Agenda

10:30am Early arrival for Meet and Greet with Resource Table – Receive a FREE copy of Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons withIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities - published by Word on FIRE in September of 2025.

11am  Workshop Begins: Prayer 

Welcome and Acknowledgements: Christine and Christopher Duffley, Founders of the FIRE Foundation of New Hampshire

11:10 Mark Bradford – A Place at the Table (45 minutes)

11:55 Prayer/Lunch

Working Lunch with small group discussion – share one challenge or barrier and what is working for your parish or ministry.  

12:30pm Share answers, celebrate what is being done and acknowledge the struggles  

12:45 Deacon Geoff Ashman: Witness in both personal and parish life.  Inclusion doesn’t have to be perfect.

1pm Invited Guests - Inclusion Happening in our Diocese

Resources with Christopher Duffley 

Visual impairments in both school and parish life.

Hearing impairments in school and parish life.

DCPD and other disability organizations – Where to find resources.

1:30 – 1:45 pm – Educational Inclusion in our Schools and Religious Education Presenter:

Kelly Moore Dunn, Ed.D - Coordinator-Cabrini Institute, Executive Director of Teacher Development for Diocese of Manchester Schoolhouse Educational and Therapeutic Services, LLC

1:45: What is FIRE?

Questions & Next Steps/future supports

2pm Concluding Prayer 

Optional:  2 to  2: 30 meet and greet with Mark and Kelly and network with anyone who would like to stay a bit longer - resources available to bring back to your parish.

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