Stated Goals for the new GTU-DA

This is a collection of the goals that different members have stated for the new GTU Disability Alliance.  We are still collecting these, so if you have something that you want from this student group, please list it in the comments and we will add it.  Feel free to get crazy and dream big.

• I want a supportive group that gives me energy and peace so that when I leave meetings I feel energized and happy I made time to attend.

• I want a collective of dedicated people who are willing to follow through on their commitments. I want to be a group of active people, not one or two active people and a lot of others who just show up. I want shared leadership so no one member feels too overwhelmed.

• I want a group that has a strong and powerful student voice so we can speak out for the things we need and help the GTU and our perspective seminaries to serve our community better.

• I would like a cohesive understandable process for getting accommodations.

• I would like a support group for anxiety and depression.

• I would like to better understand how my disability accommodations work and how information is shared between my seminary's disability point person, the GTU's disability point person, and the Disability Students' Program (DSP) at UC Berkeley.

• I would like better education about our rights and our roles as people with disabilities.

• I would like a support for dealing with administrative barriers.

• I would like us to sponsor a workshop for the staff and faculty to help them learn better techniques to dealing with students who have mental health disabilities.

• I would like this group to be the foundation from which a more responsive GTU wide disabilities office is built to support all of our students.

• I would like to have a Disability Awareness Fair, so we can educate our community about the prevalence of disabilities and the nature of the challenges we live with.

• I would like to talk about holding another conference on disabilities in ministry and disabled access to churches.

• I would like to talk about what it would take to create the first Center for Disability in Religion here at the GTU