

Management;

Planning, Brokering, Peer Supports, Coordination Moderator: Jim Dehem,

Community

Living Services, MI

Session 1D Advocacy and Leadership - Strengthening the Movement

Moderators: Dan

Fisher, the National Empowerment Center; Marsha Rose Katz, ADAPT, Rural

Institute,

MT and Bob Liston, ADAPT, Montana Fair Housing

Session 1E Work Imperative: People Taking Charge of Their Economic

Futures With

Self-Determination Moderators: Hammis and Cary ,

-Hammis

Associates, LLC

Session 1F Workforce Issues Moderator: Dohn Hoyle, the Arc of Michigan,

SEIU

members and others

Session 1G StoryCorps Interviews and The Power of Your Story Moderators:

Pat

Carver, Community Drive, Inc; , the Developmental

Disability

Institute, Wayne State University; Ray Schuholz, Community Living

Services, Inc and

Ann , The Council on Quality

Panel members for the above sessions to date include Edddie Bartnik,

Anne Beales,

Micheal Bleascale, Ricky Broussard, Gerald , Mike , Eli

Cohen, Jim

Conroy, Annette Downey, Derrick Dufrense, Beth Durkee, Flanagan,

Fudge,

Jackie Golden, Jack Hillyard, Mike Halligan, Steve Harrington, Mike

Head, Jeff

Keilson, Kathleen Kovach, Jan Lampman, Barbara LeRoy, Bob Liston, Joe

Loncor,

Mahoney, , Noreen Jaloway, Marquez, Mike

Oxford, Lori

Owen, Russ Rankin, Dorren Rosimos, Marcie Roth, Salisbury, Ray

Schulolz, Tim

Stainton, Shuman, Verna Spatyh, Glenna , Ann , Josh

Wiener,

Doug Woollard, and more ...

COME SEE ABOUT ME

Come, see and participate in one of these two informative per-conference

sessions

on Tuesday May 27th from 9 am to 4 pm at the Detroit Marriott.

The Income and Asset pre-conference session is an in-depth forum on

critical

elements of helping people, regardless of their disability, to have

viable

opportunities to earn income and build financial assets. Highlights:

Creating

alliances to give people the tools for a better life; government and

community

endeavors that support people to gain freedom through financial

security. The

Moderator is Jack Hillyard, Employment Policy Group, University of Iowa

And topics

include:

Self-Determination and Asset Building as a Central Tool for Social

Policy

Social Investments and Life Course Perspective

Asset-based Approaches in the Context of Poverty and Social

Exclusion:

Concepts and Theory

Increasing Individual and Family Economic Success

Access to Banking and Savings

Individual Development Accounts (IDA) Targeted to Low-Income Groups

Building Housing Assets of Low Income Groups

Strategic Next Steps to Asset-Building

International Communication and Information Sharing pre-conference

session is a

forum for hearing what is going on around the world in

self-determination and

finding ways to create effective international information sharing and

communication. Highlights: speakers from around the world; opportunities

to develop

ways to keep informed of what is happening in other places; making sure

information

sharing is accessible to all who need it. The Moderators are Barbara

Leroy Ph.D.,

The Developmental Disabilities Institute, Wayne State University,

Detroit;

Salisbury and Doug Wollard, Community Living British Columbia; Colleen

Wieck Ph.D.,

Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities and Dan

Fisher, The

Empowerment Center, MA

For more details on both important and valuable pre-conference

sessions visit:

http://www.communitydrive.org/uploads/preconf_session_details.pdf

Register for the preconference

http://www.macmhb.org/reg_forms/ISDPreconferenceWorkshops.htm

JIMMY MACK

You'll be coming back after dinner (if you choose) on Wednesday 5/28 to

participate

in one of the evening Roundtables. Topics range from the " Future of

Systems Change "

to " Assuring Quality. " To hurry back, go to the Program page on the ICSD

website

for roundtable details.

I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER

Say a prayer. Tell a story. Record your thoughts. Create folklore and

build a

portrait of who we really are as Americans. Sign up to participate in

STORYCORPS at

the International Conference on Self Determination on Wednesday May 28,

2008.

By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we

experience

our history, hopes, and humanity.

If you're thinking about being interviewed

Find a Partner to interview. The best StoryCorps interviews happen

between two

people who know each other well. A crucial part of the StoryCorps

experience

is having the chance to be interviewed someone important to you,

and to ask

questions you have never been able to ask. Your partner can be a

family

member, friend, and colleague, everyday people who know you well

and will be

at the conference. Stories of everyday people are the most

important and

interesting stories of all.

Contact Pat Carver at pcarver@... TODAY to sign up.

Interviews are

40 minutes long and therefore limit the amount of the time slots.

Learn about STORY CORPS. A StoryCorps interview is a conversation

between two

people who know each other well. Each conversation is recorded on a

free CD to

take home and share, and is archived for generations to come at the

United

States Library of Congress. Visit the STORYCORS website

http://www.storycorps.net especially the Questions and Answers page

http://www.storycorps.net/about/faqs

DANCING IN THE STREETS

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Tidbits is the

ICSD monthly column highlighting events and little known facts about the

big " D "

written by Devon the Public Relations Director at Community

Living

Services. Tiff's Tidbits is dedicated to all the cool things happening

in and

around Detroit as well as an information source for all those little

known facts

about the Motor City. From the alluring architecture and the dynamic

dining to the

classy culture and casinos, there's something for everyone in Detroit!

One spot could be the Motown Historical Museum where Smokey is

quoted as

saying " All over the world, all through the races, all through

everything, Motown

bridged a gap...and I'm so proud of that! " said Smokey " . You,

too, will be

proud being a part of what we anticipate as some of the most meaningful

discussions

of the future of self-determination that we've experienced in a long

time about

bridging those gaps for that new day when people, regardless of

disability or need

for support, will have control over their future and the resources they

need to

pursue a meaningful life.

Sound familiar?

Watch for Next ALLIANCE for Freedom issue to find out who exactly sings

the Motown

songs in the headlines above!!

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