Life in the Community

Free Conference and Resource Fair

For people with developmental disabilities Where and how to live, learn, work and play!

Who Should Come? Students & Adults with disabilities, families, and interested community members in the Greater Richmond Area and beyond

When: Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m.

Where: Richmond Times-Dispatch Hanover Plant 8460 Times-Dispatch Blvd. Mechanicsville, VA 23116
From 295 Exit 41 A/301 North, right onto Times-Dispatch Blvd.

Workshops & Resource Fair Schedule:

8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 9 a.m. 11 a .m. 11:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. Registration & Resource Fair - exhibitors on back Disability Benefits and Planning/Age of Majority
Bradford Hulcher, Autism Society of Central Virginia

Employment
Paul Wehman, Ph.D., VCU & Rehabilitation Research & Training Center

1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m.

Residential Options Panel Post Secondary Education Panel *No advanced registration required

Sponsored By: Autism Society, Central VA - 804-257-0192 Email: asacv@aol.com Down Syndrome Association of Greater Richmond - 804-525-7731 Email: dsagrstepup@yahoo.com Hanover Arc - 804-798-2400 Email: info@hanoverarc.org

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Paul Wehman, Ph.D. Keynote Speaker

Director of Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center

As one of the original founders of supported employment, Dr. Wehman has worked closely with business and industry since 1980 and is an internationally recognized and honored expert. He is also the father of two young adults with disabilities and brings a strong parental as well as business perspective to his work. He has spoken locally, nationally and internationally to professionals, parents, advocates and businesses on transition and employment for people with autism, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and other developmental disabilities. On a daily basis he works with individuals with disabilities, communicates regularly with professionals in the world of business related to disability and diversity, and is active in teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, and doctoral students in rehabilitation medicine, special education, rehabilitation and psychology. Dr. Wehman's major focus now is on expanding the partnerships with businesses of all sizes so that more persons with disabilities will gain entrance into the workplace and retain employment successful.

Resource Fair Exhibitors

Arc South of the James
APSE

LArche Medical Home Plus Parent Resource Centers Project Life Saver Resources for Independent Living Richmond House and SNAP Richmond Residential Services Skills Development Center Social Security Administration Special Olympics The Choice Group UNIQUE4LIFE vaACCSES VA START VCUACE-IT Young Life Capernaum & Friends for Life

Autism Society of Central Virginia! Blue Ridge Residential Services Charterhouse School Commonwealth Community Trust Community Services Boards and Richmond Behavioral Health Authority Dept. of Aging and Rehabilitative Services Dominion Waiver Services Down Syndrome Association of Greater Richmond Easter Seals & UCP George Mason University Hanover Arc Horses In Service Im Determined - VCU J. Sargeant Reynolds Comm. College PAVE Program

Thanks to our Exhibitors & Conference Co-Sponsors