Contact:

Contacts: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821 Bonnie Smith, (505) 277-6605

March 19, 2002

SECOND ANNUAL NEW MEXICO DISABILITY CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

The second annual New Mexico Disability Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, March 21-22, at the Albuquerque Convention Center, in the lower level of the West Complex. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. A banquet is scheduled for Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m. The conference is partially sponsored by the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at the University of New Mexico, the New Mexico Human Rights Coalition and the UNM Center for Developmental Disabilities, as well as several other local agencies.

The conference, “Continuing Toward Equality in the New Millennium,” will feature a variety of plenary sessions, workshops and exhibit booths. Workshop topics include the American with Disabilities Act, Transportation and Fair Housing, Internalized Oppression; Aging and Disability, Environmental Illness and Access, Women and Disability, Wellness, Recreation and Disability, Early Childhood, New Mexico Higher Education and Disability, Technical Assistance, Relationships ­ Intimacy and Sexuality, Disability and Culture and Disability and Family.

The conference is designed for people with disabilities, students, service providers, policymakers, private and nonprofit agencies, local and state agencies and anyone working with disability issues. The registration fee to attend the conference is $50 per person, which includes the banquet. The cost for banquet attendees only is $20. To attend the conference for one day is only $20.

For more information, to register or to request disability accommodations, contact Mary Beresford at (505) 452-8881 or via e-mail at mberes@aol.com, Bonnie L. Smith at (505) 277-6605 or e-mail bonniels@unm.edu.

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The University of New Mexico
Public Affairs Department
Hodgin Hall, 2nd floor
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0011
Telephone: (505) 277-5813
Fax: (505) 277-1981