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Deaf Advocacy Network, Inc Mission Statement |
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To provide independence through advocacy, network, training and information needs of equal access, opportunities and to assist in recognizing and developing appropriate services for Deaf Individuals in Tampa Bay.
Objectives & Goals
- Every year in September, DAN will sponsor or put on events that encourages Deaf Awareness Month in September to the Tampa Bay community.
- DAN will offer a scholarship to a young Deaf adult who gets selected through our application process to attend a leadership camp through National Association for the Deaf in honor of Scott Rodgers, who is a former activist with DAN who passed away from cancer).
- We will be providing workshops throughout the hearing community to health professional to educate people about the needs of the Deaf community in the health field.
- DAN will be providing opportunities for Deaf people to get together at a local “Coffee” shop to discuss life experiences that the Deaf community have encountered, and ways we, as DAN agency, can help improve situations that arises.
- DAN will also provide training to companies in Human Resources to promote Deaf friendly awareness, and encourage hiring qualified candidates with hearing loss.
- Educational Outings will be established once a month where a group of Deaf people from the community go to a specific different place each month, and give their company the experiences of serving a Deaf group.
- Open captioned theatres, and Deaf community, DAN will work to improve the rapport between the two communities so that Deaf can have equal access to movie theatres. Also work with news channel to develop more accurate captioning.
- Giving companies education and opportunities where they offer events for Hearing people to be accessible for the Deaf community as well. For instance, a local public library would offer storytelling for hearing children, and we would address accommodations so that Deaf children have opportunity to go to this event as well.
- We would like to develop a program that focuses adults mentoring children, and encouraging more involvement between Deaf children and Deaf adults as children need role models to look up to.
- Give Deaf Senior Citizens opportunities to spend time together, and have a place to go to have fun.
- One of our core long term goal dreams is to set up a Community Deaf center for all Deaf people to come and enjoy events, and opportunities to socialize with one another.
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