When: June 25, 2022 Where: Sheraton Hotel, Springfield MA Featuring keynote speaker, author and self-advocate Dr. Temple Grandin! About Dr. Temple Grandin, from West Region Self Advocacy’s Speaker Announcement: Dr. Grandin is a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior.  Today she is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.  [...]

The Provider - Vol. 40 - No. 5 May 2019 Ness Bellini, right, and self-advocate Cassandra at the 2018 Caring Force Rally. Ness Bellini, West Region Self-Advocacy and Rainbow Support Group Coordinator has been with the Western Massachusetts Training Consortium since September 2017. On a typical day, Bellini offers individual support to self-advocates, attends to meeting and event preparation [...]

Consortium's Self-Advocacy program will be hosting its 13th Annual West Region Self Advocacy Conference! Saturday May 21, 2016, 9:00am – 3:15pm Sheraton, 1 Monarch Place, Springfield, MA 01144 The 2016 West Region Self-Advocacy conference will offer a chance for self-advocates (adults who experience developmental challenges) and supporters from across Western Mass and beyond to come [...]