Competencies & Skill Sets
Table of Contents
Competencies
In this sixth session of DC Advocacy Partners, participants will begin to understand:
- The components of a healthy lifestyle and how this applies to individuals with developmental disabilities
- The Affordable Care Act and how people with disabilities are impacted by it
- The healthcare and wellness systems, services, and networks in DC
- What barriers exists for people with disabilities to live a healthy lifestyle
- Medicaid and Medicare policies nationally and in DC
Skill sets
Partners will begin to learn to:
- Build skills for delivering a testimony
- Evaluate what makes for a quality testimony
- Use a resource effectively in a testimony
Agenda
Speakers
Cheryl Fish-Parcham
Private Insurance Program Director, Families USA
Christina Chauvenet
Executive Director, Community Foodworks
Karl Cooper
Project Manager, American Association on Health and Disability
Handouts
Health Living & Disability from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Health Transitions Policy Brief from the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the US Department of Labor
Health Care Transitions Policy Brief from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)
Affordable Care Act & Disability from The White House
Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Eligibility, and Disability by The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
DC Exercise: Play DC Master Plan from DC Department of Parks and Recreation