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  2. Affiliate Connect - May

Affiliate Connect - May

Wed, 05/18/2022 - 1:00pm EDT to 2:00pm

We meet with NCPD Affiliates every month to address the specific needs of their dioceses. This month's Affiliate Connect will discuss:

"Center-Based Respite Care:  The Essentials of Getting Started"

 

Parents of children with disabilities, especially if those children have more significant disabilities, need a break from caregiving.  Your special needs ministry is uniquely positioned to provide opportunities for grace-filled encounters and accompaniment with families, their children, and the people of your diocese who will serve as volunteers. This presentation will describe the "nuts and bolts" of establishing and maintaining a center-based respite care program.

Affiliates will receive a zoom link one week prior to the meeting. 

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Toma Racunas

Tom Racunas

Tom was a public school special education teacher and administrator for 36 years.  He considered his work an apostolate.  After retiring from public education, Tom directed the Ministry for Persons with Disabilities for the Catholic Diocese of Wichita for 6 years and started the Special Needs Ministry for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas where he served for 5 years.  Tom served on the Board of Directors for NCPD for four years.  Now, he is enjoying his retirement with his wife, Becki and their children and grandchildren.  He is the chair of the Saint Margaret of Castello Special Needs Ministry for Church of the Nativity in Leawood, Kansas.  

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