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.
