DuPage Family Disability Network

The evening will start at 6:30 pm

Presentation: Division of Rehabilitation And Link2 Community

DuPage Family Disability Network  (DFDN)
Wednesday, March 18, 2015    Open Meeting
Lisle  Library
Lisle, IL 60532
6:30pm to 8:45pm

DFDN is pleased to  present information ON:

IL Department of Human Services:Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)

AND

The Everyone Work! Project:
Customized Employment, Innovation & Collaboration

We are pleased to welcome back Mary Beth Scholten, DHS-DRS
AND
For the first time Dr. Janice Wienstien, Total Link2 Community

From DHS_DRS:
What can  we expect from our DRS as we move into 2015 and beyond for Adult
services?

The process and roles.

MaryBeth will touch briefly on the following topics and how the DHS will
move forward in addressing the needs of persons individual has a most
significant disability, a very significant disability. (Some of these
programs are pilots)

Some of the new directions/Goals:

Discuss the Illinois Employment First Blueprint
-DD/VR collaboration
-Changes in Supported employment
-The Discovery Process
-Vision Quest

-Project Search (Transition Program)

Staff Development and Training

Customized Employment: Everyone Works!

The Everyone Works! Project is funded in part by the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities as a way to bring the best practice of customized employment to the state of Illinois.  Through partnership with key stakeholders including; schools, families and community agencies, Total Link2 Community has developed competitive, inclusive employment for more than 30 individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  Janice Weinstein will share stories about stakeholders working together to make employment happen for everyone.  Janice will review the process of customized employment, which encompasses 6 key steps; discovery of personal genius, capturing discovery through profiles, person centered collaboration, portfolio development and job development.  Participants will learn firsthand what this process looks like and how we can create partnerships in order to develop and sustain inclusive employment.

DuPage Family Disability Network is offering an opportunity to present these topics and have questions answered at our March 18, 2015 meeting.

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Mary Beth Scholten – The Assistant Bureau  Chief (ABC) for Region 2 with the
Division of Rehabilitation Services,  which covers the DuPage area.
Previous to this position I was the  Rehabilitation Services Supervisor in
the Rockford VR office. I’ve been  with the state for over 27 years.

Janice Weinstein, Psy,D. is the executive director of  Total Link2 Community.  Janice is responsible for overseeing the Everyone Works! project, an investment of the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities (ICDD).  She also oversees a second employment project funded by and in collaboration with the Department of Rehabilitative Services – BIP.  This project is a pilot that incorporates Customized Employment and salient aspects of the IPS Model of Supported Employment for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Total Link2 Community has been instrumental in bringing Customized Employment to the state of Illinois by providing training to schools, agencies and private providers in partnership with the ICDD and the Department of Rehabilitative Services. Total Link2 Community has also worked closely with NSSED (Northern Suburban Special Education District Cooperative) to use the Discovery model with students in transition in order to create sustainable outcomes for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have more complex support needs.  Total Link2 Community has successfully used the model of customized employment to place 30 individuals with ID/DD in inclusive employment settings including micro-enterprise. Total Link2 Community also provides; monthly webinars, consultation and ongoing training for stakeholders committed to using the principles and strategies of Customized Employment.

Registration is required, e-mailing  below:

dfdn@dfdn.org
1.     Name:
2.     Number Attending:
3.     Parent or  Organization:

Look forward to seeing
everyone,

Board Members  of DFDN
2015

Facilities provided by:
Lisle Public Library
777  Front Street
Lisle IL 60532               Capacity:  95
630-971-1675

Thursday, February 26, 2015

DuPage Family Disability Network (DFDN)

Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
9:30am-11:30am. Registration will start at 9:00am.

Fellowship Center
815 S. Washington St
Naperville, IL 60540

We hope you can all make it to learn how to
better access your community.

The Disability Ministry of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church presents
“Brian Rubin, the Facts about the ABLE Act”

A Special Needs Trust or Able Account… how do we choose when we want to
protect the financial interests of our loved ones with disabilities.
Protecting your child with a disability with a Special Needs Trust is
important.

Now that Congress has approved the ABLE Act, the question for families is
whether to do an ABLE Account or a Special Needs Trust.
It is all very complicated for the lay person.

Brian Rubin is a well respected attorney who has dedicated his legal career
to the financial protection of individuals with disabilities.
He will outline the need for a trust for a person with a disability and
provide information on the pros and cons of the newly approved ABLE Act.
Brian Rubin, is an Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of the
Special Needs Alliance, and is President of the Arc of Illinois.

Please visit his web site at www.rubinlaw.com.

To register for the February 26 presentation, click on this link.
https://secure.accessacs.com/access/eventlogin.aspx?id=hsC25lt38GAS9kGGS7yk9A==&site=143758&ReturnUrl=events%2fwz_people.aspx&ChurchID=2990&EventID=80787&sn=143758

Cindi Swanson
Disabilities Ministry Coordinator
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Naperville, IL

DuPage Family Disability Network (DFDN)
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Open Meeting
Lisle Library
Lisle, IL 60532
6:45pm to 8:45pm

This is DFDN’s inaugural meeting for this
year. We hope you can all make it to learn how to better access your
community.

How do we get around town if we don’t drive, if
because of our disability we cannot drive and/or cannot manage fixed bus
routs again because of our disability?
Work, volunteer, play all part of everyone’s life depend on access to transportation.

DFDN is pleased to present information ON:

Para transit, Ride DuPage
These can be the answer for many who cannot drive.
There are para transit opportunities available to
people with disabilities in DuPage county.

This resource is particularly important if you have a
student in a public school transition program who is not going to drive.
This presentation should offer the information needed to apply for para
transit service and learn how to advocate for transportation.

Our presenter Mary Keating, Director dupage county community services
Mary has had a major part in sculpting Ride DuPage
and an active advocate for para transit in DuPage county for more than a
decade.

She will be presenting the various options at the
September 10, 2014 DFDN meeting.

Mary Keating
Director DuPage
county community services

Look forward to seeing everyone

Registration is required, e-mailing below:

dfdn@dfdn.org
1. Name:
2. Number Attending:
3. Parent or Organization:

Look forward to seeing
everyone,

Board Members of DFDN
2014

Facilities provided by:
Lisle Public Library
777 Front Street
Lisle IL 60532 Capacity: 95
630-971-1675

Spring is here.
TAXes are done.

                    DuPage Family Disability Network  (DFDN)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 Open Meeting
                                  Lisle  Library
                                  Lisle, IL 60532
                                  6:45pm to 8:45pm

        DFDN is pleased to  present information ON:

IL Department of Human Services:Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)

We are pleased to welcome back Mary Beth Scholten.

                             Topic:     22 AND Beyond

What can  we expect from our DRS counselor for Adult services?

The process and roles.

The role of the  Agency chosen and job coach.
                                 Development & Job Search
How to be person centered even in this environment.

How to handle concerns between parties.

There are  still the questions regarding individuals (or guardians) who
question the  degree of disability.  Are they in a‘”Catch 22”if they are
too  disabled to qualify or not disabled enough. Especially now that
Illinois has passed the "EMPLOYMENT 1ST" Legislation and is embarking
on Customized Employment.

Questions about the individual who have the Home Based Community Waiver or
CILA funding?

How the DHS will move forward in addressing the needs of persons dually
diagnosed: Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness.

DuPage Family Disability Network is offering an opportunity to have
questions like these and others you may have answered at our April 16th,
2014 meeting when out guest speaker is a staff member from the
Department of Human Services – Division of Rehabilitation  (DHS-DRS.)

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Mary Beth Scholten - The Assistant Bureau  Chief (ABC) for Region 2 with the
Division of Rehabilitation Services,  which covers the DuPage area.
Previous to this position I was the  Rehabilitation Services Supervisor in
the Rockford VR office. I’ve been  with the state for over 25 years.

Registration is required, e-mailing  below:

dfdn@dfdn.org
1.     Name:
2.     Number Attending:
3.     Parent or  Organization:

Look forward to seeing
everyone,

Board Members  of DFDN
2014

Facilities provided by:
Lisle Public Library
777  Front Street
Lisle IL 60532               Capacity:  95
630-971-1675
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DuPage Family Disability Network (DFDN)

Invites you to the first meeting of 2013 - 2014
 Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Open
                     7 p.m.- 9 p.m.

DFDN is pleased to present information ON:

**Please take note of the special location change in this months meeting!***

                   Topic:  SMART 911 & SAFETY

***********SAFETY TOWN, Naperville Il.**************

“I never thought this would happen to us”

Words spoken by family members who were unaware of a safety condition that
caused an injury or worse.

The DuPage Family Disability Network will host

Smart 911
John Mostaccio, Communications Manager, DU-COMM, DuPage County

Kala Considine, Communications Commander, Naperville


Safety
Soraya McLaughlin Public Education Specialist, Naperville

Safety is the biggest concern we have for our family members who have
disabilities.

Today more and more of our family members with challenges are accessing
the community and many of them carry cell phones. Whether they are at
work, home, at day program, or other social events our loved ones with
disabilities need safety tools and strategies that are straightforward and
intuitive.

DuPage County now has a national safety program for cell phone users.

It is called "Smart 911”

This is an add on for both DuPage County and Naperville to the already
enhanced 911. It affords Public Safety 911 Dispatchers much more
information about the caller who is in an emergency. Than what is
currently available.

Statistics tell us a majority of emergency calls are being made by cell
phones. This newest technology can let a dispatcher inform police
significant information about the caller.

DFDN will hear from both the city and county communications leaders as
well as a representative from the company that designed Smart 911.

It only works however, if we sign up.

Safety
Soraya McLaughlin is the Public Education Specialist for Naperville. She
will give tools to help us create safer environments inside and outside
our homes, CILAs for our family members with disabilities.

Make sure you register for this informative presentation.

The October DFDN meeting is being held at Naperville’s Safety Town

1320 Aurora Avenue

Naperville, Il 60540                       Capacity:  80

(It is served by the same driveway as the Police and Fire Buildings and is
located on The east end of the property)

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Registration is required, e-mailing below:

dfdn@dfdn.org
 1.     Name:
 2.     Number Attending:
 3.     Parent or Organization:

Look forward to seeing
 everyone,

Board Members of DFDN
 2013