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Team Viscardi Bike Club Informational Dinner The 30th Annual “Reach for a Star” Spring Luncheon The 46th Annual Celebrity Sports Night The Ride to Montauk

Special Announcements

Abilities! President & CEO, John Kemp, Welcomes You to Abilities! Online.

Reflections from a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew

Edited by Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D., and John D. Kemp

Foreword by Marlee Matlin

Awards and Projects

Exclusive Interview with Abilities! President and CEO John D. Kemp on TV10/55

Abilities! Employee(Alex Alazraki) Celebrates his 93rd Birthday after Lifetime of Challenges

Coping with a Student's Death:
Cross Cultural Concerns for School Professionals

An online training program hosted by Abilities!

Presenter: Dr. Alberto Bursztyn-College of School Psychology and Graduate Special Education at Brooklyn College

This presentation prepares social workers, school psychologists, counselors, nurses and other professional staff working in diverse schools to provide culturally informed support following the death of student, explains how support professionals can help diverse schools cope with death, integrate cultural knowledge in school bereavement practices, extend support to diverse families and communities and consider development of school plans for bereavement. 75 minutes . $49 Certificate of Completion for one hour of continuing education from Abilities! will be issued for participants.

Click Here to listen to a preview podcast of Coping with a Student's Death: Cross Cultural Concerns for School Professionals.

Abilities! Facts

Emerging Leaders

88% of 2007 Emerging Leaders intern respondents indicated that the internship was, overall, very beneficial for them.
100% of 2007 Emerging Leaders corporate sponsor respondents indicated that they would consider hiring their Emerging Leader intern if they had a future vacancy.
86% of 2007 Emerging Leaders corporate sponsor respondents indicated that their Emerging Leader experience will significantly/very significantly impact practices related to hiring or retaining employees with disabilities.
100% of 2006 Emerging Leaders who responded to the long term outcome survey indicated that the internship experience helped them to clarify their career objectives.

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