Learning Series
Enhancing Services for LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals with IDD
We are excited to announce the launch of the PRIDES Learning Series, proudly sponsored by ODHS/ODDS. This series is dedicated to improving services for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) who are part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Participants can engage with a variety of dynamic learning formats, including webinars, podcasts, and micro-lessons.
Project purpose: Strengthen service equity for individuals with IDD who are part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community by developing and providing quality training for employment service providers.
Upcoming Webinars:
Podcast:
Micro-Lessons:
Watch the same great trainers and content in bite-sized, easy-to-digest video segments!
Click the “V” on any video to expand it to full-screen.
Past Webinars:
Meet the Presenters:
Daniel Ensley
Oasis Youth Center
Daniel (he/they) is a queer, transmasculine person of color whose identity and lived experiences deeply inform his work and provide a unique perspective on issues related to equity.
Pauline Bosma
Rainbow Support Groups
Pauline is the founder and coordinator of the Rainbow Support Groups of MA for LGBTQ+ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Dr. Oscar Hughes
Dr. Oscar Hughes conducts research about gender, sexuality, and disability. He is currently a postdoc at UMass Boston studying neurodiversity-affirming practices to support autistic students.
Lindsay Piper
Lindsay, MS, MNLM, GCSE, (she/her), is a sexuality educator and advocate, currently working as a sexual assault prevention specialist with the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities community.
Arc Telos Saint Amour
Youth MOVE National and Arc Telos Consulting
Arc Telos Saint Amour (they/them) is a neurodivergent, autistic, disabled, queer and trans, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming person of Mexican Indigenous descent (Coahuiltecan), and a victim/survivor of childhood trauma who deeply believes self-agency and bodily autonomy.
Nicole Adler
Nicole for Love
Nicole Adler is a speaker, human rights advocate, and host. She is a two-time governor-appointed council member of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities and made history as the first Grand Marshal for SF Pride with Down syndrome.
Phyllis Holton
Quality Trust
Phyllis is the Deputy Director of Outreach and Development at Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities, an advocacy organization supporting people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Thomas Mangrum, Jr.
Project ACTION!
L.Thomas Mangrum, Jr., is a strong self-advocate, eloquent speaker, and Co-President of Project ACTION!, a regional self-advocacy coalition in the District of Columbia.
Nicholas R. Burton
N. Burton Consulting LLC
Nick Burton is the CEO at N. Burton Consulting LLC with over 25 years working in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) focusing on programmatic design, implementation, and evaluation.
Hannah Voss
Work Opportunities
Hannah Voss (they/she) is a Whatcom and Skagit County Program Manager at Work Opportunities. They hope to share perspectives from both lived experience as a queer and gender-non-conforming employee as well as their professional experience providing advocacy and support to LGBTQIA+ individuals with disabilities
Nancy Peterson
Columbia Basin College
Nancy Peterson MEd, MAT, (they/them), is Disability Services Accessibility Specialist with Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington, and a member of the Oregon Disabilities Commission. Having been born both autistic and with a rare degenerative brain disease that took 22 years to diagnose, they learned how to advocate for themselves and were moved to help others do the same.
Jillian Nelson
Jillian Nelson is a Queer autistic adult from Saint Paul, MN and is the full time Policy Director for the Autism Society of MN (AuSM). Jillian is passionate about disability justice and teaching others to advocate for themselves, as well as reforming existing systems through legislation and advocacy to create a more equitable and accessible society for people with all types of disabilities