Welcome to Our New Website!
This is the official launch of the new Partners in Policymaking California (PIPCA) website. We will be posting news and information important to Partners graduates, current Partners participants and anyone else interested in advocacy for persons with disabilities.
If you have ideas or recommendations for our website, be sure to contact Jim Lockwood, PIPCA Coordinator by email at jim(a)pipcalifornia.org.
If you live in Los Angeles County and want to participate in the 2009 class of Partners in Policymaking, you can fill out an online application at http://www.pipcalifornia.org/2009-application/. You can also download the application in Spanish as
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Partners in Policymaking is an innovative, competency based leadership training program for adults with disabilities and parents of young children with developmental disabilities focused on “teaching best practices in disability, and the competencies of influencing public officials.”
History
The first Partners in Policymaking program was presented in Minnesota over twenty years ago by the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities. The program was designed to be a ground-breaking, innovative training program to teach parents and self-advocates the power of advocacy to change the way people with disabilities are supported, viewed, taught, live and work.
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