Minutes- December 05, 2015
PAIMI ADVISORY COUNCIL Meeting Minutes December 5, 2015 Council members present: Bettina Brownstein, Brenda Martin, TaVonda Williams, Veronica Tess Myers, Elaine Williams, Pat Highley, Tina Light DRC Staff: Tom Masseau and John Jones Chair Myers called the meeting to order at 10:00 am. Guest: Eddie Smith Approval of […]
Arkansas’ 4th Annual Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders July 14
Arkansas’ 4th annual conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) will be held July 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the College of Public Health Building on the campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Room 8/240. This conference will cover the latest information available about FASD, including best practices for […]
Requiring Job Applicants to Complete a Medical History Form is Ruled a Violation of the ADA
A federal judge recently found that an employer violated both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) by requiring job applicants to fill out a medical history form that included illegal questions about their medical history. Phillip Sullivan, a retired law enforcement officer who sought employment with Grisham Farm Products, Inc., […]
Public Comment Being Sought for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Strategic Plan
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Office of Autism Research Coordination (OARC) is soliciting public comment to assist IACC with identifying priorities for an update of the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The comment period opened June 15, 2016 and will go to July 29, 2016. The strategic […]
Making Hard Time Harder: Programmatic Accommodations for Inmates with Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Masseau or Debra Poulin – 501-296-1775 See www.AVIDprisonproject.org June 22, 2016 Little Rock, Arkansas – More than 600,000 inmates with disabilities in prisons across the country spend more time in prison, under harsher conditions, than inmates without disabilities, according to research. Today, Amplifying Voices of Prisoners with […]