Monday, January 1, 2018

NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: NOMINATION OF THE CONSORTIUM OF CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES

NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
2017-2018
American Society for Public Administration

Award Nominee 
CONSORTIUM OF CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES

The Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities, representing 100 voluntary organizations, was founded in 1973. CCD is the largest coalition of national organizations working together to advocate for federal public policy that supports self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration, and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society. 

Founding Executive Director
Paul Marchand, Arc-US

Governmental Affairs, Public Policy
 Marty Ford, Arc-US

Currrent Task Forces: In 2017, CCD hosts the following working taskforces and sections with additional information on its website: Developmental Disabilities, Autism and Family Support, Education, Employment Training, Financial Security, Health and Housing, Long Term Services and Supports, Regulation and Reform, Rights, Social Security, Technology and Telecommunications, Poverty and TANF, Transportaiton and Veterans.  The task forces actively engage iin current proposed legislation and its effects on individuals with disabilities and their families, and in proposing national leadership directions to federal levels. 
info@c-c-d.org

Nominating Statement of Julie Ann Racino
Member, American Society for Public Administration 

The Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) supports federal policies for the Nation's 
Science Centers in Disability, for advocacy and empowerment organizations, for critical policies 
for local communities and financial security, and to address the governmental affairs at the 
federal-state levels which range from the US Congress to Executive Departments, and the federal, national policy and research initiatives.

The nominating party was pleased to meet with Paul Marchand and Marty Ford in Washington, DC as part of the Task Force structurres of CCD in areas ranging from health, housing, and long-term sevices and suupports. All task force members representing diverse constituencies (e.g., mental health/illness, traumatic brain injuries, learning disabilities, deaf blindness, independent living) worked diligently to collaborate on shared, coherent public policies in the "true tradition" of public administration. 

This nominating party also worked individually in states in the US with members of the Association of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (Current Chair) as "the Center on Human Policy, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration". Current contact (CCD liaison) for these Centers is Kim Musheno, Current Chairperson, Association of Univeristy Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, 1825 K Street, NW. Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20006 (202-783-2229 and 202-534-3731).

Selected Resume (Award Acceptance): Marty Ford, Arc-US
Marty Ford is Senior Executive for ove 30 years for the Arc-US offering leadership in public policy.  The Arc-US indicates that Marty Ford served as Chairperson of the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities for three years and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Task Force for Financial Security. Marty Ford servies on the Board of the National Academy of Social Insurance and has served on the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. 

Marty Ford is a staunch supporter of community services, quality health care, and income security for individuals with disabilties, families and seniors.  As part of the Arc-US Executive Team, she led the way in community development throughout the US, more populatly known  in the 1980s as group homes (e.g., Nordic community emblem), secured the support of legislative and Executive groups, and developed and modernized the 1940s local and state chapters in the US. 

Marty Ford obtained her J.D. from George Washington University Law Center, Master's in Communication Design at the Pratt Institute, and BA from the University of Virginia. She has testified before US Congress on numerous occasions, "corresponds regularly through CCD", and provides testimony to the Ways and Means Subcommittee, House and Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Finance Committee, among others. 

Marty Ford's Biography can be found at:
www.thearc.org/who-we-are/staff/marty-ford

Marty Ford was part of the Executive Team under Arc-US Director Alan Abeson, who was part of a university Consortium of University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, and University of Illinois-Chicago with funding from the National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation. She currently serves at the Arc-US under the leadership of new Executive Director Peter Berns. Marty Ford worked at the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities with Allan Bergman who represented United Cerebral Palsy-US in the 1980s and also served (with Julie Ann Racino) as Formation Co-Chair of Public Administration and Disability at the American Society for Public Administration, 2015-2017. 

Marty Ford and Paul Marchand have been cited in the new book, Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US (Racino, 2014).

Nominating Date: October 18, 2017 for ASPA Awards in Denver, Colorado

Nomination Received: Williams Shields, Jr., Executive Director, American Society for Public Administration, October 18, 2017

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