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About the Summit

Summit 2005 is organized around three themes: Leadership, Community Membership and Self Determination, and Enhancing the Quality of Supports and Services. Each theme will be explored in a plenary session designed to inspire and provide new ways of thinking about the topic. Plenary sessions are followed by breakout sessions specific to the theme. Each breakout is led by a moderator, who integrates the perspectives of self advocates and family members, service providers, researchers, and public policy leaders into the discussion of the topic.

The highlight of the Summit is an interactive Town Hall presentation. Moderated by Frank Sesno, CNN Special Correspondent, the Town Hall provides attendees with an opportunity to voice opinions and build consensus around a proactive and forward thinking community action agenda about building community capacity to support full participation. Through a sponsorship from NISH, attendees at the Town Hall will use electronic polling equipment so that perspectives and trends among audience members can be accurately captured and shared.

Following the Town Hall meeting, State Team Leaders will meet to brainstorm strategies for implementing the action agenda in their respective states. Leaders of the Founding organizations will meet for a one-day retreat on September 24 to create partnership strategies for advancing the action agenda.

About State Teams

The Alliance for Full Participation’s efforts are supported by a national coalition of State Teams. Each team is comprised of a coalition of self advocates and family members, service providers, researchers, and policy leaders. These teams have been meeting to identify challenges and barriers to full participation within their state and to identify key areas of priority. State Teams will be a critical part of enacting the Summit’s Action Agenda within their communities. State Teams will share their work in a poster session in the Exhibit Hall on Friday, September 23, from 11:30 am – 12:45 pm. State Team members will have the option of meeting from 3:30-5:30 pm to discuss the outcomes of the Summit prior to returning home.