Individual and Family Advocacy Committee (IFAC) Goal:
Our goal is to support the human rights of individuals and families to participate fully in their community.
IFAC Activities
IFAC Objective 1
Adult Continuing Education
To locate and find out about models of adult continuing education
programs for personal development, that meet the needs of
people with all abilities (with emphasis on courses that
provide better preparation for employment).
IFAC Objective 2
Service Learning
* To support service learning opportunities for all learners.
* To help schools and youth programs include students with all
abilities in service learning.
IFAC Objective 3
Inclusive Education
Support Inclusive Education... to promote access to the general
education curriculum in the most natural setting for each student.
IFAC Objective 4
Self-Determination
* To provide leadership and self-determination training, developing
skills so that people can be effective advocates at the community, state
and national levels.
* IFAC Committee members advise the staff about the Committee's
purpose, may do some public speaking, and may connect the
Council to new or personal networks to help get the work
of the Committee done. The videos below,produced by the R.I. Governor's Commission on Disabilities, present aspects of
self determination that are important to people with disabilities.
