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This Just IN!

July 2023 Edition

July is Disability Pride Month! It is the perfect time to be inspired by, invested in, and inclusive of students with intellectual disabilities and to support their college dreams!

In this newsletter, you will find:

Be IN!spired: Watch our new video!
Be IN!vested: We had a blast at the 2023 Tailgate Party!
Be IN!clusive: Disability Pride Month
IN! Resources: Graduate/Parent Survey, Webinars, Office Hours, Collaboration
Community Resources: GLOBAL at Regis job, CDHE report, COEF trainings, ThinkCollege Resources

IN!'s New Video

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Watch our newest video, featuring parents, students, and graduates. Learn about the importance of and the impact of inclusive higher education from the very people whose lives have been positively changed! You can see the video here.

Tailgate Review & Thank You

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Our 2023 Tailgate Party was a huge success! We are so grateful for the outpouring of community support to help bring our event to fruition and to make it so successful! We raised enough money to continue providing more outreach and further our expansion efforts across the state. We also announced our newest expansion school, Colorado State University, which will open its Ram Scholars Program in the 2024-2025 school year! For those who could not join us, it's never too late to donate! Are you IN!?

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

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Did you know... July 26 marked 33 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed in to law? Here at IN!, we strive to be IN!clusive of everyone, because we believe inclusion is powerful in all its forms. This month we recognize and honor the many forms disability can take, and we celebrate all the successes and accomplishments of the disability community!

IN! Resources

Are you a graduate or a parent of a graduate of an IHE program in Colorado? Please help us by filling out our graduate surveys! Click this link for the graduate survey and this link for the parent survey.
August kicks off our fall webinar series! You can prepare by watching previous webinars on our Youtube channel. We are also interested in hearing from you about kinds of webinars you'd like us to plan. Please fill out this brief, anonymous form to give us your input!
We are bringing back office hours for prospective families! Have questions and want to have a personalized one-on-one meeting for guidance? Sign up for office hours at this link!
We love collaborating with schools, organizations, and other people in the diability community! Please reach out to Shayna Laing to schedule presentations and/or a resource meeting with you, your school team, or other community partners. Find her at shayna@inclusivehighered.org.

Community Resources For You

Check out these amazing opportunities to engage with community resources:

GLOBAL, Regis University's Inclusive Higher Education Department, is hiring! Want to be part of a dynamic team, working towards educational equity and inclusion everyday? Learn more about the role at this link.
The Colorado Department of Higher Education released a report on how to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, which includes 17 specific recommendations. We are so proud that our very own Executive Director, Tracy Murphy, serves on the advisory committee which helped to prepare this document! If you'd like to read the whole report, click here.
Colorado Office of Employment First (COEF) trainings continue! The trainings deliver a statewide training curriculum that educates youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families/care providers about Employment First & the possibilities, processes, potential services, systems navigation, and strategies for securing work. Click this link for the Youth Training registration. If you are interested in the Family Training Registration, click this link.
The Fall Semester is right aroud the corner! ThinkCollege has wonderful resources to help prepare and support families and students throughout the inclusive higher education process. Explore their Back to School resources here.

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Thank you for believing in inclusive higher education! We invite you to give to our mission and help us continue opening doors and paving paths to inclusive higher education in our state.

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