BrainStorm is CTD’s 31st Annual Convention to be held in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center.
April 5 & 6, 2009
Our program includes two tracks, one for advocacy and one for health care professionals.
Highlights of the program are a Legislative Briefing, a training session to explain effective methods to reach legislators and inform you on current issues in front of the 2009 Legislative session. CTD is also holding a CEU program for health care professionals.
To register and book a room please visit the CTD web site, www.cotwd.org. Here you are able to register online or download the registration forms to mail to CTD. Check the CTD web site often for up-to-date convention info. Registration stipends are available, both local and statewide! Call CTD at 512.478.3366
Advocate at the Capitol!
- Reduce the Medicaid Community Services Waiting Lists!
- Livable Wages for Community Care Attendants!
- Reform of the State School System and Rebalance Long Term Services and Supports from Institutions to the Community!
- Are you from San Angelo, Galveston, Bryan/College Station, Collin County or the Texoma region? From those five priority areas, three new centers for independent living would be established.
- Are you offended that Texas claims sovereign immunity from the ADA and its protections against discrimination based on disability? Then support the ADA bill filed by Rep. Strama and Sen. Hinojosa!
- Plus many more key issues!
Giving us the tools we need.
In what has been called one of the steepest economic downturns, Rep. Lucio III has filed legislation that will give Texans with disabilities a new tool to succeed in business. H.B. 970 would allow people with disabilities to become a certified Historically Underutilized Business (HUB).
A HUB certification is a powerful tool that would allow business owners with disabilities to do business with state agencies and universities that are constantly looking to work with businesses certified as HUBs. The goal of this good-faith effort is to actively involve HUBs in the Texas procurement process and ensure they receive a fair share of state business.
Let’s stand behind Rep. Lucio and H.B. 970, giving us the tools we need to succeed.
Community services waivers.
The 81st legislature is kicking off with 88,000 unduplicated Texans on waivers that are still NOT receiving services. As a community it is imperative that we come together and advocate as one voice to end the waiting lists.