Community Events

Mark Your Calendar: FC Winter Training and FC Day

Family Connection Winter Training Event
Feb. 20, 2006
Wyndham Atlanta-Downtown, 160 Spring St. N.W., Atlanta

Family Connection Day Breakfast
Feb. 21, 2006
Georgia Freight Depot (near Underground Atlanta)

The Family Connection Winter Training Event features workshops led by collaboratives and partners sharing their best practices and successes. This year's luncheon will premier the official launch of the Collaborative Webs, a new, online communications tool to help collaboratives market themselves across the World Wide Web.

The Family Connection Day Breakfast celebrates successes in improving the lives of children, families, and communities through local Family Connection collaborative efforts across the state. Nearly 300 people attended the breakfast last year, including collaboratives, partners, community leaders, and legislators from across Georgia.

Registration will open in December.

Save the Date: CIMS Training Coming to Your Region

Attention Family Connection county collaboratives! Mark your calendar now to attend a hands-on training on the new Collaborative Information Management System (CIMS) in your region. CIMS, the online reporting database designed to streamline and simplify collaborative reporting, will make its training debut in mid-February. Look for registration information for trainings and more details soon. For a fact sheet on CIMS, visit www.gafcp.org/CIMS.

Click for directions to training locations.

Scholarships Available to Attend Nurturing Parenting Facilitator and Home Visitation Skills Trainings

Dec. 5 - 7
Nurturing Parenting Facilitator Training, Athens

Jan. 11 - 12, 2006
Basic Home Visitation Skills Training, Cuthbert

Jan. 18 - 20, 2006
Nurturing Parenting Facilitator Training, Marietta

The trainings are free through registration scholarships for people living or working in the following counties:

Barrow, Bartow, Banks, Burke, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Columbia, Coweta, Dade, Dawson, Dekalb, Douglas, Elbert, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Glascock, Gordon, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Hart, Heard, Henry, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lamar, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, McDuffie, Meriwether, Morgan, Murray, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Rabun, Richmond, Rockdale, Screven, Spalding, Stephens, Taliaferro, Towns, Troup, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Warren, Washington, White, Whitfield, Wilkes.

Scholarships will be assigned on a first registered-first served basis. Space is limited. To host a training in your area, e-mail lw.fncofga@comcast.net or call 770-972-3664.

Upcoming Disability Events

Jan. 27 - 29, 2006
Division E Midwinter Conference: "The Illusion of Therapy: Discover the
Magic Within"
Keynote Presenter: Froma Walsh
Emerald Pointe, Lake Lanier Islands

Feb. 23, 2006
Disability Day at the Capitol
Atlanta
www.gcdd.org

March 1 - 4, 2006
Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities: Better All Together Conference University of Georgia, Continuing Education Center
Athens
www.gcdd.org

March 3 - 5, 2006
The 2006 Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown
Atlanta
www.afb.org/jltli.asp

April 17 - 18, 2006
2006 Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability
Ohio
E-mail: ADA-OSU@osu.edu

May 2 - 5, 2006
American Association on Mental Retardation: International Alliance for Social Inclusion Summit
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
www.aamr.org

May 25 - 27, 2006
2006 Georgia Psychological Association Annual Meeting
Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa
Sandestin, Fla.
www.gapsychology.org

May 25 - 28, 2006
National Self-Advocacy Conference 2006
Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
Atlanta Hilton
www.sabe2006.com