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Q: What Self-Advocacy organization exists in
Minnesota?
A: We have a network of 58 groups, Called Self-Advocates Minnesota
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How SAM
Works: Six
Regions
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How SAM is
financed
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How It Works:
Statewide Leadership
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Each Region Takes Turn
Hosting
• Leadership Circle meets • two times each year • Location rotates to each
Region
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SAM: Key Features
SAM is about cooperation, not competition. Anyone who wants to belong to SAM is welcome. Any ally who wants to support SAM is welcome. SAM is not a new nonprofit organization. It uses existing leadership and organizations to support the network. The model is grassroots and not top-down.
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What are the RESOURCES for Self-Advocates in Minnesota
Philanthropic Minnesota Foundations and Corporate Giving Programs
Public Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Minnesota Department of Human Services
Earned Rose Sales / Car Wash / Hot Dog Booth Sales of mission related products (bank loans to finance development) Fee for Service
Chip-In 40 Disability orgs chip in to sponsor big conference
Donor Base Individual gifts
Workplace Giving Campaigns Community Shares
In Kind Everything from meeting space to graphics to drivers to costume design!
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Q: What has NOT worked in your state for S.A. organizations?
A: Lecture, a Panel, or other TOP-DOWN information
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What has worked in
Minnesota for Self-Advocacy?
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Music
Art
Frozen Sculptures Role-Play
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Theater
Community Meetings
Poetry
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Community Service
Self-Advocacy Bingo
Human Rights Fair Games
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Breakfast Club
Energizers Collecting Stories
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Using the Media
Planning Petitions
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What are the CHALLENGES for Self-Advocates in Minnesota? Funding Our SAM network if vulnerable if public funds are cut. Many groups do not have diversified funding
Limited Reach In Minnesota, there are many people we are not reaching with the message of self-advocacy, including people with higher support needs
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Q: What are you
most proud of
in regards to self-advocacy in your state?
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Apology Resolution
Offense Taken
Human Rights Education
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Conferences
Train the Trainer
Work at Legislature
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What are the DREAMS for Self-Advocates in Minnesota?
Common understanding of disability as a
human rights issue
Funding is not a money problem— It’s a values problem. Our dream is that self-advocacy is valued enough to receive
stable, consistent funds to do the work.
A world where
everyone belongs!
Build the SAM network to include more
issue organizing,
more outreach to
underserved folks
more power at the capital.
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Minnesota Summit Team Colleen Wieck MN DD Council
Sandra Moore Protection and Advocacy
Beth Fondell UCEDD
Mary Kay Kennedy Advocating Change Together
(ACT)
Carol Robinson ACT, SAM, SABE
Galen Smith Self-Advocates Minnesota (SAM),
•ARC United-Central, ADAPT
Carrie Varner SAM, People First Lyon County
Katie McDermott ACT, SAM, Partners in Policy Making,
Merrick PF
Wilbur Neuswander-Frink Self Advocates Minnesota (SAM),
ARC Southwest
Alex Bartolic MN Dept. Human Services
Rachael Sarto MN LEND (Leadership Education in
Neurodevelopmental & Related
Disabilities, U of Minnesota
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Thanks
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www.selfadvocacy.org/programs/sam/
Slide Number 1Q: What Self-Advocacy organization exists in Minnesota?How SAM Works: Six�RegionsHow SAM is financedHow It Works: Statewide�LeadershipEach Region Takes Turn Hosting�SAM: Key FeaturesWhat are the RESOURCES �for Self-Advocates in MinnesotaQ: What has NOT worked in your state for S.A. organizations?What has worked in �Minnesota �for Self-Advocacy? What are the CHALLENGES �for Self-Advocates in Minnesota?Q: What are you �most proud of�� in regards to self-advocacy �in your state? What are the DREAMS �for Self-Advocates in Minnesota?Minnesota Summit Team ThanksSlide Number 23