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Events
DISABLED OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL PRESENTS Steven Bruce, Esq. Founder and Director People With Disabilities Foundation (PWDF) San Francisco Understanding Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities Mr. Bruce will show, discuss, and answer questions regarding PWDF's exciting newly-released educational video. The film features real individuals with psychiatric disabilities (not actors), employed and often accommodated by real employers; informative testimony by psychological and other experts; a mock mediation to illustrate how mediation can facilitate reasonable accommodation and understanding; an excellent facilitation workbook, which will be distributed.. All federal employees (and friends of DOC) are invited. Managers, supervisors, human resource officials, and those who manage EEO and people with disabilities programs will find the information especially useful. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12 to 3:30 PM Location: San Francisco Federal Building Casual Conference Room 5th Floor 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco (Located 3 blocks from the Civic Center BART Station) Agenda 12:00-12:45PM Delicious luncheon/networking 12:45-1:15 Business Meeting 1:15- 3:30 DOC Presentation RSVP by COB June 10, 2008 to Amanda Wade (Email amandawade@eeoc.gov; phone (415-625-5624) If you require sign language interpreters, please notify Amanda Wade by June 10, 2008. _________________________________
PWDF Presents: The Premiere of our New 30 Minute Training Video Understanding Employees Psychiatric disability is a hidden issue that affects every workplace today. Real people and their employers are in PWDF's new public awareness training. The video focuses on the nature of mental disabilities including Bipolar, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In this public awareness training video PWDF features real people and their employers in real situations that reflect how employers can successfully employ people with psychological disorders. This video is designed for employers, employees, and agencies or individuals who who need to know and understand the nature of these disorders. Location: City College of San Francisco - Mission Campus - Room 109 PWDF is State Bar of California MCLE Provider.
PWDF’s new video shown at the 88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association Our new video, Understanding Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities is part of the film festival at Western Psychological Association’s 2008 Convention held in Irvine, California on April 10-13, 2008.
Bay Area Disability Services Librarians (BADSL) Meeting Topic: PWDF Services, Materials, and News Speaker: Annie Hsia, Advocacy Program Manager Bay Area Disability Services Librarians, a local networking group of metropolitan libraries in the community that are dedicated to providing equal access to the public library system for people with disabilities, invited PWDF to their scheduled meeting so that we may describe PWDF services in more detail. Participants are especially interested in ways their patrons may be referred to PWDF for individual or referral services.
Seventeen Delegates from Shaanxi Province, China Visit PWDF Date: April 19, 2007, 12:30 p.m. PWDF welcomed 17 delegates from Shaanxi Province, China. Headed by Ms. Chaoying Zhang, Chair and Director of the General Office of the Shaanxi League of Disabled People. The group convened to learn about PWDF’s programs and supporting services. A presentation by Steven Bruce was followed by numerous questions ranging from the benefits to employers that hire employees with disabilities, to the U.S.’s support system for people with disabilities, to PWDF’s success rate in representing our clients.
2006 Cultural Competence and Mental Health Summit Date: November 8-9, 2006 The Summit is sponsored by the California Institute for Mental Health, Sacramento. The 2006 Summit has specific focus and relevance for the implementation for the Mental Health Services Act. The program includes specific strategies for successful change, and transforming organizational systems to work collaboratively with clients, consumers and diverse communities. |
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Five short video clips and an audio clip from PWDF's past six issue seminars since January 16, 2001.
Seminar 1: Disabled Students in Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Coping skills and sensitivity Training. Past Events |