Projects & Leadership

With all of the 2019 projects continuing to be expanded in 2020, the group officially updated our name from the Indiana Abuse Prevention Disability Task force to the Indiana Disability Justice Task Force. We continued to divide work among the Educational Subcommittee, Data Subcommittee, and Policy Subcommittee. Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Skye Ashton Kantola (Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault), and Tammy Themel (AccesABILITY) served as the executive leadership team. Objectives included:

  1. Community Strengths and Needs Assessment (CSNA): Editing the CSNA based on 2019 feedback and re-implementing a survey tool to assess safety, independence, and sexual wellness of people with disabilities in Indiana who have experienced sexual harm;
  2. Organizational Assessment Tool: Incorporating edits from the 2019 pilot of the tool, identifying an interactive software to launch the tool, and then opening the tool for use by disability services organizations in Indiana;
    are preventing harm against people with disabilities, as well as areas of improvement for disability service agencies;
  3. Educational resources: Continue creating educational resources to empower people with disabilities in their self- and community-advocacy efforts, and educational resources to support service providers, caregivers, and businesses in working more effectively with people with disabilities;
  4. Resource Hub: Transition the online hub from patreon to our own website and continue publishing resources on the hub;
  5. Webinars: Implementing at least 5 new webinars focused on disability justice and sexual violence prevention;
  6. Evaluation: Developing and implementing creative, community‐building evaluation strategies to assess Task Force effectiveness and areas of improvement.

Subcommittees

This year, the team decided to reorganize the subcommittees so that each subcommittee would be focused on a specific grant goal. For more information about the subcommittees, please visit the Subcommittee Page.

  • Executive Leadership Team
  • Branding, Marketing, Web-mastering Subcommittee
  • Community Strengths and Needs Assessment Subcommittee
  • Organizational Assessment Tool Subcommittee
  • Educational Resources Subcommittee
  • Online Resource Hub Subcommittee
  • Webinar Subcommittee