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What is Reaching My Own Greatness? An interactive educational teaching tool focusing on self-determination. Designed to help people realize that they can reach their own greatness Not necessarily to cultivate leaders Not necessarily only for those individuals you consider leaders already Participants can be people with and without disabilities Participants can be any age, although the curriculum is geared toward young people
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Reaching My Own Greatness
A Training Developed By People First of Washington
www.peoplefirstofwashington.org
People First of WashingtonWe are people first, our disabilities are secondary!
• A strong and growing self-advocacy organization since 1981.
• One of the top self-advocacy organizations in the United States.
• They have developed 2 nationally recognized curriculums Reaching My Own Greatness (self-determination focus) and Mixed Voices a training program on inclusion.
• They also have numerous resources for training materials on self-advocacy, leadership, fund raising, etc.
• They created a book called No More BS that has been shared around the world and is in the Supreme Court Library.
• They have a number of other resources listed on their website.
EDUCATE, ADVOCATE, CELEBRATE www.peoplefirstofwashington.org
What is Reaching My Own Greatness?
• An interactive educational teaching tool focusing on self-determination.
• Designed to help people realize that they can reach their own greatness
• Not necessarily to cultivate leaders• Not necessarily only for those individuals you
consider leaders already• Participants can be people with and without
disabilities• Participants can be any age, although the
curriculum is geared toward young people
What is RMOG?
• The full RMOG training includes topics on:•What is Self-Determination?•Who I Am•What do I Want?
•How do I get what I want? •Communication•Road Blocks•Responsibility and Community
Action
ThinkWants/
Needs
Feeling
s
Adapted from The Awareness Wheel Copyright 1989. Interpersonal Communication Program, Inc. Littleton, CO
RMOG is “Hands-On”Each RMOG unit has
at least one activity, most units have multiple activities.
Here are a few examples: Mirror, MirrorMagazine CollageAction PlanBody LanguageBumps in the RoadCommunity Collage
Dream Catcher Activity
Training Stipulations• The training should be presented by a
person with a disability and their support person.
• The Units should be completed in order, although you can skip units.
• e.g. You can complete Units 1 & 3, in that order, but you would not want to complete 3 and then 1 or skip around
• Always give credit to People First of Washington
Support People• Can be teachers, parents, friends,
other family members
• Support people do not actively participate, they observe and step in when called on
Blindness & Visual Impairment
• This training is very visual.
• There are some large print materials, but for the most part it has not been adapted for individuals with blindness or VI.
• You could adapt your own materials for a group with blindness or visual impairment
Contact Information
Jane Leifeste, Transition Services Coordinator
ARCIL, Incorporated825 E. Rundberg Lane, Ste. E-6
Austin, Texas 78753(512)832-6349
Contact Information
Erin Wilder, Regional Transition SpecialistDARS/Division for Rehabilitation Services
6400 Highway 290 East, Ste. 201Austin, Texas 78723
(512)[email protected]
