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- 1.25.10
NYS Office of Mental Health Commissioner Michael Hogan to lecture on “Inclusion, Advocacy, And Administration: Is An SU Education Sufficient?”
•Presenter Biosketch:
Michael Hogan
•Press Release:
Commissioner Hogan to visit BBI and lecture to University community | Invitation: Invitation to Commissioner Hogan’s lecture
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium-Newhouse III, Syracuse University
- 1.7.10
Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling presented financial tips for kicking off 2010 to Peer Networking Group of Central NY - a disability advocacy support organization for persons with mental health diagnoses.
- 12.16.09
Start-Up NY Extradordinary Speaker Series & Lunch: "Ben & Co." with guest speaker, Sue Lehr.
12 pm - 1:30 pm
RSVP by: Dec. 14, 2009
Hosted by: Partnership of Onondaga County , BBI, Whitman School of Management
Syracuse, New York
- 12.1.09 Fayetteville-Manlius High School’s We "R" Above campaign announced as winner of Disability Rights Communications Campaign Contest
Sponsored by: BBI, The Newhouse School: Advertising Department, and Clear Channel Syracuse
• Announcement: Winners - Disability Campaign Contest | Winning Entry: We "R" Above
• News: F-M teens win disability campaign |
Disability awareness focus of communications campaigns
• Related: Disability Rights: 2009 Communications Campaign Contest
- 12.1.09 BBI Partner Ambassador Gallegos honored
•News Release : Ecuador Envoy Honored for Human Rights Activism [PDF file]
- 11.16.09 - 11.25.09 Rune Halvorsen, Senior Researcher at NOVA Norwegian Social Research, and NTNU Social Research presented a lecture at BBI in collaboration with the BBI senior research team.
Syracuse, New York
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Gifford Foundation Awards Grant to Savings Program for Entrepreneurs
The Gifford Foundation recently awarded $35,000 to Cooperative Federal (Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union), Syracuse’s community development credit union for a unique program to help entrepreneurs with disabilities.
Press Release : Gifford Foundation Awards Grant to Savings Program for Entrepreneurs | Inside SU: Gifford Foundation Awards Grant to Savings Program for Entrepreneurs
- Peter Blanck, BBI's Chairman, quoted in a Telegraph Herald on the costs and benefits of accommodations required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. (February 7, 2010)
Article: Telegraph Herald: What's the Real Cost of accommodation?
BBI hiring for 5 positions
- BBI 2010 Summer Law & Policy Internship opportunity in Washington, DC [PDF file]
- Accessibility of Electronic Books
• DOJ Press Release | ASU Press Release
- Eve Hill, BBI's SVP, interviewed by NPR Morning Edition on Kindle accessibility, and universities – including SU – choosing not to buy them; also involved in SU's decision to refrain from buying more until accessibility addressed.
• Articles: SU News: SU decision to not buy Kindle featured in NPR interview with Eve Hill, BBI's SVP | Inside SU: SU decision to not buy Kindle featured in NPR interview with Eve Hill, BBI's SVP
| Wired Campus: Kindle - 2 Universities Won't Buy | Daily Orange: University responds to Kindle complaints
- Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) with Disabilities Expands [PDF file]
• SU News: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities Expands
- BBI Selected to Co-Lead New $12 Million New York State Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) [PDF file]
• SU News: SU’s Burton Blatt Institute selected to co-lead implementation of new $12 million New York State Medicaid infrastructure grant
- BBI awarded $2,500,000 funding from NIDRR – U.S. Dept. of Education for 5-year Research & Knowledge Dissemination Project on Rehabilitation Technology
• News: Central NY Business Journal [Ed. 11/6/2009]: BBI awarded 5-year Rehabilitation Technology Project from NIDRR
- Purchasing of Accessible Electronic Resources Resolution Adopted
• Purchasing of Accessible Electronic Resources Resolution [Word file]
Library Website Accessibility Resolution [Word file]
- Law School Admissions Access Project Survey (LSAC Survey)
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Publications / Index
- ADA Headliner - February 2010
by DBTAC: Southeast ADA Center
- Corporate Culture and Employment of People With Disabilities: Role of Social Workers and Service Provider Organizations
by D. Samant, M. Soffer, B. Hernandez, M. Adya, O. Akinpelu, P. Blanck, et. al
- Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation (Vol. 8, No. 3 & 4, July 2009)
- Race, Ethnicity, and the Treatment of Disability in Post-Civil War America [available June 2010]
by L. Logue & P. Blanck
- Cambridge University Press
- BBI Annual Report 2008 [PDF file]
- Disability Civil Rights Law & Policy Casebook [2nd ed.]
by P. Blanck, E. Hill, et. al
- Amicus Brief for Disability Asylum Case: Korneenkov v. U.S.
by P. Blanck, et. al.
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