Projects and News

Blue Tower Training Goes To Guam

March 26, 2012

Shirley Paceley, Director of Blue Tower Training, worked with the Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence in engaging people across Guam to develop practices that ensure equal access to services for survivors of violence who have disabilities. Over 100 people attended the "Call to Action" during the two-day event in March 2012.

Blue Tower Training working with the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council

January 23, 2012

Blue Tower Training is working with the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council and several other statewide partners to develop protocols for investigators and prosecutors who work with victims with disabilities who experience domestic and sexual violence. The project is part of a two-year grant from the Department of Justice Office for Violence Against Women to Encourage Arrest.

Blue Tower Training Works with The Arc of Illinois and The Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance

October 27, 2011

Blue Tower Training is working with The Arc of Illinois and The Alliance to teach and support self-advocates in becoming peer mentors to support other self-advocates in expressing choices, desires, and possibilities for future community living.

Blue Tower works with school in Peru

August 03, 2011

Blue Tower Training is working with Manos Unidas in Cusco, Peru to help the special education school develop an abuse prevention and sex education program for children and families. To learn more about the school, go to: www.manosunidasperu.net