REMINDER: Please join us NOW MAY 17, 2017 at 3:00pm ET
May 17, 2017 at 3pm ET
NACDD Member Services Committee webinar—Disability Awareness Training (DAT) with David Whalen
The ability to accurately and appropriately respond to individuals with disabilities has posed varying challenges to first responders across the country. High profile cases have exposed the need for more involved
awareness and education. Niagara University has developed the nation’s only comprehensive disability awareness training program for law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical services, and 911 telecommunicators. It has been successfully implemented in
the New York through funding from the NYS DDPC, and is currently progressing in Missouri through a grant from the MO CDD.
This webinar will introduce the program, how NU customizes it per state, the process to establishing it within state offices and associations, and the role of first responders and the disability community to
make it standard and sustainable.
David Whalen founded Disability Awareness Training (DAT) in September 2004 and has since conducted over 600 sessions. He has worked in the
disability field his entire career, with his first 17 years at Niagara County (NY) ARC. Dave is the President of the Board of the Williamsville Special Education Parent Teacher Student Association (SEPTSA), past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Parent
Network of WNY, Chair of the Town of Amherst’s Committee on Disabilities, co-founder of Access Buffalo, a certified ADA trainer through the Region II Northeast ADA center, Commissioner of Central Amherst Little League Challenger baseball, and past member of
the NYS Independent Living Council. In 2014 NYS DDPC awarded NU with the Forging Pathways Award and in 2016 Western New York Deaf Access services awarded Dave Deaf Advocate of the Year.
To join: 800-832-0736; passcode *4880400# and http://nacdd.adobeconnect.com/dat/
Thanks so much
Robin
Robin Troutman
Deputy Director
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
202.506.5813 Ext. 105 (Phone)
202.506.5846 (Fax)