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Centering Survivors with Disabilities in Your Organizational Policies (Part 1)

Event Date
Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 02:00PM

When survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors engage with your organization, they are necessarily engaging with the policies that guide the delivery of your services. Failure to account for the lived experiences of survivors with disabilities in your organizational polices results in delays in service provision, confusion among staff about what is allowed, safety concerns among survivors, the provision of inadequate or unsafe services, or the denial of services completely.

How would your victim service organization respond? Would you be prepared to allow a survivor with a disability have a paid personal care attendant provide services in your shelter? Have you considered how to address the tension between the need to have a service animal in shelter and other residents' fear or allergies? Would your organization be prepared to serve an adult survivor that has a guardian?

This webinar will examine key policies that victim service organizations should have in place to account for unique circumstances in the lives of survivors with disabilities, including personal care attendants, service animals and guardianship.

Event Contact Information

Event Contact Name
National Center on Ending Abuse of People with Disabilities