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Program Areas:
- LeaderLINKS
- Leadership Development Training
- Supports and Connections
- Informed Communities
- Proud and Powerful
- CONNECT
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- Information for Participants
- Information for Partner Organizations
- Disability History
- Models of Disability
- Model of Leadership
- CCL Newsletter
- CCL Publications
- Contact Us
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"A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership."
-Eric Werkowitz
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CCL Online Communities | Vision | Mission | Leadership Definition | Primary Functions | Goals | Guiding Principles and Values
What is Connections for Community Leadership?
Connections for Community Leadership (CCL) is a program that supports people with disabilities in becoming leaders of their communities.
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CCL Online Communities
CCL has joined two online communities to help support leadership development.
- Visit the CCL Myspace Page
- Visit the CCL Myspace Group
- Visit the CCL Facebook Page
- Visit the CCL Facebook Group
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Vision
CCL believes each person should have the opportunities and supports to be a leader in the disability rights community and their home community.
Mission
To engage people with disabilities in the leadership process, support them as they participate, and provide tools to turn their vision into reality.
Leadership Definition
A leader is someone who knows oneself and is influential in his or her organization and/or in the greater community.
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What does Connections for Community Leadership Do?
LeaderLINKS
A database to connect people with disabilities to over 2,000 leadership opportunities and organizations throughout Michigan. More information about the database.
Leadership Development Training
Find and evaluate existing trainings, identify gaps, create trainings where they do not exist, and help local groups organize leadership development opportunities. Learn more about training opportunities!
Supports and Connections
Assist leaders to fully participate in leadership opportunities, identify scholarship funds, help local groups provide accommodations, provide ongoing supports and follow-up after leadership opportunities, and offer emerging leaders networking and growth. More information about supports and connections.
College Organizations Networking Now Each Creating Ties (CONNECT)
Statewide network connecting college students with disabilities involved with student disability organizations on their campuses to each other and the resources available to them in their communities. Learn more about CONNECT.
Informed Communities
Assist people with disabilities, their families, and their allies understand national, state, and local disability issues; participate in public policy discussions; and take action on issues that affect their lives. Learn more about informed communities.
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Goals
CCL works to create:
- More inclusive communities.
- A competent group of people committed to changing the system.
- A network of allies creating system changes and building inclusive communities.
- Organizations with the capacity and skills for supporting people with disabilities.
- A network of people with disabilities who are knowledgeable about disability issues and who become leaders of their communities.
- A group of young disability activists to carry on the work of Justin Dart, Ed Roberts, Judi Chamberlain, and other influential leaders in the disability rights movement.
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Guiding Principles and Values
Inclusion
Every member of the community has the opportunity to pursue a leadership position in an area of interest to them.
Community
As participants choose the community in which they desire to lead, they are also encouraged to be active members of the disability rights community.
Focus on People, Not Programs
Leadership development is more than education and training, the Center expects to develop ongoing supportive relationships with every participant.
Self-Excellence
To lead others and make a positive and lasting impact, you must know yourself. Personal mastery of self-esteem, self-knowledge, and self-direction, are central components of leadership development.
Transparency
Information and resources are easily and readily available to anyone seeking them.
Civil Rights
Recognizing the often unacknowledged contribution of disability history in public education, disability history and experience is related to both our participants and our partners.
Diversity
All people are valued. Differences in mental or physical disability, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, marital status, and religious or non-religious background are viewed as strengths.
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Connections for Community Leadership is funded by the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council.
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