EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2005
Disability and Asset Building Communities Working Together
http://www.wid.org/equity
In the December EQUITY:
Building Assets for People with Disabilities One State at a Time
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity
FEATURE ARTICLE:
If You Build It, They Will Come:
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=fa
The Abilities Fund, Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services, The Employment
Policy Group
Three model programs in the state of Iowa are demonstrating how inclusive
asset building can be accomplished.
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PROGRAM OF THE MONTH:
Facilitating Financial Independence for People with Disabilities Through
Research: Law, Health Policy & Disability Center at the University of Iowa
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=pm
Phoebe Ball, J.D. and her colleagues at the LHPDC supply the academic arm of
Iowa's asset building programs for people with disabilities.
PROFILE OF THE MONTH:
Promoting an Asset Building Strategy for People with Disabilities
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=profile
Phoebe Ball, J.D. illustrates what an advocate for modern disability rights
looks like- an educated, financially knowledgeable, disabled mother striving
to empower people with disabilities in Iowa.
TIP OF THE MONTH:
Iowa's Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Program
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=tm
Why it is important to have a 'special' program for people with disabilities
wanting to start their own micro-businessess.
EQUITY Responds: WID Answers Your Questions
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=responds
I'm an Iowan entrepreneur with a disability and while my business is doing
well, housing is a serious problem. I want to own my own home, what
resources are there to help?
LEARNING & NETWORKING RESOURCES:
Informative websites of interest to both communities
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity-resource#current
CONFERENCES & EVENTS:
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=conf
World Institute on Disability (WID) is a non-profit public policy center
dedicated to the promotion of independence and full inclusion in society of
people with disabilities.
WID's Access to Assets (ATA) program provides training and technical
assistance to asset building and disability organizations seeking to improve
the inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction programs. In
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disabilities and conducts federal and state policy analysis on related
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