From Disability through Work Ability... Building Bridges
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Make plans to join us on October 23, 2008 at the Hoaglund-Pincus Conference Center
222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545
Join us for presentation, discussion, and networking around key disability and employability topics, including:
- Improving Vocational Outcomes for TANF Recipients --Vermont REACH
- Cultural Diversity and Sensitivity
- Domestic Violence -- Impact on Disability and Employability
- Vocational Outcomes for People with Serious Mental Illness -- a panel discussion
- Project SAFE -- helping homeless families with trauma history achieve economic self sufficiency
Featured Presentations
Keynote Speaker - Jean McGuire, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary, Office of Disability Policy and Programs, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Local Hotel information
Hotel rooms are available for 10/22/08 and 10/23/08 at the Beechwood Hotel in nearby Worcester at a rate of $130/night. Please call 508-754-5789 and mention the UMass Disability Conference when making your reservation.
Directions to the Beechwood 
Registration Information
Conference rate: $99; early bird special $75 if registered by 9/15/08. Registration information coming soon!
Contact Information
For more information on the From Disability through Work Ability... Building Bridges conference, please contact:
Katherine Edwards
508.721.7278
Katherine.Edwards@umassmed.edu.
The Disability Evaluation Services program thanks the following partners for their help in planning this event:
Commonwealth Medicine and the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School
UMass Boston Institute of Community Inclusion (ICI)
Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance
Massachusetts Office of Medicaid
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Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Disability Evaluation Services Program.