The Citizen-Centered Leadership Development Community of Practice series is a unique combination of self-paced distance learning study, robust field work, interactive class assignments and live webcast instruction designed to advance theoretic and skill-based learning leading to quality outcomes in the lives of people with disabilities.

This webinar explores the differences in employment rates between persons with and without disabilities in 15 developing countries using the World Health Survey. These countries include: seven countries in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Zambia, Zimbabwe), four countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Laos, Pakistan, Philippines) and four countries in South America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Paraguay). Participants in this webinar will explore the findings of this study, including:

• People with disabilities have lower employment rates than persons without disabilities in nine countries;
• Across countries, disability gaps in employment rates are more often found for men than women;
• The largest disability gap in employment rates is found for persons with multiple disabilities; and,
• For countries with a disability gap, results from a logistic decomposition suggest that observable characteristics of persons with/without disabilities do not explain most of the gap.

Through this training the audience will learn the health and housing rights of people with disabilities.

The Great Lakes and Pacific ADA Centers on behalf of the ADA National Network are pleased to announce the 2012 Accessible Technology Webinar Series. Electronic information and communications technology have become essential tools in all areas of our lives and working environments today, and are particularly important to people with disabilities by providing equal access to the workplace and social media. Please join us for our 2012 webinar series as we explore some of the latest technological trends and their accessibility to people with disabilities. All sessions are free and scheduled for 2-3:30pm Eastern/1-2:30pm Central/12-1:30pm Mountain/11-12:30pm Pacific utilizing the ElluminateLive! webinar platform. Questions regarding these programs should be directed to: ADA Conferences 877-232-1990 (V/TTY) adaconferences@adagreatlakes.org

Please join us on Tuesday December 11th from 5:00 to 6:30 for the webinar “After Graduation the Next Steps to Staying Connected”. That night we will officially welcome the class of 2012 into our group of ever growing graduates. We will be discussing a bit of Partners in Policymaking program history. We will also explore how we are applying the program to today’s world and what that means for all of our graduates. We will be talking about the different ways grads can come together and stay connected. We hope to “see” you there!