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Building Bridges: Advancing Supported Decision-Making in Diverse Communities

Conference Date: Saturday, Oct 25, 2025. 9am-5pm
Location: 
Contact: sdmconference@csueastbay.edu

Conference is free for presenters and participants with registration. 

Submission deadline: Monday, June 2, 2025

The Building Bridges: Advancing Supported Decision-Making in Diverse Communities conference aims to address SDM for professionals in California in education, healthcare, speech pathology, social work, social services, behavioral health, law, financial management, nonprofit organizations, and others who work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). 

In 2022 California granted formal recognition of Supportive Decision Making (SDM) with the passage of . While the harms of conservatorship gained some recognition in the 2020s, there remains a lack of awareness about SDM as an alternative to conservatorship. Providers who serve individuals with IDDs and their families are in a unique position to recognize the strengths and needs of such individuals and support their ability to exercise self-determination. This conference aims to increase knowledge and application of SDM with professionals, facilitate community dialogue, and work towards a cultural shift to implement AB 1663 to reduce the use of conservatorship.  

Driven by the disability justice principle of intersectionality (, 2015), which recognizes and values the multiple aspects of human diversity that coexist with disability, including but not limited to gender, age, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, language, immigration status, religion, and more, we seek panels, workshops and community conversation sessions that can increase the capacity for professionals serving diverse people with IDDs and their families to provide relevant and culturally responsive information about SDM. We highly encourage participation by individuals with lived experience with SDM, and professionals and organizations working in vulnerable communities, including rural, urban, non-English speaking, unhoused, system-involved, and Native/Tribal communities.

This conference is made possible by funding from the .

Possible topics can include (not exhaustive): 

Workshop topics:

• Disability Justice and SDM
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in K12 Education
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in Speech Pathology
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in Social Service and Behavioral Health settings
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in Healthcare
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in Law
• 麻豆蜜桃AVing SDM in Finance
• Transitioning out of conservatorship

Panels or Community conversations:

• My SDM journey: Sharing stories of personal narratives 
• Feminist resistance to conservatorship
• SDM in the Deaf community, and the Deafblind community
• SDM in immigrant (and undocumented) communities 
• SDM in Black communities
• SDM in Latine/x/o communities
• SDM in Asian American communities 
• SDM in Pacific Islander communities
• SDM in Native American communities
• SDM in the context of the current federal administration
• Balancing dignity of risk, autonomy, self-determination, and protection
• When SDM just isn’t enough: Vulnerable communities address the limits of the law

Submit a proposal for a workshop, panel or community conversation.

Our conference is free of cost but participants must register. Registration will open in July, 2025.

Our featured artist:

Freeman's art is available at 

Sher-ron Freeman is a talented multimedia artist and painter. Her use of vibrant hues and layered compositions are a common theme in her work and she often looks to wildlife, whether that is animals, flowers, or foliage, as inspiration for her brightly colored pieces. Her drawings and paintings have a dynamic energy found in abstract expressionism and action painting, though Freeman is steady and careful to execute her work. When creating original fashion pieces, pillows, or wall hangings, she utilizes a grab-bag of small textural materials including sequins, paper, lace, and beads. ()

We are grateful to Sher-ron Freeman and Creative Growth for granting us permission to feature Freeman's at our conference. 

More featured speakers to be listed as conference nears. 

PARKING
provides free parking for conference participants.

• ADA accessible parking is available in the THEATER lot and FORUM lot as well as in the 7th Street lot.
• General parking is free in the 7th Street lot. (cross street Fallon St.). The parking lot is staffed by a security guard.

GROUND TRANSPORTATION
 connects the San Francisco Peninsula with the 麻豆蜜桃AV and South Bay. The BART connects with .  

• Laney College is located directly off the BART line,.

Jack London Square Station: 245 Second Street, Oakland, CA 94607
 connects the Sacramento region with the Bay Area, and stops at the Jack London Square Station. 

• Laney College is 0.7 miles from the Oakland Jack London Square Station. (Walking is not recommended.) 

AIR TRANSPORTATION

1 Airport Dr, Oakland, CA 94621

• Laney College is less than 9 miles north of the Oakland International Airport.
  You can take the BART from OAK to Laney College. For information: 

Other Bay Area airports include:

OTHER TRANSPORTATION HUBS

: 10 Clay Street, Oakland, CA, 94607 

• Laney College is less than 2 miles from the Oakland ferry terminal. (Walking is not recommended.)

Hotels nears Laney College:

• : 988 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94607 (near 12th St. BART station)
• 378 11th St. Oakland, CA, 94607 (near 12th St. BART station)
• : 1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94607 (near 12th St. BART station)
• Ramada by Wyndham Oakland Downtown City Center: 371 13th St. Oakland, CA, 94612 (near 12th St. BART station)
• : 1755 Embarcadero, Oakland, CA, 94606 
• : 1717 Embarcadero, Oakland, CA, 94606 

Places to visit: 

• : 649 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612
• : 1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA 94607
• : 472 Water St., Oakland, CA 94607 
• : 568 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA 94610