INFORMATION SESSIONS

MICROBOARDS AND COOPERATIVES


Location: Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities
830 S. Spring Street
Springfield, IL 62704
(217) 782-9696


Date : Friday February 22, 2008

Time: 10:00 a.m to 12:00 noon


If you have questions please email Ruthie-Marie Beckwith,
Ph.D. at empfanatic@... or call at (615) 898-0300. More
information about the Managing the Art of Living project is available
at our website: www.managingtheartofliving.org

What You Will Learn In an Information Session

COOPERATIVES:

• What is a Human Serves Cooperative?
• What it means to be a member of a H.S. Cooperative.
• What other H.S. Cooperatives are doing.
• The proven steps to set up a H.S. Cooperative.
• How governing your own company gives you choice and power
over services and your life.


MICROBOARDS:

• What a microboard is and is not.
• An overview of the process used to help individuals and their
families create microboards
• Examples of microboard success stories
• Pitfalls that microboards should avoid in order to prosper
• How to get involved in the Managing the Art of Living project




A project supported and funded by
the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities