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Partners in Policymaking
Partners Activities and Highlights

Partners in Policymaking Class 43: Session Four

Congratulations to Class 43 on completing the fourth weekend of Partners in Policymaking. On Friday, January 16, 2026, Jennifer Knapp, Scott Schifsky, Maria Trueblood, and Jayne Hager Dee served as faculty covering housing topics and communication styles. On Saturday, January 17, 2026, Dr. Steven Hunt spent the day discussing customized employment.

Class 43 January Session - group activity

Class 43 January Session - stringing pledges

Class 43 January Session – group of three doing activity

Class 43 January Session - group activity

Class 43 January Session – participant studies publication

Class 43 January Session - activity poster

Class 43 January Session - paricipant puts up poster

Class 43 January Session

Class 43 January Session paricipants taking notes

Class 43 January Session participants study poster

Class 43 January Session group discussion

Class 43 January Sessionspeaker shares poster

Class 43 January Session participant using wheelchair smiling

Class 43 January Session presenter shares slide

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session Activity

Class 43 January Session graduate panel

Class 43 January Session graduate panel

Class 43 January Sessiongraduate panel presenter

Class 43 January Session– discussion

Class 43 January Session graduate panelist

Class 43 January Session – discussion

Class 43 January Session – discussion

Class 43 January Session

Class 43 January Session – discussion

Class 43 January Session – discussion

Class 43 January Session

Class 43 January Session – discussion

Partners Online Courses (5 Free Courses)
With an Eye to the Past
Parallels In Time (A History of Disabilities)
With an Eye to the Future (Minnesota History from the 2000 to Present)
A History of Human Services (Wolf Wolfensberger – 10 Hours of Lecture)
Disability Justice Resource Center (A Resource Center for Students, Lawyers and Advocates)
Hadamar: The Forgotten Holocaust a documentary detailing Hitler's extermination of people with disabilities
The DD Act (A History of the Developmental Disabilities Act from 1970 to Present)
Bending the Arc of Disability History Presented by Allan Bergman

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