Resources

This page contains links to a variety documents and to web sites with information on self-advocacy, self-determination, and other disability issues. There is also information about how to organize and run your own self-advocacy organization.

PFN officers and staff are available to provide technical assistance to your group or organization.  

If you would like links to your information or organization on this page  Contact Us. 

People First has many resources to help you and your chapter be successful

Videos & Media

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PFN Resources

• PFN Code of Conduct
• PFN    Advocacy Posters
•  PFN Brochure
• PFN     By-Laws​​

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Running a  Chapter

• ​After a Group has been started
• People First Manual from Missouri
• ​Simple Roberts Rules of Order
• What is  Parliamentary  Procedure?
• Working Better Together: Good and Bad Conflict
• ​Project Management
• Fundraising Basics

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Advisors

• Advisor Dos and Donts
• The Role of the Advisor (Self-Advocate Coalition of Kansas)
• The Role of the Advisor and Questions for Advisors to Ask Themselves
• ​Advisor Handbook (People First of Missouri )
•  ​ Working with Advisors and  Facilitators
• Advising Through Self-Determination
• The Role of the Advisor:  PowerPoint  on SlideRocket

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Resource Web Pages
These web sites have lots of good resources on many disability topics

• Nebraska Council  on Developmental Disabilities
• Nebraska Youth Leadership Council
•         ​Heartland Self Advocacy Resource Network
• ​   Pacific Alliance on Disability Self Advocacy​
• National Gateway to Self-Determination
• People First of West Virginia​​
• People First of Missouri​​
• Self Advocate Coalition of Kansas
• Arc of Nebraska
•  Nebraska Statewide Independent Living Council
• ​Disability Rights Nebraska

Starting a Chapter

• Starting a Chapter and Keeping it Strong
• ​Nine S​teps to Starting a Chapter
• Actions for a Successful Group​​
• How to get an Employee Identification Number (EIN) for your new chapter

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Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination

• The Little Book of Ideas, Skills & Practices for   Advocacy  
  
• What is Self-Advocacy?
•  Our Stories Videos
• The Art of Impact: A Handbook for Self-Determined Living​
• ​​​ ​Person-Centered Planning Tool
• Person-Centered Planning Facilitator's Manual
• "I" is for Individual:   A Guide to Individual Support Plans for Self-Advocates

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Policy Advocacy

• Develop a  Plan for Visiting Elected Officials
• Same Old Story: Strategies to Combat Wrong Information and Language in the Media 
•  Legislative Advocacy: Getting Your Voice Heard
• ​​​ My Health, My Choice, My Life
• It's My Choice iPad App

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Resource For Our Community Partners
How you can better support and include people with disabilities

• Effectively Including People with Disabilities  in Policy and Advisory  Groups
• Disability Etiquette for Businesses