Our Community Standing Strong Advisory Committee Webinar November 19, 2013

1. Our Community Standing StrongAdvisory Committee Webinar November 19, 2013 The Southern Collaborative Regional Self Advocacy Technical Assistance Center Funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

2. Introductions

4. Agenda • Summary of Our Community Standing Strong’s Activities • Review of State Requirements • State Needs Assessment Surveys • Review of Draft Survey • State Expectations and Contracts with SABE • Plans for Meeting in Nashville • Travel Plans for January 11-12, 2014 Meeting in Nashville

5. Our Activities since our last Webinar • Worked on our E-mail list • Syracuse University helped us set up Listserv (email list for us) • Completed Draft Needs Assessment survey for States • Completed Draft State Contracts • Sent Power Point presentation with minutes from webinar from last webinar to Advisory Committee • Met by Webinar with other Regional Technical Assistance Grant Awardee and AIDD on November 4, 2013

6. State Expectations • Collection of 1200 surveys on what are the technical assistance needs of the state and region. • Each state will collect and input 150 surveys in survey monkey • Survey monkey is an on line survey tool that will help us summarize the results from our survey

7. State Expectations • Completion of a State Demographic Sheet for your state self advocacy organizations/groups • State and regional plans for Technical Assistance will be developed based on survey results • A work plan identifying goals, activities and timelines will be developed by the state with technical assistance from OCSS/SABE leaders and staff

8. State Expectations • Each state will write 2 Blogs on issues • A Blog is sharing your personal opinions, activities and experiences on issue in your state

9. State Expectation • States will post on the Southern Collaborative Facebook page and Twitter feed information on their state efforts and ask questions and share information

10. State Expectations • States will work with their membership and publicize 5 webinars in their state • Webinars will address the top five topics that are identified by the survey

11. What will the states receive to help us with the things that we will have to do? • Each state will receive a grant to complete surveys, develop a plan for technical assistance and begin implementation of the plan. • States will receive a total of $6250.00 for the first year

12. Draft State Survey • https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VMHFBX7

13. Draft State Survey • Questions And Comments • Advisory Committee Members- First • Allies-Second

14. What will my state agree to in the contract with SABE? • Your state agrees to appoint 2 Self Advocate and one Alternate to the advisory committee • At least one of your DD Network Partners agree to work with you • Completion or 150 surveys to develop a state needs assessment] • At least 75% of these surveys must be from self advocates • The survey must be representative of all parts of your state • Input 150 surveys in survey monkey State Agreements State Agreements

15. What will my state agree to in the contract with SABE? • Publish 2 Blogs from your state on issues of concern • Post the activities of your self-advocacy organizations on SABE website, Facebook and Twitter • Develop and implement state training and technical assistance (T/TA) plan • Support through your state participation in at least five T/TA events held statewide and regionally; • Commit to publically share your successes and lessons learned, training plans and products on www.sabeusa.org State Agreements State Agreements

16. What will my state agree to in the contract with SABE? • Obtain commitments from DD Network partners to assist with the development of the project’s sustainability plan to continue the regional self advocacy collaboration efforts State Agreements State Agreements

17. ? • Obtain commitments from DD Network partners to assist with the development of a plan to continue the regional technical assistance efforts State Agreements State Agreements

18. How much will states receive? • If all states agree to the requirements each state will receive $6250.00

19. How and when will we be paid? You will submit an request to SABE for the money We will provide you with a form to use for this

20. When will states receive payment? • We are proposing that states be paid in three payments. • One payment upon completion of your state organizations demographic information by the Advisory Meeting in Nashville in January, 2014 • One payment upon completion and input into of 150 surveys and one blog from your state, update on your state and local activities on Social Media by May, 2014 Proposed Payment Plan for States Proposed Payment Plan for States

21. When will states receive payment? • One payment after completion of technical assistance plan and work plan for your state, progress report on Technical assistance plan, completion of second blog and posting of your state and local activities on social media for your state by August, 2014. • In addition to the payments outlined in a-c, SABE will pay for two nights shared rooms for two advisory committee members and one support to attend the face to face advisory committee meetings. Proposed Payment Plan for States Proposed Payment Plan for States

22. State Contracts and Payments • Questions And Comments • Advisory Committee Members- First • Allies-Second

23. Actions needed by the Advisory Committee • Approval of Draft Survey • Approval of the Grants Contract and Grant Payment recommendations

24. What do we need to work on for November. December? • Write Contracts for the States • Include at least one partner in our advisory committee webinars and meetings. • (Self advocacy groups will need to contact partners to encourage them to participate in discussions with us).

25. What do we need to work on for November and December? • Complete a state demographic survey with each stateto be presented at the January meeting

26. What do we need to work on for November and December? • Establish a Southern Collaborative Page on SABE website

27. What do we need to work on for November and December? • Set up a Facebook page for the Southern Collaborate

28. What do we need to work on for November and December? • Set up a Twitter feed for the collaborative

29. What do we need to prepare for our January meeting? • Complete our State Demographic Survey • Prepare to present this at the Advisory Committee meeting • Complete at least 10 state assessment surveys to test our survey tool • See if Tennessee Advisory Members and Allies can locate sponsors for our dinner on Saturday evening and our lunch on Sunday.

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31. Important Information on our meeting in January • Our first Face to Face meeting will be in Nashville, TN on January 11-12, 2014 • Saturday, meet at 6:oo p.m. 8:00 p.m. • Sunday, meet at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. • We will meet at the • Breakfast is included • Please send Vicki Hicks Turnage an e-mail (vturnage33@yahoo.com) indicating names of Advisory Committee Members and Allies who will attend no later than December 12, 2014 • We will also plan to have conference call capability for any Allies who may not be able to attend. • This will be on Sunday from 11:30-12:30 to summarize the meeting

32. Questions and Answers • Advisory Board Members Questions and Comments will be addressed first • Allies and Supporters may then ask Questions

33. Thank you for attending If you have any questions, please contact: Self Advocates Becoming Empowered • ChaquetaStuckey-South Carolina chaquetastuckey2011@gmail.com • Glenda Hyman-Singletary-South Carolina ghsingletary@fcdsn.org • Vicki Hicks Turnage-Alabama, vturnage33@yahoo.com • Juliana Huereña-Arizona, • prinzjana17@gmail.com