ICS History
This person founded ICS.
Who is Rick Surpin?
People with disabilities always need help to do everyday tasks.
What is False? (Always ask the person if your assistance is required)
Final Jeopardy --
The first federal legislation ever passed to support people with disabilities.
What is the Act to Provide for the Settlement of Revolutionary War Soldiers in 1776.
The Act provided a pension for soldiers injured in the war.
Despite having this word in the title, the kind of program ICS runs does not provide this service.
What is Homes or Housing? (Health Home)
You will find this group, that meets monthly at ICS, singing the praises of compound interest, reheating their leftovers for lunch and thinking about want versus need.
What is the Money Club?
ICS began providing services in this year.
What is 2000?
This position is best for long conversations with wheelchair users.
What is sitting? (So you can be at the same eye level.)
Ed Roberts founded the first Independent Living Center this year.
What is 1972?
Social Determinants of Health are issues that impact the overall health of our members. These are two.
What is:
Housing
Financial security
Health care
Neighborhood
Fun will be had if this Fun Committee chair has anything to say about it.
Who is Coni Chiappe?
ICS covered these boroughs when we first opened.
What are the Bronx and Manhattan?
Personal Care Assistants are the best people to talk with when interacting with a person with a disability.
What is False? (The member or colleague is the best person to speak with in any interaction with people with disabilities.)
This incident forced disability rights legend Judith (Judy) Heumann to file her first disability rights lawsuit.
What is employment discrimination?
She wanted to be a teacher and NYC DOE thought it was too dangerous.
Three pillars that are foundational to ICS.
What are Health, Mobility and Independence?
Time that is most loved by ICS employees.
What is Wine Time?
No sleep until the year the Brooklyn office opened.
What is 2008?
This language is preferred over terms like handicapped, crippled or special.
What is people first language?
(e.g. people with disabilities, person who uses a wheelchair.) Some members of the community are comfortable with using different labels (i.e. some people may say "crips" among themselves) Best bet: if you have questions, ask the person what their preference is and then use that.
These two former ICS employees were Executive Directors of Independent Living Centers before they worked at ICS.
Who are Marilyn Saviola (CIDNY) and Anna Fay (Westchester Disabled on the Move)?
The way New Yorkers like their bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches is also the name of our wheelchair services.
What is On A Roll?
This movie taught our fearless leader all she needs to know about business.
What is the Godfather?
Ten current employees have called ICS their workplace for more than 20 years. These are two of them.
Who are
Yvette Medina Gloria (Jeannie) Harper
Rachael Stacom Ursula Lopez
Jeniffer Peralta Denise Allen
Esteban Santos Regina Estela
Viannette Oquendo Julio Gonzalez
People with speech impairments don't mind if you nod along and pretend to understand even when you don't.
What is False?
People with speech impairments know they have a speech impairment. Make sure you are using your active listening skills, paraphrase if you do not understand to make sure you are getting it and if you do not get it, ask the person to repeat themselves.
The Americans with Disabilities Act has five titles. These are two of them.
Title 1 Employment
Title 2 Access to State and Local Governement
Title 3 Public Accommodations
Title 4 Communications
Title 5 Miscellaneous
Secondary conditions that negatively impact the health of our members that we work to prevent.
What are:
Wounds
UTI
Respiratory infections
Loneliness and depression
This technique has helped many ICS employees avoid imploding during difficult workplace conversations.
What is Pull Back? (a technique taught in the Coach Approach to Communications that encourages people to take a second (pull back) in a conversation to respond in a more constructive, less defensive way.)