Webinar: Know Your Rights - Introduction to Self-Advocacy
Webinar: Know Your Rights - Introduction to Self-Advocacy
Navigating the housing journey is challenging if you do not know what your fair housing rights are. This webinar will discuss the federal and state housing laws that protect you against discrimination.
Webinar:
Know Your Rights: Introduction to Self-Advocacy
Join us for a live webinar
If you have a disability, you may know the challenges we all face to advocate on our own behalf. Learn how to regain control of your life by applying new self - advocacy skills. Find out how to develop a self - advocacy plan and advocate to achieve your own goals.
*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental disabilities.
Live Caption and ASL Interpreter Available
When:
November 22, 2021
11:00 AM
Pacific Standard Time
About the webinar:
Join this webinar to learn how to develop a Self - Advocacy Action plan and successfully carry out the plan. Learn to identify your own strengths and how you can take steps on your new Self – Advocacy journey. During this presentation, we will discuss:
- What is Self- Advocacy?
- Why is it Important?
- Steps Toward Self- Advocacy
- Self- Advocacy in Action
Speaker:
Claire Haider (they/them/theirs) is a hearing person with lived experience with mental illness and experience navigating the mental health system. They have known American Sign Language for almost fifteen years and have experience working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. Currently they are working for the California Office of Patients’ Rights (COPR) and Peer Self-Advocacy Program (PSA) at Disability Rights California, working with their peers to advocate for patient’s rights and teach self-advocacy skills in the community.