Workshops - Community Education

The Access Center presents a number of workshops meant to enhance an individual's understanding on a variety of topics during the year such as:

The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Olmstead Decision
Your rights under Medicaid
Your rights under the Fair Housing Act
Assistive Technology
Understanding Stress
Medicaid "Buy-In"
Oppression, Stereotypes, and Stress
Assertiveness
Disability and Relationships
LGBT and Disability
Diversity

In addition, ACIL periodically hosts "Lunch and a Movie" where a film depicting different facets of life with a disability is viewed and is followed by a discussion of the movie's points and highlights. Past "screenings" include:

Music Within - The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam severely hearing -impaired and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities.
When You Remember Me - a fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a nursing home by his destitus mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse.
Rory O'Shea Was Here - a film that revolves around two disabled young men who pursue physical and emotional independence in direct defiance of "protective" insitutional living and their society's prevailing standards and attitudes, especially pity.

The Access Center charges a fee for workshops and some events. We ask that reservations are made in advance with your payment. Reservations made in advance cost $3.00 per Consumer, $5.00 per Professional / Agency Representative. Checks should be made out to: Access Center and mailed to or dropped off to: Access Center 901 S. Ludlow Street Dayton Ohio 45402 Attn: Events Coordinator. After the RSVP deadline the fee is $5.00 per Consumer and $7.00 per Professional / Agency Representative. (Please understand that if you are unable to attend a workshop after you have made an advanced payment the payment is non-refundable, unless the workshop is cancelled!.) If we do not have at least 10 people registered by the Monday before the workshop, the workshop will be cancelled. Please give us a telephone number when you register.

CEUs:
Clock Hours of Social Work Continuing Education has been approved for this program by the Access Center for Independent Living, Inc. who is an approved provider of continuing education for the Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board of Ohio. Provider #RSX031103.

The Ohio Board of Nursing recognizes Social Work clock hours for nursing license renewal continuing education hours. Other professions should check with their own board to determine if these credit hours may be used. In order to prepare the appropriate number of handouts and certificates, if you are attending this presentation to acquire CEUs, registration is REQUIRED! Anyone who is not registered may only attend the presentation if seating is available. ACIL consumers will receive first priority seating for this event. The fee, if you are attending this presentation to acquire CEUs the fee is $30.00. Please call Maria Matzik at: (937) 341-5202 ext 20#

The Access Center is a fragrance-free environment. We ask that you refrain from wearing cologne and scented products out of consideration for people with chemical sensitivities and breathing problems. We do our best to provide an environment that everyone can feel comfortable in.