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  2. Affiliate Connect February 2025: Creating a Website that Relates

Affiliate Connect February 2025: Creating a Website that Relates

Wed, 02/19/2025 - 2:00pm EST to 3:00pm

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

Intentional, Engaging, Informative: Creating a Website that Relates

Hear from a diocesan leader about her decision-making as she worked with colleagues to intentionally create an engaging and informative website. Consider how your diocesan website can assist persons with disabilities and their families find faith communities that are welcoming and meet their needs.

Diocesan Directors of Affiliate Dioceses will receive an email on Wednesday, February 12 with a link to register. Invite your webmaster to join you!

Allison Sturm

Allison Sturm

Ministry Specialist with Persons with Disabilities, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

Allison Joy Sturm has served as the Ministry Specialist with Persons with Disabilities since 2010. In her fifteen years with the Diocese of Fort Wayne- South Bend she has worked in twelve different ministries connected to pastoral ministries and evangelization. 

Her work has been formed by her personal experiences. Allison is oldest of five children and a mother of five. Her youngest sister Jennifer was born with down syndrome and died before turning three. Jennifer’s short life had a profound impact as did the example that her parents set by their devotion to caring for Jennifer despite being encouraged to institutionalize her. In 2017 the care that her husband received during the four months that he suffered before dying of an anoxic brain injury taught her that how we respond and accompany someone, even when we can’t change the outcome, makes a difference.

Allison received her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame in 1984 and her Master of Science in Elementary Education from the Indiana University, Fort Wayne in 1989.

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