PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Welcome to the digital face of the California Association of Post Secondary Education and Disability – the leading advocate for issues and activities assuring that students with disabilities have access to post secondary opportunities. I’ll assume that you have familiarized yourself with CAPED through a quick surf of our pages and focus on the core effort for training, information dissemination and friendship creation and renewal for our organization – our annual conference and recent accomplishments.
This is written several months before CAPED’s thirty-third annual conference in San Francisco so you still have time to come to our event and see just why we are the premiere organization in support of educators of students with disabilities at the secondary level. Our strategic plan and goals and objectives, which first saw light of day at our last leadership advance, have now been distributed widely to the membership and will soon be reviewed once again by the CAPED Executive Board. The affiliation with AHEAD is now a reality and all members have been receiving a monthly E-Updates. We have a vibrant task force examining the educational prospects of veterans returning with newly acquired disabilities and our nascent fund development arm has produced $10,000 in scholarship funds from Los Angeles Supervisor Don Knabe for members of that group who are post-secondary bound.
Many “thank yous” are deserved for the energy and efforts of those who have brought this organization to the respected status we currently enjoy in the field. Dr. Lucinda Aborn, our immediate past president, must first be applauded for her years of visionary leadership that can be seen in veritably every corner of CAPED. The Executive Board, Officer’s Council and Interest Groups have been true to their tasks of providing advice and direction in the midst of a multi-tasking environment that provides a bewildering variety of opportunities to prioritize and purse. Carl Brown from the High Tech Center Training Unit and Patrick Patterson , our webmaster, should have a nod of appreciation for their efforts past and future in reshaping the digital face of CAPED and President Elect Scott Hamilton for his tireless efforts on the legislative front in Sacramento.
Thanks to all of these CAPED stars and many, many more our future is so bright we need to wear shades. Join with us in pursuit of a sunnier future for our students and ourselves – an apt lead-in to the closing comment…..See you in San Francisco !
Best Wishes,
Bob Hughlett Ed.D.
CAPED President 2006-2008
