Affiliate Connect Meeting - February

Wed, 02/21/2024 - 2:00pm EST to 3:00pm

Join our February meeting!

We meet with NCPD Affiliates on the third Wednesday of the month to address various disability-related needs of dioceses. Charleen Katra, NCPD Executive Director will present on:

Creating a Diocesan Steering Committee to Support your Ministry.

Affiliate Diocesan Directors will receive an email on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, with a link to register.

To learn if your diocese is an Affiliate, click here.

Charleen Katra, MAPS

NCPD, Executive Director

Charleen Katra assumed the position of Executive Director of NCPD in December of 2019 after having served on NCPD’s Board of Directors in 2018 and 2019. She previously served as an Associate Director in the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. For over twenty years her primary responsibility was directing the Ministry with Persons with Disabilities. Katra is the co-author of The Adaptive Teacher: Faith-Based Strategies to Reach and Teach Learners with Disabilities (Loyola Press, 2019) and the author of How to Talk to Children about People with Disabilities (Twenty-Third Publications, 2019). She has extensive experience in systematic and sacramental catechesis and has served as a national consultant, author, and speaker on the topic of inclusion for various Catholic publishers. Katra is currently a member of the Loyola Press Speaker Corp. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education and Elementary Education and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies.

Affiliate Connect Meeting - February

Charleen Katra, MAPS

National Catholic
Partnership on Disability

Promoting the Meaningful Participation
of Persons with Disabilities in Church and Society