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Speaker & Topic

Presentations Plenary Videos
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IIMHL / IIDL Network Meeting Program of Events

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Welcome to the Network Meeting - Co MCs

Disability: Inspirational Keynote – Voice of Lived Experience from the IIDL Emerging Leaders Network  – Presenter: Emily Ladau

Mental Health: Inspirational Keynote - Voice of Lived Experience and Trauma Informed Care – Presenter: William Kellibrew

Poem by Tunchai Redvers

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Emily Ladau

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Plenary #1: Disruptive Innovation and Accountability: What can we learn from a Global Perspective? 

Presenter: Dévora Kestel, Director of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization

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Plenary #2 USA Leadership: How our host
country is using collective leadership and
action to increase competitive integrated
employment rates for individuals with
disabilities

- Chair: Jennifer Johnson, United States
Administration for Community Living,
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services

- Eve Hill, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy

- Karen Lee, Executive Director, Supporting
Employment Equality and Community

- Serena Lowe, Senior Policy Advisor,
Center for Policy & Evaluation,
Administration for Community Living,
U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services

 

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Plenary #3 – Leadership: Investment
Strategies and Action to Support
Tomorrow’s Leaders - The Why, How and Strategies for Action

- Chair: Chair: Eddie Bartnik, National Disability
Insurance Agency (Australia)

Co-facilitators:

- Dr. Michael Kendrick, International
Consultant, USA

- Rachel Peterson, Yes Disability Resource
Centre, New Zealand

- Aisling Blackmore -National Disability
Insurance Agency, Australia and panel of
Emerging Leaders

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Member Countries Panel:
Highlighting national and IIDL initiatives

Nordic Cooperation on Disability

- Chair: Garth Bennie, New Zealand
Disability Support Network
Nordic Cooperation on Disability

- Maria Montefusco, senior adviser and
Secretary of the Council of Nordic
cooperation on Disability
National Initiatives in Denmark

- Sif Holst, vice chairperson of Disabled
Peoples Organisations Denmark
National Initiatives in Greenland

- Anders Meilvang, chairperson of
Nunatsinni Inuit Innarluutillit Kattuffiat
(NIIK), national umbrella organisation for
people with disabilities in Greenland

- Christina Johnsen, Tilioq, national
spokesperson for people with disabilities
in Greenland

- Anna Ida Hallgaard Jonssen, project
manager, Tilioq


Developments in Scotland

- Chair: Dr Michael Kendrick, USA

- Donna Bell, Director for Mental Health,
Learning Disability, Neurodiversity and
Dementia at the Scottish Government

- Charlie McMillan, Chief Executive of the
Scottish Commission for Learning
Disability

 

 

 

 

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International Leadership Panel

How member countries are leading the way
forward on Access, Accountability and
Action

- Chair: Krista Wilcox, Office of Disability
Issues, Canada

New Zealand: Enabling Good Lives

- Brian Coffey – Director Office of Disability
Issues

- Lauren Jones: Ministry of Health
Australia: National Disability Insurance
Scheme (NDIS)

- Maryanne Diamond, National Disability
Insurance Agency

England

- David Nuttall, Department of Health and
Social Care

- Clenton Farquharson, Think Local Act
Personal (TLAP)

- Caroline Speirs, Think Local Act Personal
(TLAP)


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Match Reports:
Selected Matches to be highlighted and
experiences shared

- Chair: Lorna Sullivan, Mana Whaikaha,
New Zealand

Family leadership
- Bruce Uditsky, Alberta Association for
Community Living

Citizen Advocacy
- Ruby Moore – Georgia Advocacy Office

  

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Innovations Market Place
Featuring Match Hosts and Member
Countries
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See IIDL Match list for preliminary topics

Market Place Participants:


New Zealand
• Australia
• Citizen Advocacy
• Now and Next
• England
• Nordic Council
• Family Advocacy
• Self Direction
• Windsor Essex Brokerage


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Moving Forward

- Poem – Tunchai Redvers
- Soka Tribe: Caribbean Vibe

Closing remarks:

- Bob Glover, Chair of the IIMHL/IIDL Board

- Fran Silvestri, CEO of IIMHL/IIDL

- Welcome to NZ

- Closing in Protocol with Indigenous Color Guard and Drum Group