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"Our mission is to support providers
of travel instruction for the purpose of
teaching people with disabilities and seniors
to travel safely and independently."
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IN THIS ISSUE: |
1. Membership Moving in the Right Direction
2. More Outreach
3. The ATI Code of Ethics
4. Easter Seals Project ACTION "Introduction to Travel Training"
Courses Set
5. President Obama and Disabilities
6. Forward this Newsletter |
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MEMBERSHIP MOVING IN
THE RIGHT DIRECTION
The number of ATI
members inched upward in December and early January.
We
now have 62 Individual, 21 Organizational, and 7 Auxiliary members;
and, although each Organizational member has only one vote in ATI
Board of Directors elections and other association matters, if we
counted our non-voting travel trainer members who work at our
Organizational member entities, ATI is way over the century mark! We
want to thank members who have taken one of the key points from our
“future of ATI” discussion at the August 2008 conference—the need to
expand outreach about ATI—to heart, by actively signing up new
members. Thank you ATI, and keep it moving forward. |
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MORE OUTREACH
During
December, ATI
e-mailed a press release about the date of our 2009 St. Louis
conference and the availability of this E-newsletter to directors of
University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
We also received two commitments via e-mail to print this release in
the February e-newsletter of NICHCY—the National Dissemination
Center for Children with Disabilities; NICHCY is operated by the
Academy for Educational Development, and it is funded by the Office
of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education.
Our second commitment came from the COO of the large, Washington,
D.C.-based American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD),
to print at least a portion of the ATI release in their next member
newsletter. Also, an announcement of the ATI E-News’ availability
was found in the bi-monthly Easter Seals Project ACTION Update print
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THE ATI CODE OF ETHICS
At
an August 17, 2008 Directors meeting, the ATI Board voted to send
out our Code of Ethics to the membership, requesting only that each
Individual and Organizational member read it, and then sign and
return the simple form at the end of the Code to ATI.
Please read it over by
clicking here.
Organizational members are asked to select one
person from the organization as its “voting member” to accomplish
this task. It is important to point out that ATI will begin the
process of updating our online Registry of members soon, and that
Individual and Organizational members are asked to read, sign, and
return the Code of Ethics form to ATI in order to be listed in the
Registry. If for any reason you are having trouble clicking through
to the Code of Ethics, you can also find it on the ATI Home page,
www.travelinstruction.org. |
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EASTER SEALS PROJECT
ACTION "INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL TRAINING" COURSES SET
Dates and locations for the three
remaining ESPA travel training courses have been finalized.
They are April 28 to 30 in Dallas, TX; June 22 to 24 in Sacramento,
CA; and, August 11 to 13 in Weehawken, NJ, just outside of New York
City. These popular three-day, hands-on training events get booked
up quickly so readers are urged to reserve your spot sooner rather
than later. For additional information, go to
http://projectaction.easterseals.com. |
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PRESIDENT OBAMA AND
DISABILITIES
At 12:01 PM
on Inauguration Day, our new president and his staff hit the ground
running
by launching the new White House website,
http://www.whitehouse.gov.
Click on the Agenda on the top page menu, and you will find a list
of 24 critical issues that impact Americans every day.
“Disabilities” is agenda item # 3. Never before has a newly-elected
president started from minute 1 of his presidency with such an
informed recognition that disability issues need to be worked on,
and that they require effort starting now. ATI urges its members to
check out the “Disabilities” page. It is interactive, and it is a
chance for travel trainers to educate the Obama Administration about
who we are, what we do, and what we need in order to grow our
profession. |
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FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER
Know other travel trainers who are
not ATI members, or other persons simply interested in ATI’s
mission?
If so, please forward this issue
to them. Help ATI build our membership and attract new sponsors! |
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