Toward Culturally Responsive Disability Services:
An International Conference

An international conference on Culturally Responsive Disability Services will be held October 6 and 7, 2008, in Niagara Falls, New York.

Themes

• Cultural competency education and training (pre service and in service)
• Best practices in providing culturally responsive services in the disability and health services
• Acquiring and strengthening cultural competence through international experience
• Research on cultural competency

Sponsor

• The Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) at the State University of New York at Buffalo

Co–Sponsors

• The International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation (ICDR) at the University of Toronto
• The Ethno–Racial People with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario (ERDCO)
• CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre
• Refugee Cultural Competency Training Program, University at Buffalo Medical School
• Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research, University of Illinois at Chicago