Back Home in Indiana Alliance Fair Housing for People with Disabilities

The Back Home in Indiana Alliance is

pleased to announce the webinar ...

Fair Housing for People with Disabilities

with

Amy Nelson, Executive Director

Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana

Monday, January 29, 2018 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM (EST)

Overview: Fair Housing for People with Disabilities

The Fair Housing Laws provide several protections for persons with disabilities, the class of people with the highest percentage of Fair Housing Complaints within the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development.

In this training, we will focus on a general overview of fair housing laws, and a detailed discussion of reasonable accommodations and reasonable modifications for people with disabilities.

About the Speaker:

Amy Nelson began as the first Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana in October 2011. She has worked in fair housing nonprofit organizations since 1997. From December 1997 to September 2009, she was the Executive Director of the Fair Housing of the Dakotas (FHD) serving North and South Dakota. The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana has had several significant cases addressing housing discrimination against those with disabilities and families with children and sexual harassment against women.

Amy is active in her Indiana community and nationally, including serving as: a current member of the Board of Directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance; a member of the Indianapolis Continuum of Care (CoC); a member of the Indianapolis GIPC Race & Cultural Relations Leadership Network; a member of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis; a member of the Indianapolis Great Places Vitality Committee and; a board member of the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development She is a 2015 recipient of the Central Indiana Realtist Association “Best of the Best” Award.

Amy received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business and Political Science from Minnesota State University-Moorhead of Moorhead, MN and received her Master of Business Administration from Averett College of Danville, VA.

Moderator: Deborah McCarty, Executive Director. Back Home in Indiana Alliance

Who should attend: Persons with disabilities, their families and friends; representatives from Indiana Area Agencies on Aging and Centers for Independent Living; members of the affordable housing community; public housing agency representatives; property managers; civil rights leaders; HUD program participants; and representatives and members of advocacy and service provider organizations including, ARC, IN-ARC and IACED.

Cost: No cost due to the support of our Sponsors.

You can also call the Back Home in Indiana Alliance at 317.638.2392 to register via telephone or email a request for disability-related accommodations to Deborah McCarty at dlmccart1@aol.com. Please request accommodations by Monday, January 22, 2018.

Registration will be closed on Friday, January 26, 2018 at 12 noon.

Sponsors:

This webinar is made possible through the generous support of the

Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities,

Indiana University School of Education – IUPUI

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Aging, Money Follows the Person Program.