The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
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Providing information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.

Public Media Forum

February 29, 2016

The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities hosted a 2-hour Public Media Forum for Council members, Partners in Policymaking graduates and allies. Approximately 100 people were in attendance on February 29, 2016. This Forum featured panelists from all the local television channels and the two major newspapers in Minnesota. The tables were turned and the audience asked questions of the panelists. Each question is captured as a chapter heading. Thank you to all panelists, attendees and Robb Leer, the facilitator for the Forum for making this event a success.

Coordinated, Comprehensive, and Collaborative Systems
1. Coordinated, Comprehensive, and Collaborative Systems
Even the Playing Field
2. Even the Playing Field
The Legal Battle Over the Right to Get Married
3. The Legal Battle Over the Right to Get Married
I Live This Every Day
4. "I Live This Every Day"
A Matter of Dignity: Star Tribune Article
5. A Matter of Dignity:
Star Tribune Article
Public Policy and Media: A Fight for Seconds
6. Public Policy and Media:
A Fight for Seconds
We Don't Walk Away from Stories
7. We Don't Walk Away
from Stories
The Word Disabled
8. The Word
"Disabled"
The Editorial Process
9. The Editorial
Process
We Need Diverse Newsrooms
10. We Need Diverse
Newsrooms
Story Coverage and the Issue of Abuse
11. Story Coverage and
the Issue of Abuse
Portrayals as the Poor Unfortunate
12. Portrayals as the
"Poor Unfortunate"
Getting the Stories to the News
13. Getting the Stories
to the News
Disabilities and Law Enforcement
14. Disabilities and
Law Enforcement
Different Experts, Different Issues
15. Different Experts,
Different Issues
Disabilities and Diversity
16. Disabilities
and Diversity
Emphasis on Disabilities
17. Emphasis on
Disabilities
Building on the Dialogue
18. Building on
the Dialogue

Interviews

Bonnie Jean Smith
Bonnie Jean Smith
Dan Reed
Dan Reed
John Hoffman
John Hoffman
Roberta Opheim
Roberta Opheim

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The GCDD is funded under the provisions of P.L. 106-402. The federal law also provides funding to the Minnesota Disability Law Center, the state Protection and Advocacy System, and to the Institute on Community Integration, the state University Center for Excellence. The Minnesota network of programs works to increase the IPSII of people with developmental disabilities and families into community life.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2401MNSCDD, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.

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