[Athen] Saturday at 3pm ET: Free webinar on self-directed services

[Lydia X. Z. Brown]

This Saturday, Nov 21 at 3pm ET, the Alliance for Citizen Directed Supports
is kicking off a new series of webinar meet-n-greet's with members of the
self-direction community. These meet-n-greet's are a chance to ask
questions and learn about the many complex aspects of starting, managing,
and advocating for self-direction. Our featured speaker this Saturday is
Caroline Signore. Caroline has been self-directing her supports as a
disabled, tetraplegic woman for over 15 years. She has a lot of tips and
advice to share about managing a team of support staff/caregivers, building
friendships and natural supports, and balancing a demanding career.
The webinar is free and ASL-interpreted. *Register now on Zoom!
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Learn about Self-Direction from Caroline Signore on November 21, at 3PM ET
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>

Join us for a meet-and-greet with our member Caroline Signore on November 21
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA> to
learn from her experience with self-directing her supports as a disabled,
tetraplegic woman. The webinar is free, and ASL interpreted.

She has a lot of tips and advice to share about managing a team of support
staff/caregivers, building friendships and natural supports, and balancing
a demanding career. She was recently featured in our self-direction
spotlight, which you can read on our website
<https://citizendirectedsupports.org/2020/10/10/self-direction-spotlight-with-caroline-signore/>
.

Here’s some reasons to attend:

   - Are you someone who requires assistance with daily living skills and
   wonder how to find trustworthy, high caliber people to hire, how to avoid
   constant staff turnover or burnout?
   - Are you contemplating managing your own personal care assistance?
   - Are you interested in reducing the number of hours you require
   assistance, and need help establishing community supports?
   - Are you a parent, sibling, friend or the head of an agency who
   supports people who have extensive daily support needs?
   - Do you or your family member wants to move out of an aggregate care
   facility and into a neighborhood?

If any of these descriptions fit you, or you have your own questions,
register today for our meet-n-greet!
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>
REGISTER HERE
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>
About Caroline:

Caroline is Deputy Director of the Division of Extramural Research, at the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD). In 1996, Caroline Signore had just finished her
residency training in obstetrics and gynecology and entered a private
practice in the Denver suburbs when she sustained a cervical spinal cord
injury in a motor vehicle accident. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and
she was 30 years old. Her injury is at the C6-C7 level, which means she is
tetraplegic: she has no sensation or motor function of the legs and torso,
and limited sensation and function of her arms and hands. She completed
inpatient rehabilitation in April of 1997 and since that time has brought
in personal care assistants to help with activities of daily living.

She has enjoyed the good fortune of independently employing a group of 3
caregivers who have been with her steadily for more than 15 years. Caroline
works full time and lives independently in the Northern Virginia suburbs of
Washington DC.

Register now and join Caroline for a chat on November 21, at 3pm ET.
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>
REGISTER HERE
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jky6CiLfQ5OdTddi97pqWA>
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