“CLOSING THE GAP? Revisiting Health & Employment Disparities for People with Disabilities”
Friday, October 21 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Yale University, 17 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 101
This one-day conference is intended to facilitate conversation about issues of healthcare and employment disparities for people with disabilities. Bringing together participants from diverse academic disciplines, professions, government, business, advocacy groups, and the larger community, the conference will feature presentations and commentary by experts on the national scene, followed by informal breakout sessions with group discussion focusing on health and employment disparities for people with disabilities in the New Haven region. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, this conference also aims to produce specific suggestions for collaborative follow-up activities.
The event is free and open to the general public, but registration is required.**
**Registration for this conference has reached maximum capacity and is now closed. Please email bioethics.center@yale.edu if you would like to be put on a waitlist.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
| 8:30 AM | Conference Registration, 17 Hillhouse Avenue, Lobby |
| 9:00 AM |
First Plenary Session: Welcoming Statements (17 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 101) Stephen Latham, Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center The Honorable Ted Kennedy, Jr., Connecticut State Senator, 12th District |
| 9:15 AM |
“Brick by Brick: A Disability History of Work and Health Disparities” Naomi Rogers, Ph.D., Professor, History of Medicine, Yale University Discussant: James Berger, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, English and American Studies, Yale University |
| 10:00 AM |
“Health Disparities in People with Disabilities: A Hidden Public Health Problem” Deborah Klein Walker, Ed.D., Vice-President, Senior Fellow Public Health and Epidemiology, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA Discussant: Michael Ulrich, J.D., M.P.H., Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Health Law, Yale Law School |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 AM |
“Transition Strategies for Students with Disabilities to Build Competitive Employment Skills” Valerie Brooke, M.Ed., Chair, Subcommittee on Transition, Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for People with Disabilities, U.S. Department of Labor, Director of Training Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation and Research Training Center Discussant: Patricia Anderson, Ph.D., Education Consultant/State Transition Coordinator, CT State Department of Education/Bureau of Special Education, and Department of Rehabilitation Services/Bureau of Rehabilitation Services |
| 12:00 PM |
“Health to Employment to Health: A Beneficial and Cost-Effective Cycle for People with Disabilities” Nanette Goodman, M.S., National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities (LEAD) Discussant: Myra Scott, Department of Rehabilitation Services, State of Connecticut |
| 12:45 PM | Lunch (A box/bag lunch will be provided for the breakout sessions) |
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1:00 to |
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Focus on New Haven 1) Disparities in Health and Health Care (17 Hillhouse, Room 115) Presentation: “Health Disparities for People with Disabilities in New Haven” Facililtator: Michelle Duprey, J.D., Director, Department of Services for Persons with Disabilities, New Haven, Connecticut 2) Disparities in Employment Opportunities (17 Hillhouse, Room 113/05) Presentation: “Disparities in Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities in New Haven” Facilitator: Marc Anthony Gallucci, Esq., Executive Director, Center for Disability Rights, West Haven, Connecticut |
| 2:30 PM |
Second Plenary Session (17 Hillhouse, Room 101) Presentation: “Getting with the Program: The Diversity of Disability Studies Programs in the U.S.” Katherrine Healey, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University Followed by Reports from Breakout Groups & General Discussion |
| 3:30 PM |
Closing Remarks: Julius Landwirth, M.D., J.D., Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics |
| 4:00 PM | Adjournment |
Sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Whitney Humanities Center Disabilities Studies Working Group, and the DiversAbility at Yale (DAY) Affinity Group, with special thanks to Judy York, Director of the Yale Resource Office on Disabilities.