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The 28th Annual New Jersey Black Issues Leadership Convention
The 28th annual New Jersey Black Issues Leadership Convention will take place on October 7-9, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick NJ. The theme is Strengthening Families & Building Communities: Change We Can Believe In. A new component of this years conference is the Community Change Forum Awards & Brunch - an initiative to highlight programs and activities that promote positive change in our communities.
The NJBIC Board seeks to identify organizations that have developed innovative and effective programs that aim to reduce disparities, should be more widely supported, and which can be replicated by others. NJBIC believes that positive community change can be achieved by reducing or eliminating existing disparities in these four specific areas:
* Economic Security and Opportunity
* Education
* Health & Human Services
* Law,Justice & Public Safety
In support of your innovative ideas, submitted programs will be showcased throughout the convention and compiled into a resource guide for distribution. We welcome participation by a variety of organizations and encourage your support at the Community Change Forum Awards & Brunch on Saturday, October 9, 2010, when a number of projects will be selected for special recognition.
Inmate to Citizen
FINAL Tangible Results and Outcome Report
OVERVIEW OF THE INMATE TO CITIZEN PROJECT
Charged with the task embedded within a five-year strategic planning effort to infuse person-centered planning into three distinct state service delivery systems, the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council selected as one of its targets a population of people with intellectual disabilities who are significantly marginalized from the mainstream of community living, learning and earning. The focus for a system-impact project turned to the Special Needs Units of the New York State Correctional Services system.
Widening the Reach, Advocacy for All
Proposal to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Submitted by Jane Dunhamn, Committee member, 18 June 2010
Position: In the criminal justice system, the lack of services to people with non-apparent disabilities is discriminatory
The Problem at Street Level, from the Perspective of Providers
