Violence and Disability Teleconference by NYLN Ap

Thursday, April 22, 2010

It is that time of year again!  Spring is in the air, and the National Youth Leadership Network is preparing for our next webcast.

This webcast will be titled “Violence and Hate Crimes Against People with Disabilities.”  It will be on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 7 PM EST.  There will be a panel of speakers discussing violence and and how youth with disabilities often face this issue.

Join us! To register, please visit NYLN.org and click the link at the bottom.

Date: Thursday, April 22 2010

Time: 7:00 pm EST, 6:00 pm CST, 5:00 pm MST, 4:00 PST, 2:00 pm Hawaii

Speakers:
Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone, Director of Advocacy with the Autism Women’s Network
Christine Wilk, Organizer with Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA)
Nathan Say, long-time anti-violence disability activist and poet

This webcast is offered for free through the National Youth Leadership Network. NYLN is a youth-driven, youth-led organization.  We teach young people how to advocate.  Our goal is to make sure that young people with disabilities know how to set and reach their own goals.
For more information, visit the National Youth Leadership Network at www.nyln.org.  You can also contact Betsy Valnes, NYLN Executive Director, at 1-866-480-6565 or betsy@nyln.org.

The following Link is currently correct for this event: Spring Webcast

Please Note that there is captioning available through the Web for this event!