Disability Awareness in Refugee Communities

Disability Awareness in Refugee Communities

Join us for a virtual session that explores disability in refugee communities

By Michigan Disability Rights Coalition

Date and time

Monday, June 24 · 3 - 4:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

Disability Awareness in Refugee Communities

We invite the community to a virtual public awareness training session that explores disability in refugee communities. This training will focus on topics relevant to refugees with disabilities, including the history of refugees with disabilities, definition of disability and disability pride, as well as conversations about language, ableism, internalized ableism, and cultural competency/humility.

This session will be interactive with time for questions, resource sharing, and brainstorming!

Details:

Date: Monday, June 24th, 2024

T ime: 6pm - 7:30pm

P lace: Virtual Zoom,

ASL and CART Captioning will be provided

Presenters: Michigan Disability Rights Coalition's LEAD Program Staff: Priscilla Cano and Feliece Turner

REGISTER TODAY FOR ACCESS TO THE LIVE SESSION

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For more information about MDRC, please visit our website: https://mymdrc.org

The LEAD Program is a program of Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC) funded by the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council; our work is by people with disabilities for people with disabilities and their allies. Our following mission is woven into everything we do: “MDRC cultivates disability pride and strengthens the disability movement by recognizing disability as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity while collaborating to dismantle all forms of oppression.” For more information about MDRC, please visit our website: https://mymdrc.org

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Michigan Disability Rights Coalition

Michigan Disability Rights Coalition is a 37-year-old statewide nonprofit collaborative of people with disabilities including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), individuals without disabilities, and groups committed to building inclusive communities.

We believe inclusion of people with disabilities cannot be fully realized without also ending all forms of violence like: racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, heterosexism and all other forms of oppression.