Howard and his team at the National Ramah Tikvah Network gave two recent presentations–to Foundation for Jewish Camp and to UJA (New York) Task Force on Disabilities on “Vocational Support for Staff with Disabilities at Jewish Summer Camps.”
New Jewish Disability Inclusion Toolkit + Great Events
“The Jewish Disability Inclusion toolkit is a comprehensive resource which brings together not only RespectAbility’s near decade of work on this issue, but the work of key partners including Howard Blas, Gateways: Access to Jewish Education, and Matan,” said Matan Koch, Vice President for Workforce, Leadership and Faith Programs at RespectAbility.
“It is an example of the new paradigm of collaboration sweeping the Jewish disability inclusion community.” Here is a link to the tool kit: https://www.respectability.org/jewish-toolkit/#more-30843
I presented at this conference:
Creative Workforce Solutions Summit
Traveling Across the US In Search of Innovative Job Sites for People with Disabilities
CEUs available from CRCC, APD, APSETrack 3: Community Supports
Presentation will address WHY People with disabilities work (financial, social, physical, etc) and will explore the range of options, including book stores, pizza stores, coffee shops, assembling Ikea furniture, bicycle repair, and reading mammograms.
Global Day of Jewish Learning 2021
I am honored to present “Inclusion and the Jewish Tradition” at the Limmud “Global Day of Jewish Learning.” Watch at 10 am ET on November 7th! https://limmudna.org/globalday/.
The Global Day of Jewish Learning – Limmud North America Hundreds of communities, large and small, join together for one day of intercontinental Jewish learning, powered by Limmud. Launched in 2010 as an effort to connect Jews around the world in mutual appreciation of Jewish wisdom, the Global Day of Jewish Learning is inspired by the vision and leadership of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz z”. limmudna.org