People With Disabilities Foundation

Education program: pwdf's public awareness and education activities generally include outreach events, guest speaking, a quarterly e-newsletter, informational seminars,training sessions and a youtube channel, which hosts our seminar and other videos. To-date, we have 48 videos from the 3-hour educational seminars on our youtube channel. In addition,we continue to market our employment training videos regarding employees and job applicants with mental or developmental disabilities for distribution. Over the last 10 years, we have been expanding our public awareness and education program from a primarily local program to a national program thouugh live streaming technology. Our next free public awareness seminar entitled "older adults and mental health issues: diagnosis, treatment, and related awareness issues," will address psychiatric issues related to aging, including those that may onset late in life. We expected to have this live seminar in february 2025. We provide training on the americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ada), and on social security disablility insurance (ssdi) and ssi, with a focus on how the rules affect people with psychiatric, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities (p/idd). We provide these trainings locally,statewide and nationwide by live streaming, including for organizations such as nami california, nami san francisco chaper, the bar association of san francisco, and support for families of children with disabilities, among others. When appropriate, we submit public comments to governmental agencies, advocating for policies and regulatory changes as they pertain to people with p/idd, because this population is underrepresented and stigmatized.

Grant program: pwdf continued our pilot grant program, providing funds for other organizations for their work. We recently received over 400 letters of interest in support of people with p/idd.

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