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Brief mention of expanded services for young people with disabilities
1:42:35
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Council Member Althea V. Stevens briefly acknowledges and appreciates the expansion of services to ensure that young people with disabilities are included in DYCD programs. She also raises concerns about the need for consistent support and training across different programs.
- Highlights the positive step of including young people with disabilities in programs
- Expresses desire for consistent training and supports across school-year and summer programs
- Suggests considering the successful elements of Summer Rising for implementation in other programs
Althea V. Stevens
1:42:35
Thank you Councilmember Williams.
1:42:41
Just a couple of things too and I'm gonna mention summarizing quickly but I'm actually gonna be leaving a lot of that to Chair Joseph today, But there was one thing that's about summarizing that I did appreciate is we did expand to ensure that we were working with young people with disabilities.
1:42:58
That's the one thing that I do like but even with talking with council member William just today, I do think it is true.
1:43:05
A lot of times after school program all the kids are just folded in but in the same way during the school year it would be nice to have the same type of training and supports because in Summer Rising, we have powers all of a sudden that we've asked for for years.
1:43:18
We have all these different access and so just thinking about when we're thinking about this moving forward with the RFP, I hope that if it's important for this Summer Rising program in Illinois, that is just important in these other programs to be thinking about.
1:43:31
So I just want to make sure that was on the record because it is just very interesting how we make exceptions for things or you know new initiatives that come up.
1:43:41
So you know that was the one thing that I what was it?
1:43:43
Maybe a couple other things I have to summarize them, but that's one of the one things that I do appreciate about that we open it up to make sure that more young people had access.
1:43:52
So I hope to see those things moving forward.
1:43:55
And then commissioner, you had spoke about peer to peer training and stuff like that.
1:44:02
Somebody passed the legislation around that.
1:44:05
I don't know who, but there was like a package of some people doing that good work.
1:44:12
Three of them are sitting here of the package.
1:44:14
But I just wanted to know how are you guys utilizing some of that stuff that's gonna be coming up and have you guys been working with DOHMH?
1:44:21
I know that the emphasis was on schools but most of our programs are in schools and how are we gonna make sure that young people are accessing this peer to peer curriculum that they will now have and and how do we plan on using it in our programs.