Projects and News

The Criminal Justice Response to People with Disabilites

July 30, 2010

Blue Tower Training is working with the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council to organize a statewide conference on improving the criminal justice response to people with disabilities.  Save the date for this important educational event.  

The Criminal Justice Response to People with Disabilites:  Ensuring Fairness, Equality, and Dignity on November 3 at Northfield Inn and Suites, Springfield. 

For more information, visit www.IFVCC.org

 

Assisting Crime Victims with Disabilities

June 08, 2010

Blue Tower Training recently worked with ICF International to record the stories of people with disabilities who are the survivors of crime for a training curriculum created for the Office for Victims of Crime. The training "Assisting Crime Victims with Disabilities" will be offered to crime victims service providers across the nation. Blue Tower Training recruited, interviewed, and recorded four people for this important project

Illinois Imagines

June 08, 2010

Illinois Imagines is a statwide collaborative funded by the Office for Violence Against Women. Blue Tower Training has served on the statewide collaborative team since 2006. The vision of Illinois Imagine is "All women with disabilities will be guaranteed an environment free from sexual violence, where they are empowered to speak and act for themselves. Survivors of sexual violence will be assured a proactive, individualized, compassionate response to their experience." For more information, contact Shirley Paceley, Director of Blue Tower Training.

Disability History and Awareness Legislation Becomes Law in Illinois

August 13, 2009

Written by self-advocates and driven by Illinois Voices, the school code in Illinois now requires an annual disability history and awareness campaign! The campaign shall be designed to:

  • increase public awareness and respect for people with disabilities,
  • teach future generations that people with disabilities have a rich history and have made valuable contributions,
  • teach future generations that disabilities are a natural part of life, and
  • people with disabilities have a right to be treated with civil, legal, and human rights and as full human beings above all else.

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“Illinois Voices has allowed me to meet new people. I’ve also been able to take charge of my life and be a role model for those people who have trouble speaking up for what they want in front of people. I’ve traveled to different places to do workshops and am blessed and happy to help people by showing them what people with disabilities can do.”

Erica Jones
Trainer, Braille translator, self-advocate

Contact Us

Blue Tower Training
2121 Hubbard Ave.
PO Box 2760
Decatur, IL 62524
217-875-8890
E-mail: SPaceley@maconresources.org