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The WIND Consumer Advisory Council face-to-face meeting will be on Tuesday, April 25. The structure of the meeting will be similar to the one in December. The WIND CAC will meet in the morning then lunch will be served and the Disability Studies students will present their posters. The WIND CAC will join the WIND Advisory Council for the afternoon session. Sandy Hubert will arrange for hotel rooms for Bill McDonald, Stephanie Hines and Sammie and Julie Andrew. Zoom technology will also be available.

During the afternoon session, the finalized WIND Five Year Plan will be renewed, discussed more in depth and all members will have an opportunity to give feedback on the plan.

Sandy Root-Ellledge reported on several items:
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We matched them with mentors to be there as a sounding board for them and offering them a continuum of support.
The program will be only for parents who have children with Autism. The plan is to begin the program and eventually expand it. No one has done ECHOs for families, just like no one had conducted ECHOs for education until WIND started it. There is a group of very engaged families; they are very interested in having a sibling member join them (perhaps Caroline is interested) and grandparents because they don’t have those representatives.

WIND had been asked to have families involved with ECHO but some of the ECHO work is not appropriate for families per se. The ECHO communities are built especially for professional development. Sandy said she is a true believer in having the voice of families be heard but it’s not always best to have families involved in the various ECHO session that are currently available. For instance, the ECHO for Educational Leadership that involves superintendents around the state. They really need to have conversations that are safe within that community and they need to be able to talk amongst themselves.

Similarly, we are developing one for families. They have said that they are not sure if they want

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