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A University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)

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Assessing Your Strengths

Learn to understand your natural abilities and how to put your strengths to use? Do you know how to use your personal style to help others help you succeed? ...You will learn ...

How to be the most effective when you are working with others.
What you can do to use your strengths, and the strengths of other people to solve problems.

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Learn strategies for solving problems and making decisions that affect your life. Would you like to learn to have more control at meetings you attend? ...You will learn…

Strategies for making decisions in your life.
How to solve problems that you may be experiencing.
How to gain more control at meetings.

Word Power

What we say about ourselves and others is a powerful demonstration of how we shape our image personally and collectively. If we are going to step outside our labels, how do we do it without tripping? ...You will learn….

How to represent yourself and others in ways that are appropriate.
"People First" and "Family Supportive" language.

Understanding State-of-the-State

Are you aware of what services are available to you? Do you understand the idea and reality of policy and law? Do you know how to best influence the system and leave an impact? ...You will learn….

What services are out there and what systems rule.
How to look at a piece of legislation or law and determine it's true impact.
Successful strategies of influencing the system in ways that matter to you.

Effective Communication

Learn to be more confident in expressing your feelings and ideas. Do you want to know how to express your needs in ways that are easily understood? .... You will learn . . .

How to ask clearer questions and get clear answers.
How to negotiate for your interests, and better understand the interest of the other person.
How to use effective communication to participate and be more involved in your community.

The Successful Meeting

Do you want to know how to reveal the true agenda of a meeting, have your input considered, and follow up to achieve desired outcomes? ....You will learn. . .

How to get a clear answer to this question, Why are we meeting?
How to use Robert's Rules of Order as a tool to manage the meeting, even if you're not in charge.
How to handle the meeting that fails to produce useful outcomes.
How to turn meeting problems into meeting successes.

Team Dynamics & Process

Learn the most effective way to serve on a team, learn skills that will increase your team productivity. ...You will learn . .

About the interactions and unspoken behaviors that can influence the team.
How to determine who is really in charge on a team.

"HELP"

"Helping Practices" Help is not perceived as help if it is not what is needed when it is needed. . . . You will learn. . .

Ways to look at help behavior as a helper or "helpee".

The Advocacy Series

Part I - Personal Advocacy and Community Advocacy
Personal Advocacy: Learn how to represent yourself more effectively. Do you want to learn skills that will help you learn about making choices and advocating for change? . . .You will learn . . .

What Advocacy means to you.
About issue advocacy.
About family advocacy.
About self advocacy.


Community Advocacy: Learn how to become more involved in your community. Do you want to explore resources that will help you develop partnerships between you and your community? . . .You will learn . . .

How to develop a personal action plan to promote change in your community.
Ways of becoming active in your community.
What natural supports are available to you.

Part II "Story Advocacy"
Story Advocacy: Learn how to share a personal experience to advocate for yourself or others. What specific experiences do you share repeatedly? Who do you talk to? Who else might need to hear? . . .You will learn . . .

About the experience-issue match.
About getting organized.
How to create an action plan.