Spotlight
Get Fit, Get Moving!
Learn about fun options to start or increase your healthy lifestyle, from teachers and leaders in adaptive fitness and recreation at the First Annual Fitness Fair at the Ed Roberts Campus on June 22nd, 2013.
Disability Benefits, Employment Inclusion and Employment Outcomes
A philosophical statement from the chair of WID’s Center on Economic Growth (CEG) Advisory Panel, Neil Jacobson, WID Board of Directors and Founder of Abilicorp, Inc.
After 40 Years – Where Are We Today?
Paul Hippolitus' personal reflections and observations about the effectiveness of education’s employment preparation policies and practices and what remains to be accomplished.
The Missing Piece? Undoing Capability Deprivations
Victor Pineda speaks on the ‘Agency-Habilitation’ framework and suggests an approach that can drive policy research towards new fundamental solutions, redefine localized supports as being agency enhancing and provide a framework for decoupling Medi-Cal from Social Security. Victor argues that using agency-habilitation framework can change the scope and function of vocational training programs to shift their focus towards habilitation.
Toward Economic Growth: An abstract of convening outcomes
Highlights from the Center on Economic Growth’s Inaugural Meeting on October 28, 2011
WID News and Announcements
Save the Date! 15th Annual Ever Widening Circle on Thursday, October 24, 2013
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the World Institute on Disability, I invite you to support our annual Disability Policy Summit and Ever Widening Circle, our premier gala celebrating WID’s work and disability culture, on Thursday, October 24, 2013 at the universally designed and award-winning Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California.
Call for Recipes
The World Institute on Disability and partners at the Ed Roberts Campus are inviting submissions of recipes, tips and ideas for a “Disability Cookbook.” We’re hoping this will be a fun way for all to participate in improving our nutrition and making cooking and food preparation more accessible, available and fun, so we’ll actually do it!
Tom Foley, WID’s Deputy Director, reappointed to the National Diversity Advisory Council of the American Red Cross
Berkeley, CA, April 23, 2013: Tom Foley, Deputy Director of the World Institute on Disability, has been reappointed by the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross to the National Diversity Advisory Council for a term of two years that expires in March 2015. The council advises the Red Cross Board of Governor's Human Resources Committee on ways to achieve greater diversity in services, recipients and both the paid and volunteer workforce.
Vets101: New Job Tools for Veterans
November 8, 2012, Berkeley, California-- World Institute on Disability (WID) is launching Vets101.org, offering veterans free career planning tools and information services. Vets101 supports vets to take command of life after military service. Vets101 tools help vets navigate the maze of information when making financial and career decisions.
DREDF honored at Ever Widening Circle 2012
September 7, 2012, Berkeley, California-- Colleagues, friends and supporters joined WID at Ever Widening Circle, our annual gala celebrating WID’s work and disability culture, at the Ed Roberts Campus to present Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) with our 2012 National Disability Leadership Award for their outstanding leadership advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities.
Program Highlights
Access to Assets
Access to Assets (ATA) provides training and technical assistance to asset building and disability organizations seeking to improve the inclusion of people with disabilities in asset building programs; information and referral services to individuals with disabilities; and conducts federal and state policy analysis on related issues. ATA publishes EQUITY, the only asset building newsletter specifically for people with disabilities. ATA also provides a list of upcoming conferences on a wide range of disability related topics.
Learn more about EQUITY
Learn more about ATA Conferences
Employment and Disability Benefits Initiative
The Employment and Disability Benefits Initiative (EDBI) provides information on health coverage, work, and benefits to youth and adults with disabilities. Through Disability Benefits Information Services, EDBI provides community outreach, training and web-based services, including one-on-one technical assistance at its website, www.DB101.org, in six states (Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and New Jersey). The site offers easy to understand, practical information on public and private benefits, employment services, and other programs, as well as interactive benefits calculators. EDBI recently launched the Veterans Benefits Online Tools Project to support disabled veterans' transition back to employment and civilian life and also develops community based public policy recommendations.
Learn more about WID Launches The Veterans' Benefits Online Tools Project
Learn more about DB101.org
Learn more about Employment and Disability Benefits Initiative
Learn more about Disability Benefits 101 Information Services
Health Access and Long Term Services
The Health Access and Long-term Services program (HALTS) addresses health care disparities for people with disabilities by working to improve access to quality care and reducing incidence of abuse of people with disabilities, a significant barrier to independent living and full integration into the community. HALTS recently produced MAP to Health Access, a comprehensive training curriculum using high-motivation learning tools and downloadable, web-based materials for women with disabilities to learn about their right to accessible, quality health care as required by federal law; trains doctors and medical practitioners to provide culturally competent health care and accessible services and equipment using Access to Medical Care: Adults with Physical Disabilities, a video and training curriculum for health care providers addresses key issues that influence the quality of care in outpatient clinical settings; and recently produced the Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE), a comprehensive, multi-media training curriculum in English and Spanish to educate people with disabilities, services providers, and family members about abuse awareness and prevention strategies, and published and Sticks and Stones, a collection of fifty stories about facing abuse and violence, told by a diverse group of people with disabilities, as well as family members, services providers, and other allies, covering a wide range of mistreatment and recovery experiences.
Learn more about Access to Medical Care: Two-DVD Curriculum on Treating People with Disabilities
Learn more about Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)
Learn more about Sticks and Stones
Learn more about Health Access and Long Term Services
International Program
WID's International Program provides training and technical assistance to disabled persons organizations (DPOs) in developing countries to conduct effective disability advocacy, community barrier removal and public education campaigns; develops programs and national policies; and creates networks and national coalitions to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities into all aspects of society. WID is currently funded by USAID to set up a sustainable wheelchair production and repair facility; a postural support seating and cushion service; a mobility, self-care, and advocacy skills training system for men and women who use wheelchairs; and conduct advocacy, public education, and community accessibility barrier removal activities in the Republic of Georgia. WID is also part of the U.S. Department of State’s 3-year Justice and Dignity in the Middle East- North Africa (MENA) Region, a consortium of innovative, rights-based NGOs to conduct rapid response projects with marginalized populations in the MENA region. The first country targeted for technical assistance was Morocco, and WID has been providing training and technical assistance to build the capacity of the Regional Union for Persons with Disabilities, located in Marrakech and also serving the Atlas Region.
Learn more about International Program
Proyecto Visión
Proyecto Visión provides information services to youth and young adults with disabilities from traditionally underserved populations, ages 16 – 35, so they may successfully transition from school to higher education and attain sustainable independent living and employment outcomes. Using popular Internet sites including Facebook and YouTube to reach our target population, the program hosts a website, www.proyectovision.net, featuring news, resources and opportunities for scholarships/internships/jobs; an electronic newsletter that highlights success stories about youth and young adults with disabilities who found employment; and produces Success Story video clips that are posted on YouTube. As part of the program's leadership development initiative, Proyecto Visión also hires young writers with disabilities to contribute articles and stories as part of its Emerging Writers Program and provides paid internships to University of California, Berkeley students with disabilities as part of the New Leaders Intern Program.
Learn more about Proyecto Visión/New Leaders Internship Program
Learn more about Proyecto Visión (proyectovision.net)
Learn more about Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities: Scholarships, Internships and Grants



