Description

This conference will define multicultural awareness and focus on the values, principles, attitudes, and policies impacting the delivery of disability services to culturally diverse individuals and their families. The content will focus on immigrants and refugees with disabilities in Tennessee.

Guest speakers and events will include:

• Dr. Katherine Donato
  Chair, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University


• Will Pedigo
  Associate Producer, Next Door Neighbors, Nashville Public Television


• Panel Presentation:
  Disability & Resettlement Services in Tennessee will include:
  • Tennessee Office of Resettlement
  • World Relief
  • Tennessee Disability Pathfinder
  
  
• Dr. Arie Nettles
  Director, Office of Inclusion and Health Equity, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Date:

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Time:

8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Location:

Lipscomb University
One University Park Drive
Ezell Building, Room 363
Nashville, Tennessee

Registration:

NOTE: AS OF OCTOBER 15, REGISTRATION IS AT CAPACITY AND IS THEREFORE CLOSED.

Continuing Education Credits:

Available for social workers only.

Sponsors and Partners:

• Tennessee Disability Pathfinder, a project of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
• Lipscomb University

For more information, contact:

Carolina Meyerson at (615) 400-4422
carolina.meyerson@vanderbilt.edu