The document discusses strategies for moving beyond tokenism and promoting full participation and inclusion of self-advocates on boards. It provides 10 tools for boards including providing hospitality, orientation and training, defining roles, reviewing agendas in advance, ensuring accessible materials and communication, and establishing supportive policies. The overall goal is to help self-advocates feel respected, listened to, and able to contribute and influence decisions.
4. Overcoming Tokenism Being a Token Touchdown Impact Change -----------------------------------------------------------------------100 Influence decisions ------------------------------------------------------------------------90 Contributing ------------------------------------------------------------------------80 Respected ------------------------------------------------------------------------70 Listened to ------------------------------------------------------------------------60 Accepted --------------------------------------------------------------------------50 Participate --------------------------------------------------------------------------40 Mentor --------------------------------------------------------------------------30 Sitting in the back --------------------------------------------------------------------------20 Get to the meeting --------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Invited to meeting Goal Posts Excluded
5. Offense Defense Goal Post Goal Post Moving Beyond Tokenism Mentors Fancy words Transportation Jargon Large Print Put down Simple language No transportation Welcome
6. Offense Defense Goal Post Goal Post Professional/Families Barriers (Promoters) (Barriers) Everybody has the same fear Afraid won’t do it right, I’ll be embarrassed Involve the self-advocate in decisions Don’t know how to ask the self-advocate’s opinion Having a mentor Acting like a professional No jargon, Use plain, simple language Jargon, big words, Complicated language Extra time Be welcoming Being in a hurry
To do Want logo with disabled person Shrink betty’s phone to take less disk space Review evals Add a score card based on pre assessment scale How close is your organization to the goal post? Add in Womans study, from EU Football jersey’s red with white lettering Recruitment Put your team on the field Uniform type, appearance Where do you position yourself on the field (have your mentor sit next to you to ask questions and explain stuff Sit as close to the more powerful person in the room as you possibly can, i.e. Bonita Make football field horizontal rather then vertical Each one teach one How to become more active, more involved, less passive? Change why should sa be on boards to how does the board benefit?
Add Touchdown to top Make this landscape rather then portrait
Defense – holding you back Offense – what you want to
Types of mentors
Center for Plain Language http://centerforplainlanguage.org/ Use simple language (cite plain language movement, testing scales, work, etc. Large print Color Audiotapes Braille
“ This project is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council.”
