Support DeafBlind Self-Advocacy Trainings Today!

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The DeafBlind Self-Advocacy Program is a project of the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers.

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About this fundraiser

Please donate now to support the DeafBlind Self-Advocacy Trainings. We need your financial support to continue these trainings.

• Approximately 700,000 people in the United States live with some combined degree of reduced hearing and vision.
• DeafBlind individuals are just the same as hearing and sighted individuals, with similar dreams to achieve successful lives and education. But many DeafBlind people encounter frustrations on a daily basis.
• There are barriers blocking them at every turn.
• By providing this training to DeafBlind individuals, they’ll learn to assert their rights as people. They no longer have to accept their current situations. Situations where many do not have access to basic services such as information governing their own health care.

• These DeafBlind Self-Advocacy trainings DO change lives.

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DeafBlind people want the same things as hearing and sighted people but being DeafBlind can present challenges to access opportunities. Self-doubt or a lack of awareness and skills on how to advocate for ourselves are very real barriers DeafBlind people face.

Many DeafBlind individuals haven’t yet learned how to be assertive and exercise self-advocacy skills and decision making because they weren’t given the opportunity. This leaves them with feelings of isolation and frustration when they cannot access much-needed services. Our solution is a peer-based training where DeafBlind people with more skills share their knowledge in a safe environment that is of, by and for DeafBlind individuals. We will be utilizing a self-advocacy curriculum developed by and for DeafBlind people.  In the next few months, our goal is to train 100 DeafBlind individuals to become self-advocates. This is why we need your help now. Without your financial support, we just cannot fund these trainings.

How will my donation be used for DeafBlind Self-Advocacy?

These trainings will take place in different cities across the United States. Each training lasts 16 hours, with 8 individuals participating. Because of the need for 2 interpreters per DeafBlind participant, the training is very costly. This is why we now come to you. Each training costs approximately $8,000. We aspire to hold 6 trainings nationwide this year.

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Can we count on your contribution today?

We know this training works. We saw the impact when we gathered a small group of DeafBlind individuals to pilot the training. Those who took part are energized and using their power to change the world.

Now we come to YOU. Please give and help to change the world for DeafBlind people.

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Group picture of the DeafBlind Self-Advocacy trainers who participated in the Training of Trainers, along with their interpreters. This group of trainers is qualified to provide trainings all across America.  Your contribution today makes it possible for these trainings to happen!

For more information about the DeafBlind Self-Advocacy Training, contact deafselfadvocacy@gmail.com