Below is a list of past webinars hosted by the CLPC. Please email us at clpolicy@brandeis.edu if you have any questions or would like to learn more about our webinars.
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Fire Through Dry Grass
On January 10, 2024, the CLPC hosted a free screening of the vital documentary Fire Through Dry Grass and, the following week on January 17, an interactive panel discussion with the film's Reality Poets along with CLEC lived-experience experts.
Recording of the discussion now available
In Fire Through Dry Grass, Black and Brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased. The interactive panel took place one week after the film screening. It shed light on the intersectional experiences of disabled persons of color in institutional settings and raised awareness of the impacts of structural racism, systemic poverty, and incarceration. The campaign hopes to engage diverse stakeholders, including nursing home residents, advocates, and policymakers on community living policy reform. Tools related to resident rights will be shared with event attendees.
Disability Identity and Pride in Equity Research
The Community Living Equity Center's first ever webinar, Disability Identity and Pride in Equity Research, centered the voices of members of the CLEC Community Advisory Committee. The webinar, held on August 16, 2023, included a brief introduction of the Community Living Equity Center mission and guiding principles. Researchers discussed gaps in equity research and self-advocates shared their perspectives on disability, identity, and representation within research.
Panelists:
Janie Mejias
Andy Arias
Germán Parodi
State of the Science 2023: Community Living Policy
We hosted a three-part webinar series on State of the Science 2023: Community Living Policy.
June 12, 2023 | Webinar 1: A Reflection on Community Living Policy and Equity
June 23, 2023 | Webinar 2: Community Living Research: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Learn?
June 27, 2023 | Webinar 3: Community Living Priorities and Issues: Feedback from Stakeholders
To learn more about the webinars and to access the recordings and slides, visit our State of the Science 2023 information page.
Affordable, Accessible Housing and Community Living Policy
This webinar on December 8, 2022 featured the CLPC's analysis of the American Housing Survey, a promising practice housing case study in California, and the policy implications around housing and community living. Panelists included Kartik Trivedi, Mary Lou Breslin, and Mike Oxford.
Understanding and Addressing Unmet Needs in HCBS Through the Lens of Person-Centered Practices
On March 31, 2022, the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems hosted a webinar discussing research conducted by the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy studying how unmet needs for home- and community-based services (HCBS) might be connected to adverse outcomes such as hospitalization, institutionalization, and death. Unmet HCBS needs affect many people with disabilities and older adults. Lurie Institute researchers examined the perspectives of HCBS users themselves, who reported on the quality and sufficiency of HCBS and how these may be related to health and community-living outcomes.
Panelists also discussed the implications of the research results for person-centered planning in HCBS and what might be done to advance person-centered practices.
Discussants included Natalie Chong and Finn Gardiner of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy.
6,000 Waiting - A Film about Disability Advocacy
Three Georgia residents with disabilities fight to access Now/Comp Waiver funding that would allow them to live life on their own terms. A life guaranteed by their Olmstead rights. What happens when people with disabilities want to live outside of nursing facilities and in the community?
On October 27, 2021, the Community Living Policy Center and the Lurie Institute hosted a screening of the film 6,000 Waiting, followed by a 30-minute discussion with Naomi, Ben, and Nick, featured in the film. The discussion was facilitated by Finn Gardiner.
Panelists:
Naomi Williams
Nick Papadopoulos
Ben Oxley
Meg Ryan, Sound Off Films
Host and Facilitator:
Finn Gardiner, Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
A Conversation on the Use of Pain and Shock on People with Disabilities
On October 12, 2021, the Community Living Policy Center, Lurie Institute, Brandeis Legal Studies Program, Brandeis University Press, and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public life presented a conversation with author Jan Nisbet on the use of pain at the Judge Rotenberg Center as treatment for children and adults with disabilities. Interview of the author of the first book on the JRC was followed by a panel and audience discussion.
Moderator:
Ari Ne'eman, visiting scholar at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy and co-founder of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Jennifer Mathis, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Nancy Weiss, Director of National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities
Finn Gardiner, Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
The Biden-Harris Administration's Caregiving Initiative: Investing in Medicaid HCBS
On June 16, 2021, the Lurie Institute and the Community Living Policy Center held a webinar on the Biden-Harris Administration's historic proposal to invest $400 billion in the Medicaid HCBS program.
Opening remarks were provided by:
Henry Claypool, Community Living Policy CenterDean David Weil, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Alison Barkoff, Administration for Community Living
Attendees heard from:
Cathy Cranston, ADAPT of TexasLatoya Maddox, Liberty Resources Inc., Philadelphia
Julia Bascom, Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Amber Christ, Justice in Aging