Founded in 1989, the IASE is an organization of professionals and family members of people with special needs from around the world. 

IASE is dedicated to improving the quality of life and service delivery for all individuals identified as having special needs.

Members include teachers, teacher trainers, professors, speech clinicians, psychologists, health care providers, social workers, counselors, family members and those associated with related disciplines.

Our international nonprofit organization provides resources for living in the gentle power of gratefulness, which restores courage, reconciles relationships, and heals our Earth.

That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
- Lise Hand

Our name, The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, fits our existing mission perfectly: to significantly increase awareness, understanding, commitment, and action relative to the public service role of higher education in the United States.

   

The 18th Annual National Service-Learning Conference
Beyond Borders, Beyond Boundaries
March 28 – 31, 2007
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Originating in Minnesota in 1989, The National Service-Learning Conference is the largest gathering of youths and adults involved in the service-learning movement. In 2006, it drew nearly 3,000 attendees from across the United States and 12 other countries.

The conference focuses on service-learning as a way of teaching and learning that builds academic skills and citizenship while addressing community needs in a genuine way. It convenes teachers and other service-learning practitioners, administrators, educators of preservice teachers, researchers, policy-makers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, national service members, community-based organization staffs, and corporate and foundation officers.

The conference connects participants with service-learning leaders through three days of plenary sessions, featured forums, and service projects. It also provides access to new ideas and networking opportunities, with more than 200 workshops.

Florida Network for Global Studies

…promoting global understanding through intercultural communication and competencies.Established in 2003 and supported by US Department of Education Title VI funding, the Florida Network for Global Studies (FNGS) is a consortium of Florida universities dedicated to fostering activities that strengthen expertise and interest in transnational and global studies issues.

Effectively utilizing key active global studies programs already in place throughout Florida, FNGS aims to advance the exchange of information and analyses of economic, political, social and technological changes taking place in a increasingly globalized world. FNGS strengthens an awareness of such issues through research, curriculum development and multi-tiered outreach initiatives to the wider education, business and media communities, as well as the general public.

FNGS partner universities are committed to meeting the educational needs of Florida’s citizens through both on-campus and off-campus programs, holding lectures, workshops, and conferences throughout the State.

The mission of the National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is to promote the full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of the arts community. The NADC is a leading consultant in the arts and disability community, and the only center of its kind. Our information is aimed at artists with disabilities, arts organizations, museums, arts administrators, disability organizations and agencies, performing arts organizations, art centers, universities, arts educators, and students. The NADC is a project of the University of California, at Los Angeles, Tarjan Center.

June 27-July 1, 2007 Atlanta, GA

The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression. The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other’s experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

The USSF sends a message to other people’s movements around the world that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at home and abroad.

We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning the path to get there. A global movement is rising. The USSF is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world Another World is Possible!