Web cast Today Wednesday on Advocating for Persons with Disabilities as a Housing Priority

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Tara Bremer wrote: Tara BremerDirector of ProgramsFamily Network on Disabilities of Florida, Inc.2735 Whitney Rd.Clearwater, FL 33760/Fax:www.fndfl.org Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:49 PMTo: ilru@...Subject: Web cast Wednesday on Advocating for Persons with Disabilities as a Housing PriorityPlease join the DBTAC - Southwest ADA Center at ILRU for a Web cast onadvocating for persons with disabilities as a housing priority.Barbara Chandler will present the Web cast "Advocating for Persons

withDisabilities as a Housing Priority: Discussion of Proactive Ways toProviding Accessible Housing." on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 3:00pm Eastern; 2:00pm Central; 1:00pm Mountain; 12:00pm Pacific; 11:00am Alaska; 9:00am Hawaii.This Web cast will outline federal housing funding programs, such as public housing, Community Development Block Grant, HOME and Section 8. Mrs. Chandler will also provide information on other federal requirements such as the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing and affirmatively furthering fair housing mandates as they relate to providing housing for persons with disabilities and their families. She will also provide pragmatic strategies for organizing and having meaningful input into local/state housing decisions using federal funding.Barbara Chandler is the Housing Program Director for Adaptive Environments.She manages the Fair Housing Accessibility First Design and

ConstructionResource Center (DCRC) a nationwide service that provides technicalassistance on compliance with the federal Fair Housing Act requirements. Ms. Chandler has advocated for persons with disabilities, elders, victims ofdomestic violence and low-income families for twenty-five years. She wasformerly the Policy Analyst for the City of Boston Office of Civil Rights,where she dealt with fair housing, disability and civil rights issues. Shewas the past Director of the Coordinated Aging, Rehabilitation andDisability Services Project (CARDS) for the Executive Office of ElderAffairs and as well as a Planner with the Massachusetts DevelopmentalDisabilities Council. She has served on the Massachusetts ArchitecturalAccess Board and sits on the Board of Director for the Citizens Housing andAffordable Planning Association (CHAPA). She has been recognized for herhousing advocacy work for persons with disabilities by CHAPA,

receivingtheir 1994 Community Service Award, and the Massachusetts Department ofMental Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology fromthe University of Mass: Dartmouth. She did her graduate studies in the fieldof sociology at Indiana State University.To link to this Web cast and download accompanying materials visit: http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/calendar.htmlFor instructions on how to access a Web cast visit: http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/instructions.htmlPlease visit this site ahead of time to test and ensure your computer isconfigured and updated to participate in the Web cast.For technical assistance, please check out our FAQs (frequently askedquestions) at: http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/FAQ.htmlor contact a Web cast team member at webcast@... or (v/tty).This Web cast is supported through the DBTAC - Southwest ADA

Center, aproject of ILRU. Southwest ADA Center (http://www.SouthwestADA.org) is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide training, technical assistance and materials dissemination on the ADA and other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department of Education.The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and noendorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.We hope to see you on Wednesday, November 14, 2007!

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