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The cover of Impact: Employment and IDD, shows Katrina Simons, who uses a wheelchair, interviewing Dupree Edwards, an editor of this issue. They are sitting in a studio, speaking into microphones with film cameras focused on them. Both people are smiling.

New! Impact: Employment and IDD

The new Impact explores the movement to end subminimum wages paid to people with disabilities in group settings and offers strategies for boosting employment rates in the competitive job market.

“This work is important to me, and not only because I need to earn money,” said Dupree Edwards (right), a rapper and ICI co-trainer who served as an issue editor.

Read more about Impact.

Liz Weintraub stands out in nature. She is wearing glasses and a black t-shirt.

Think College Policy Advocacy Training

Liz Weintraub (pictured) and Denise Rozell will co-present at the Think College Advocates training on November 19. Weintraub has long been a leader in self-advocacy. She hosts “Tuesdays With Liz: Disability Policy For All,” a popular YouTube show where she explains policy in accessible language.

Learn the policy advocacy skills training available to students and staff of inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual disability. Hosted by ICI's Minnesota Inclusive Higher Education Technical Assistance Center.

Register for this free online training.

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2024 Minnesota Gathering for Person-Centered Practices

The Minnesota Gathering is your event to meet and learn how person-centered thinkers are planning, providing, and organizing services rooted in listening to what people want and helping them live in their communities based on their choices. It will be held in person on Nov. 12 and online on Nov. 14.

Register for the Gathering.