Dan Stewart - A Lasting Impact on Advocacy Across the Nation
"What she has taught me, there's no way to ever repay it." Dan Stewart met self-advocacy leader Betty Williams in 1997, when he was applying for the position of executive director of the agency now known as Achieva Resources, a disability service agency in Richmond, Indiana. Betty grew up in…
Title
Dan Stewart - A Lasting Impact on Advocacy Across the Nation
Subject
Advocacy
Self-Advocacy
Self-Advocates of Indiana (SAI)
Description
"What she has taught me, there's no way to ever repay it." Dan Stewart met self-advocacy leader Betty Williams in 1997, when he was applying for the position of executive director of the agency now known as Achieva Resources, a disability service agency in Richmond, Indiana. Betty grew up in Richmond, had been employed with Achieva's sheltered workshop, and was on the search committee. Dan was hired.
He says that during the period Indiana was closing its institutions for people with intellectual disabilities and transitioning them into the community, "I was able to work with Betty side by side." (Muscatatuck and Fort Wayne Developmental Centers closed in 2005 and 2007.) "She had a profound effect on seeing those [transitional] programs grow and develop." "The training that she did in this state over the last ten years is just, it's truly amazing." Betty became nationally known for her self-advocacy work and died in December 2018. Dan was retired director of Achieva Resources when he was interviewed in 2018, two months before her death.
He says that during the period Indiana was closing its institutions for people with intellectual disabilities and transitioning them into the community, "I was able to work with Betty side by side." (Muscatatuck and Fort Wayne Developmental Centers closed in 2005 and 2007.) "She had a profound effect on seeing those [transitional] programs grow and develop." "The training that she did in this state over the last ten years is just, it's truly amazing." Betty became nationally known for her self-advocacy work and died in December 2018. Dan was retired director of Achieva Resources when he was interviewed in 2018, two months before her death.
Creator
Indiana Disability History Project
Publisher
Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities
Contributor
Dan Stewart - interviewee
Jennie Todd - interviewer
Peggy Holtz - videographer/editor
Rights
Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Indiana University
Relation
Format
video/mp4
Language
English
Type
Moving Image
Identifier
134-mi-01
Access Rights
Open to all users
Bibliographic Citation
"Dan Stewart - A Lasting Impact on Advocacy Across the Nation " YouTube video, 00:02:45, interview excerpt 134-mi-01 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on December 5, 2018, https://youtu.be/cigwR7eJaZc.
Spatial Coverage
Indiana
Indiana, Wayne County
Temporal Coverage
1991 - 2018
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