A Publication of Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center

“SPUD” Screens to Packed Theater, Helps Promote Employment in the Entertainment Industry

By the Thursday before Oscar night, the entire city of Los Angeles was abuzz with talk of the red carpet – from what the stars would be wearing to who was likely to win an Academy Award. And not too far away from the glamour on Hollywood Boulevard, near the heart of the “media capital of the world,” another red carpet was also rolled out – this one for the premiere and private industry screening of “SPUD.”

Executive Director Diane Anand says, “The aim of this screening was to promote employment of people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of the entertainment industry. What better way to demonstrate their capability than by partnering with Inclusion Films and WE Include, an initiative of California First Lady Maria Shriver, to screen a film that was written, directed, and filmed by people with developmental disabilities with production support from Inclusion Films.”

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Proposed 2010-11 State Budget Maintains Status Quo for Regional Center System

California’s economy continues to recover at a much slower pace than many other parts of the country. As a result, the fiscal crisis that has impacted all state funded programs, including regional centers, continues.

In the current year, caseload growth system-wide has been much slower than anticipated, and it is expected that this slowdown, coupled with the savings anticipated due to the changes in the Lanterman Act last summer, will be sufficient to allow the system to come in without a deficit for 2009-10. The director of the Department of Developmental Services, Terri Delgadillo, has emphasized that if the system does not come in on budget we may be in danger of losing the entitlement through legislative action.

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Keep Your Kids and Yourself Safe During Social Networking

On the Web site disaboom.com, Left Thumb Blogger wrote “For someone who has always struggled to communicate verbally and who has often felt isolated and alone when in group gatherings, social networking has opened a world to me… People get to know me based on my words, thoughts, ideas, opinions and wit. They don’t get hung up on their misconceptions or assumptions about what my disability is or isn’t, which allows us to get right to the task or topic at hand.”

As children, teens, tweens, and adults, including people with developmental disabilities, flock to blog sites, profile sites, diary sites and social-networking sites to socialize; share what they’ve been up to via chat, IM and pictures; network and be part of a virtual community, the cybercriminals are swooping in right behind to mine all of the personal information users include in their pages on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and many others.

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disaboom.com, Left Thumb Blogger wrote “For someone who has always struggled to communicate verbally and who has often felt isolated and alone when in group gatherings, social networking has opened a world to me… People get to know me based on my words, thoughts, ideas, opinions and wit. They don’t get hung up on their misconceptions or assumptions about what my disability is or isn’t, which allows us to get right to the task or topic at hand.”

As children, teens, tweens, and adults, including people with developmental disabilities, flock to blog sites, profile sites, diary sites and social-networking sites to socialize; share what they’ve been up to via chat, IM and pictures; network and be part of a virtual community, the cybercriminals are swooping in right behind to mine all of the personal information users include in their pages on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and many others.

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It’s easy to subscribe to Lanterman’s e-mail bulletins. Simply visit lanterman.org and click on “Subscribe” to provide us with your e-mail address. You will automatically be signed up to receive e-mail bulletins about information related to Lanterman Regional Center’s general activities and events.

You can also sign up for bulletins about a specific topic, such as legislative issues, or bulletins specific to a certain age, disability or area, by providing us with additional information. No information collected will be given to anyone outside of Lanterman; it’s just for the purpose of sending targeted e-mails to the Lanterman community.

There are many events, including valuable trainings and workshops, we at the Center hear about, but due to limited financial resources, we cannot mail flyers for each of these events. By subscribing to the e-mail bulletins, you too will be able to hear about them and be informed about what’s going on in the Lanterman community.

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lanterman.org and click on “Subscribe” to provide us with your e-mail address. You will automatically be signed up to receive e-mail bulletins about information related to Lanterman Regional Center’s general activities and events.

You can also sign up for bulletins about a specific topic, such as legislative issues, or bulletins specific to a certain age, disability or area, by providing us with additional information. No information collected will be given to anyone outside of Lanterman; it’s just for the purpose of sending targeted e-mails to the Lanterman community.

There are many events, including valuable trainings and workshops, we at the Center hear about, but due to limited financial resources, we cannot mail flyers for each of these events. By subscribing to the e-mail bulletins, you too will be able to hear about them and be informed about what’s going on in the Lanterman community.

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