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NEADS Navigating the Transition to Post-Secondary Education and Financial Assistance Program Information Session


Join the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) team on August 28 2024, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm EDT, for an information session about the transition to post-secondary education and our financial assistance program. Katja Newman, NEADS’s Financial Assistance Program Director, will discuss topics that will be particularly useful to students with disabilities who are new to post-secondary including: how to access post-secondary accommodations, your rights as a disabled post-secondary student and much more. Additionally, disabled students, part of the #MyNEADS community, will also share their tips and tricks for a successful first semester. 

 

ASL and LSQ interpretation, closed captioning, and EN/FR interpretation will be provided. Registration is required – please register here. For further information and/or to discuss access needs, please contact Chloée C. Godin-Jacques, NEADS’s Lead Researcher, at chloee.godinjacques@neads.ca This bilingual event is a feature of our Virtual Access for All webinar series, which is generously supported by Employment and Social Development Canada's Supports for Student Learning Program. 

 

Meet our Presenter 

 

Katja Newman (she/her/elle) 

 

Katja Newman (she/her/elle) is the National Educational Association of Disabled Students’ Financial Assistance Program Director and Co-manager of the Building Employment Pathways For People With Disabilities Project. A resident of Nova Scotia, she is a recent graduate of the online Masters in Grant Writing and Program Evaluation Program at Concordia University Chicago. Prior to her Masters, Katja received a Bachelor's of Social Work degree from Carleton University and a Child & Youth Work Diploma from Georgian College. Outside of her work at NEADS, she enjoys hiking, walks at the beach, baking, cooking and educating audiences on the accessibility and inclusion related highs and lows that come with living life as a blind recent post-secondary graduate who navigates the world with the help of a guide dog. 

 

Chloée C. Godin-Jacques, M.A (she/they | elle/iel), Lead Researcher | Recherchiste principale, National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), Rm. 514 Unicentre, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6

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