Past Seminars
Event: PWDF Seminar: Reasonable Accommodations in Housing for People with Psychiatric and/or Developmental Disabilities
This seminar addressed fair housing laws, reasonable accommodations and eviction defense for people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities in various housing settings.
Event: PWDF Seminar: Integration of Adults with Autism into the Whole of Society
This seminar addressed independent living challenges for adults with autism.
Event: PWDF Seminar: Disabled Students in Elementary and Secondary Schools – Coping Skills & Sensitivity Training
This seminar offered sensitivity training to administrators, teachers, non-disabled students, and parents/guardians involved with elementary and secondary education school districts and to develop and maintain coping skills to deal with psychological stressors ordinarily associated with disabled students.
Event: PWDF Seminar: Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace
This seminar featured training to small and large businesses, vocational rehabilitation providers, attorneys, people with psychiatric disabilities and other interested parties.
Event: PWDF Seminar: Health Care Issues for People with Psychiatric or Developmental Disabilities
This seminar covered health care issues for people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities in hospital assessments and referrals including emergency room triage
Event: PWDF Seminar: Multiculturalism and Psychiatric Disabilities
This seminar covered barriers to effective treatment and the impact of cultural norms in recognizing/diagnosing psychiatric disabilities. It was co-sponsored by Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Event: PWDF Seminar: Understanding Employment Issues for People with Psychiatric and/or Developmental Disabilities
This seminar covered Mental Disorders in the workplace, reasonable accommodations, employment as part of recovery, updates on ADA and Mental Health Parity Act.
Event: PWDF Seminar: PWDF Seminar: Psychiatric Service Animals
This seminar covered therapeutic benefits and legal protections for people with psychiatric service animals in employment settings, public accommodations and housing.
Event: PWDF Seminar: Overcoming Barriers to Physical Health Care
This seminar addressed methods to overcome barriers to health care access & continues from our 2005 seminar related to hospital assessments and referrals.