DD Council Network,

Please see the information below and attached for the AUCD Leadership Academy.

You are invited to consider leaders and emerging leaders in your networks who might be a good fit for the 2020 AUCD Leadership Academy, a year-long program designed to enhance the skills of current and emerging leaders from the disability network to build coalitions to improve systems of supports and services. See the attached flyer for additional information.

The deadline for applications for the 2020 AUCD Leadership Academy is Friday, March 2^nd 2020. If you are considering encouraging someone in your center to apply but are not sure yet, you might consider viewing the archive of the informational webinar that was held last week. The webinar included an overview of the goals of the academy and the application process. It also featured Academy alumni sharing how they continue to benefit from the academy and the connections that were made both during and after the week in Atlanta.

Click this link to begin your 2020 AUCD Leadership Academy Application: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/aucdleadacademy/

What makes the academy curriculum unique is the commitment to training a cross-generational, cross-functional cadre of leaders and emerging leaders with and without disabilities. The academy offers participants an opportunity to consider their location within the disability and civil rights movements, experience approaches for considering their strengths and inspiring the use of the strengths in others and gain insight into tools and skills that will support working within and across systems to support inclusion of people with disabilities.

AUCD offers this leadership training opportunity in partnership with the Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University. The upcoming year is the fourth year of the academy. Past participants have described the experience this way:

• The entire experience was transformational for me. 
• I feel so very, very blessed and grateful for the experience.  I will carry it with me forever. All of you did an amazing job pulling together such a diverse group of people and creating a community and organizing change. 
• There were many valuable tools learned from the Leadership Academy but learning from the people who participated alongside and were willing to share their stories and journey were invaluable!
• Great opportunity for a new P & A staff.  I am looking forward to continued engagement with the AUCD community and encouraging leadership to think about ways we can partner with the UCEDD's.

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Sarah DeMaio, MSW (she/her/hers)

Senior Manager

Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)

1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1000

Silver Spring, MD 20910

240-821-9463

www.aucd.org

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