A photo from the first slide of webinar 2. Slide title is "Legal Guardianship and Consent" followed by text, "Webinar #2 of 5, Disability Justice & Sexual Violence Prevention Series, June 27th, 2018". Below the text are logos for ICADV, MESA, and ICESA.
Description

Learn about supported decision-making vs. the levels of legal guardianship and how guardianship impacts consent among people with disabilities.

Presenters
  • Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (she/her), Prevention Specialist, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), cwilliams@icadvinc.org.
  • Melissa Keyes (she/her), Interim Executive Director, Legal Director, Indiana Disability Rights (IDR), MKeyes@IndianaDisabilityRights.org.
  • Kelsey Cowley (she/her), President, Self-Advocates of Indiana
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Reshma Sunil Rawlani, MESA Graduate Student Worker

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