Projects and News

Blue Tower Training working with the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council

January 23, 2012

Blue Tower Training is working with the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council and several other statewide partners to develop protocols for investigators and prosecutors who work with victims with disabilities who experience domestic and sexual violence. The project is part of a two-year grant from the Department of Justice Office for Violence Against Women to Encourage Arrest.

Blue Tower Training Works with The Arc of Illinois and The Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance

October 27, 2011

Blue Tower Training is working with The Arc of Illinois and The Alliance to teach and support self-advocates in becoming peer mentors to support other self-advocates in expressing choices, desires, and possibilities for future community living.

Blue Tower works with school in Peru

August 03, 2011

Blue Tower Training is working with Manos Unidas in Cusco, Peru to help the special education school develop an abuse prevention and sex education program for children and families. To learn more about the school, go to: www.manosunidasperu.net

Opening the Bench and Bar to People with Disabilities

July 19, 2011

Blue Tower Training is working with the Illinois Attorney General's Office to train Court Disability Coordinators across the state. There is an updated resource available titled "Opening the Bench and Bar to People with Disabilities".