John Paul Blevins This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. The Virtual Stylus --> News

   www.brockportstylus.com/archiv - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/2/2003   Last Visited: 6/29/2004

   "At the CDR, we not only fight for our rights, we help with case managing, community support, provide recreational programs for socialization, work one-on-one for independent skills, such as budgeting and maintaining an apartment, and we also work on teaching job skills," John Blevins conveyed through his interpreter, Austin Andrews.
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   Blevins, who is deaf, is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in social work, and the director of program operations at the CDR.

2. 2. NARPA 2001: Brief biographies of presenters

   www.narpa.org/biographies.2001 - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2001   Last Visited: 4/25/2008

   John Paul Blevins John Paul Blevins is the Director of Program Operations for the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester, New York. He is committed to disability rights and civil rights activism for people with all types of disabilities. He has a work history which is quite varied, including working as a sociotherapist with Deaf teenagers with emotional or behavior issues, as an independent living skills instructor with Deaf and DD/MR adults, as a residential manager for two MICA houses, and as a job coach. He was founder and administrator of a Deaf community theater group, Lights on!, in Rochester, New York. He initiated a Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program serving people who need physical assistance with activities of daily living. He also has developed a not-for-profit interpreting agency. He has developed training manuals for use in working with MICA individuals in residential programs, presented workshops on Deaf Culture at local colleges, and written numerous published articles related to disabilities.

3. 3. NARPA 2001: Brief biographies of presenters

   narpa.org/biographies.2001.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2001   Last Visited: 4/25/2008

   John Paul Blevins John Paul Blevins is the Director of Program Operations for the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester, New York. He is committed to disability rights and civil rights activism for people with all types of disabilities. He has a work history which is quite varied, including working as a sociotherapist with Deaf teenagers with emotional or behavior issues, as an independent living skills instructor with Deaf and DD/MR adults, as a residential manager for two MICA houses, and as a job coach. He was founder and administrator of a Deaf community theater group, Lights on!, in Rochester, New York. He initiated a Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program serving people who need physical assistance with activities of daily living. He also has developed a not-for-profit interpreting agency. He has developed training manuals for use in working with MICA individuals in residential programs, presented workshops on Deaf Culture at local colleges, and written numerous published articles related to disabilities.