Georgia Deaf

Greetings Region 3

Greetings!

Allow me to introduce myself — my name is Lizzie Sorkin and I recently started working with the NAD during the last week of February and hit the ground running.
I am the Director of Communications for the NAD and my duties include overseeing website content, videos on YouTube, NADmag, other social media, and certain email inquiries. I look forward to working with all of you in your roles as State Association officers, and I’ve actually contacted most of you for information regarding your state association conferences. The rest of you I hope to connect with soon! I will be working with you all on some certain tasks that require your help and input.

When you have concerns about NAD policies and positions on issues that are happening around the country, please contact the NAD Board Representative for your region
(both are copied in this email). I will communicate with you on some information-sharing issues that help all consumers that contact the NAD. Three situations have come
up recently and I am sharing them with you now:

1) I’ve attached five directories that the NAD Headquarters has on hand. However, you will note that they’re old and have yet to be updated for
several years.

We’d like to have this available online and would like your help in checking the directories with updated information that involves your state.
We don’t know the locals as much as you do — you know what’s out and what’s new. With your help, we can expedite this quickly and get it online.

Please also inform us any time there’s a change in the directory — we’ll change it right away.

If you can get this to me by July 1, 2013 — that’d be great!

(Click the underline links (PDF) below)

1.Directory #1 — Directory of State Commissions
2.Directory #2 — National Resource Directory
3.Directory #3 — Statewide Universities That Accept ASL in Fulfillment of Foreign Language Requirements
4.Directory #4 — VR Agencies
5.Directory #5 — Interpreter Agencies

2) The Social Security Administration contacted the NAD and asked that we connect with the State Associations to help spread the word about their recent ASL video:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/multimedia/video/asl/
Please help SSA and share this with your members.

3) In case you missed it — the NAD recently initiated a new program recognising different people every month.
You can watch an informational vlog about the #NADHandwave here: http://www.nad.org/may-handwave-christine-sun-kim.
We would like for you to help spread the word about this new program and to help submit names to us — again, you know your locals better than we do!

Please share #2 and #3 among your members via social media, any e-newsletters, or a mass email you have coming up.

I look forward to working closely with each of you and meeting you as our paths cross.

Cheers,
Lizzie
lizzie.sorkin@nad.org

I want to remind you about an exciting 2013 Georgia Association of the Deaf
(GAD) Conference that will be upcoming from Wednesday, July 17th to Saturday,
July 20th at University of Georgia Conference Center in Athens. Athens is a fun
town – lot of cool restaurants, conference in University of Georgia and good
networking with people.
I am encouraging you to register for the conference soon. Please check the GAD
Webpage - http://gadeaf.org
For Wednesday, July 17th, there will have pre-conference workshop from 9 am to 4
pm. The workshop – Best Practices with Deaf-Blind Consumers, that will be
presented by me and couple of Deaf-Blind. The workshop will be taught how to
work and play with Deaf-Blind consumers. It will be experienced workshop.

The tentative schedule of workshops and activities during the GAD conference as
following:

Thursday, July 18th
10:00 to 11:30 — Understanding Social Media – will be presented by Kelly Faust
1:00 to 2:30 — Total Living Community, Inc ( House for Deaf, Hard of Hearing
and Deaf- Blind) — presented by Bob Green
3:00 to 5:00 — Town Hall — presented by Amy Peterson, GAD Officers, GVRA and
GACHI staff
5:30 to 8:30 — Opening Ceremony — will be led by GAD President, Julie Burton

Friday, July 19th
9:00 to 11:00 — With You, GAD Stronger — presented and led by NAD Region 3
Representative, Chris Patterson
1:30 to 4:00 — By-Law and General Assembly — led by GAD Officers
7:00 pm — Miss Deaf Georgia Pageant and Entertainment

Saturday, July 20th
8:30 to 12:00 — General Assembly and Elections for New Officers
1:00 to 5:00 pm — ASL FESTIVAL!!!! (Georgia Deaf International Festival -GDIF
will be included)
7:00 to close Entertainment and ” Who Wants to Be A Deafillionaire?”
– The exhibits of Exhibit Hall will be from Thursday to Saturday.
– Silent Auction will be throughout GAD Conference.
The full registration includes all events – workshops, entertainments, ASL
FESTIVAL, and two meals (Thursday evening and Friday award lunch).

SO SOUND LIKE ALOT OF FUN, GO AHEAD REGISTER THE GAD CONFERENCE. MAKE SURE TO?RESERVE THE HOTEL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Please pass these information to those who do not receive through E-Peachy News.

Thank you.
COME ON AND ENJOY MEETING PEOPLE!
Bob Green, Secretary of GAD

Your donation will be greatly appreciated. It will help cover the Miss Deaf
Georgia?Pageant expenses. Planning is already underway for the next pageant.

The pageant?will take place on July 17-20, 2013 at University of Georgia Conference in
Athens, Ga.

If you like to make a donation. Please enclose your check.
Please make your check payable to GAD. Mail it to GAD, c/o MDGP, PO Box 615
Hiram, Ga 30141-0685.

Sincerely,
Nicki McBee, MDGPD
Georgia Association of the Deaf is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
http://gadeaf.org