Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm MT Adjust your time zone accordingly.
Register now for this upcoming webinar sponsored by the Hands & Voices Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center
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Description:
Join the Hands & Voices Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center for a look at how to recruit and empower new family leaders from diverse, cultural backgrounds to become leaders in the systems that serve families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Drawing from their own experience as culturally diverse family leaders, Marbelly Barahona (LA Hands & Voices) and Lydia Hernandez (IL Hands & Voices) will engage attendees in a presentation that will share innovative strategies and creative solutions through different models, to support underrepresented families, as well as support diverse parent leadership development.
Objectives
· Learn and gain insight on how to develop and enhance your program’s reach, support and empowerment of diverse parents raising deaf or hard of hearing children through two examples in practice.
· Identify strategies and tips on how to recruit and empower diverse family leaders.
Primary Audience
Family leaders, family-based support organizations, Deaf-based organizations. EHDI program staff, EHDI systems stakeholders, and Pediatric Healthcare Professionals are also welcome.