Trainings
MASS delivers trainings on a variety of topics throughout Massachusetts. We have training teams across the state, with three to four self-advocates per team.
Like the rest of our organization, MASS Trainings are rooted in the rule of “nothing about us without us”. Over 95% of our trainers have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
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Request your MASS Training, Panel, or Self-advocate Speaker. Fill out the form, scroll down, and click the blue ‘Submit’ button at the end.
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What We Offer
Awareness & Action Training (A&A)
Awareness and Action (A&A) is a three-hour interactive training to educate persons with a disability and others on recognizing, reporting and responding to abuses committed against adults with a disability.
Explore, Prepare, Act (EPA)
Explore-Prepare-Act is an interactive training to educate persons with disabilities and others on how to prepare to find a job.
Service Coordinators Institute (SCI)
We deliver trainings to new DDS Service Coordinators. Our self-advocates teach the Service Coordinators how to empower their clients and provide great support.
Self-Advocacy Leadership Series (SALS)
MASS is now offering the Self-Advocacy Leadership Series (SALS)! Sign up to request this eight-class peer led series that focuses on the fundamentals of leadership!
Rainbow (LGBTQ+ and/or sexuality education) Training
Rainbow coordinator Pauline Bosma and other members of the Rainbow groups are available to provide training to self-advocates, disability professionals, and/or families about gender, sexuality, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our training is always led by LGBTQ+ self-advocates.
Contact Us
Get in touch to learn more about our trainings and how MASS can help you today.
About Our Trainers
95% of MASS trainers are self-advocates.
