Statewide Inclusion Team (SIT)

Members of the Statewide Disability Inclusion Team (SIT) are people with disabilities as well as representatives invited from the community of agencies and organizations that supply services and support for people with disabilities. SIT serves as an advisory body in developing Serve Rhode Island's Inclusion and Disability Initiative. In turn, the statewide  Inclusion Team becomes a resource for recruitment and strategies - and stories of success - for their own and other constituents.

The Serve Rhode Island SIT team is made up of AmeriCorps Alum who are people with disabilities, and representatives from the following RI agencies and organizations:

• RI Department of Elderly Affairs
• PAL
• RI Department Veteran's Affairs/Veteran's Center
• The RI Statewide Independent Living Council
• PARI Center for Independent Living
• RI Developmental Disabilities Council
• The National Alliance on Mental Illness
• INSIGHT
• The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities at Rhode Island College
• RI Department of Education
• RI Department of Health, Disability and Health and Youth in Transition
• Advocates in Action
• VISTA/Senior Corps
• RI Office of Rehabilitation Services
• TechACCESS RI
• Parent Support Network
• Corliss Institute, Employment Services
• Perspectives Corporation
• RI Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities and Hospital (BHDDH), Division of Behavioral Health and Division of Developmental Disabilities
• RI School for the Deaf
• Meeting Street School

For more information on the Serve Rhode Island Disability Inculsion Initiative and the State Disability Inclusion Team, contact Kerry Burns, kburns@serverhodeisland.org.