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Spring CalendarThere is always something going on here at BIAC. BIAC’s Annual Golf Tournament, Friday June 6, 2008 Now in its 22nd year, our 2008 BIAC Golf Tournament will be held at Wintonbury Hills Golf Course in Bloomfield on Friday, June 6th. Golfers are sure to enjoy this challenging Pete Dye-designed course! Additional sponsors for the 2008 golf outing are now being sought. For sponsorship information, please contact BIAC Fund Development Director Nancy Wuennemann at fund@biact.org. To learn more about making a silent auction donation or volunteering at this popular event, please contact BIAC Special Events Coordinator, Cindy Lang at clang@biact.org. 2008 golf brochure and online registration coming soon.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES BUREAU OF REHABILITATION SERVICES 25 SIGOURNEY STREET, 11TH FLOOR, HARTFORD, CT 06106-5033
APRIL 21, 2008 Dear Vocational Rehabilitation Consumer, Colleague, Partner, Interested Entities: You are invited to attend the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services (BRS) Public Meeting on Monday, May 12, 2008, from 4:00 – 7:00 PM. This meeting will give you an opportunity to share your thoughts about BRS and learn more about the services we provide. You may join me, the leadership staff of BRS, and representatives of the State Rehabilitation Council (SRC) to discuss your experiences with BRS. This would be a special opportunity to let us know how we can best serve those who seek vocational rehabilitation services. The public meeting will be a video conference at three locations. Please plan to join us at Rensselaer at Hartford, the Middletown Adult Education Office, or The Executive Center at One Exchange Place in Waterbury to participate in this event. (See attached directions.) Sign language interpreters and Spanish translators will be available for your convenience. At BRS, we are striving to achieve these goals over the next five years: Goal 1: To improve the quality of vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, as measured by consumer satisfaction. Goal 2: To increase employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, as measured by employment rates and earnings. Goal 3: To increase access to services for all individuals with disabilities, as measured by numbers of applications in underserved locations. Goal 4: To create effective partnerships designed to advance employment for Connecticut citizens with disabilities. You may have suggestions for other goals you may wish for us to consider. If you are unable to attend, you may send your comments by e-mail to evelyn.knight@ct.gov or by regular postal mail to Brenda L. Moore, Director, BRS, 25 Sigourney Street, 11th Floor, Hartford, CT 06106. All comments sent by e-mail or letter regarding the public meeting must arrive here by May 19, 2008 at 4:00 P.M. If you have additional questions, please call Evelyn Oliver Knight at 860-424-4871 or tool-free 800-537-2549. Sincerely, Brenda L. Moore Director
Directions to Video Conference LocationsNorthern Region Rensselaer at Hartford I-91 North from New Haven:
Southern RegionMiddletown Adult Education 398 Main Street, Room 207, Middletown, CT 06457 Phone: 860 343-6044 (Entrance in the rear, but there is parking on the street in the front.) Western Region Executive Center @ Exchange Place Parking at One Exchange Place From Route 9 South or North Take exit 15. Proceed on Washington Street to Melilli Parking Lot on the left. You will see a gazebo and a blue sign. Take the entrance adjacent to the parking lot. Take elevator located in the lobby to the second floor. Parking is free after 6:00 p.m.
"Visions from the Heart" - An Exhibition of Artists with Disabilities
The Kennedy Center, Inc. 38 Lindeman Drive,Trumbull, CT 06611 Tel, (203) 332-4535, Fax (203) 332-4545, TDD (203) 339-3034 The Kennedy Center is partnering with the Barnum Festival to sponsor our third annual juried art show, “Visions from the Heart – An Exhibition of Artists with Disabilities” to be held in June/July 2008 at City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport, CT. Our goals are to showcase the creativity and talent of artists with disabilities and to enable the general public to have opportunities to have more access to and appreciation of this wonderful art. Additionally, there is no fee for entry and the artists will receive prizes, press recognition and an invitation to the Opening Reception on June 18th. We look forward to it being an even bigger success than the last two years. We would so appreciate if you could help us by distributing the attached Entry Form to any individuals/organization who are affiliated with artists with disabilities. The entry form can also be downloaded from the following websites: www.barnumfestival.com, www.thekennedycenterinc.org or www.visions-from-the-heart.com. Also, any and all help in promoting participation in and publicizing this special show would be wonderful. Thank you so much. Please contact Ginger Fiore at (203) 332-4535 x207 or gfiore@kennedyctr.org for more information.
Parents with Cognitive Limitations: A Summit for the Future Come hear what's working on a national level and help create CT's plan to address the service needs of these families. The intended audience for the conference is Bureau Chiefs, Area Directors, Program Directors, Program Supervisors and Supervisors in State Departments, and Executive Staff in other organizations. Special guests will include the Thortons, a family previously interviewed on 60 Minutes. Topics will include the challenges of screening and identifying these families and effective strategies for working with them. To date over 600 people throughout the state have been trained on identifying and working with these families. The next step requires changes that can only come about through leadership of decision-makers. Location: Amarante's Sea Cliff, 62 Cove Street, New Haven, CT 06512 Phone: 203-467-2531 Sponsored by: The CT Parents with Cognitive Limitations workgroup, a multi-agency collaborative.
Volunteers Needed: Traumatic Brain Injury Trinity College's Department of Psychology is seeking volunteers who have sustained traumatic brain injury and now experience difficulty with their attention or memory. We are studying the effects of a procedure to improve memory through a series of memory excercises. All volunteers will receive a neuropsychological evaluation before and after treatment, and a course of cognitive rehabilitation for approximately six months. All aspects of the study will be supervised by a licensed psychologist. The information from the study will be confidential; your name will not be associated with any publication. If you wish, the information can be shared with your doctors or therapists. However, no aspects of your participation in this project will affect your ongoing treatment with other therapists in any way. Participation is free of charge and all sessions will take place at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. If you have any questions, or would like to participate, please contact Dr. Sarah Raskin at Sarah.Raskin@trincoll.edu, or call (860) 297-5188 and leave a message.
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Survey If you or someone you know utilizes Assistive Technology, you are invited to participate in a survey. As part of a research project by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies (RERC-ACT), housed at the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) in the Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, the survey focuses on how people with disabilities use cognitive technologies (personal digital assistants, cell phones, augmentative communication devices, tape recorders, etc.) to increase independence. The Center is interested in gathering information from people with developmental disabilities (age 18+), acquired brain injuries, or problems with memory, as well as from people who provide them support. While there are no direct benefits to individual subjects, it is hoped the information obtained will help technology developers and researchers to create technologies that will promote the independence of people with disabilities. Participation is voluntary and you can choose to end your involvement at any time. The Center hopes that the information gathered through this survey will help create better technologies in the future for people with disabilities. The survey is available online at: http://206.188.20.148/survey/survey.php?sid=62 More information about the survey and the Institute on Disability and Human Development can be found at: http://www.idhd.org/default.asp
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