Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council

🎉 2027 LIFE Conference Silver Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉
We are excited to recognize Arc of Delaware as a Silver Level Sponsor of the 2027 LIFE Conference!
We appreciate their generous support and partnership in helping bring together people with disabilities, families, professionals, advocates, and community partners for a day of learning, sharing, networking, and taking action.
👏 Thank you, The Arc of Delaware, for supporting the 2027 LIFE Conference and helping make this important event possible!
Did you know LIFE represents four important areas that are at the heart of the conference?
L – Legislation
I – Independence
F – Families
E – Education
📅 January 27, 2027 | Bally’s Dover Conference Center
🎯 2027 Theme: From Advocacy to Action
Registration is open! Join us as we bring LIFE to the theme From Advocacy to Action and continue creating opportunities for people to learn, connect, and get involved.
🔗 Register: https://lifeconferencede.org/registration/
Interested in supporting the 2027 LIFE Conference? Sponsorship opportunities are still available for organizations and businesses!
🔗 Sponsorship information: https://lifeconferencede.org/sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Stay tuned as we continue celebrating the organizations helping make the 2027 LIFE Conference possible!

🎉 Welcome to the Council, Amelia Khalil 🎉

We are excited to welcome as one of our newest Council members!

Amelia was appointed by Governor Matt Meyer to represent the ofDelaware Division of Developmental Disabilities Services - DDDS. Amelia serves as Deputy Director of DDDS and brings valuable knowledge and experience to our Council.

We look forward to working alongside Amelia as we continue to educate, advocate, and inform and advance our work on behalf of Delawareans with developmental disabilities and their families.

Please help us welcome Amelia to the Council and congratulate her on her appointment! 💙💚

🎉 2027 LIFE Conference Gold Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉
We are proud to highlight Interim HealthCare of Delaware as a Gold Level Sponsor of the 2027 LIFE Conference!
Their generous support helps us create a day where people with disabilities, families, professionals, advocates, and community partners can come together to learn, exchange ideas, build relationships, and strengthen our community.
👏 Thank you, Interim Delaware HealthCare, for your generous partnership and support of the 2027 LIFE Conference!
📅 January 27, 2027 | Bally’s Dover Conference Center
🎯 2027 Theme: From Advocacy to Action
Join us! Registration is open, and we encourage you to register and be part of a day focused on moving From Advocacy to Action.
🔗 Register: https://lifeconferencede.org/registration/
Want to support the 2027 LIFE Conference? Sponsorship opportunities are still available for organizations and businesses interested in helping make this important event possible.
🔗 Sponsorship information: https://lifeconferencede.org/sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Stay tuned as we continue celebrating and thanking the organizations supporting the 2027 LIFE Conference!

🎉 2027 LIFE Conference Gold Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉
We are excited to recognize First State Residential Living as a Gold Level Sponsor of the 2027 LIFE Conference!
Support from organizations like First State Residential Living helps make it possible to bring our community together for a day filled with valuable information, meaningful conversations, new connections, and opportunities to turn ideas into action.
👏 Thank you, State Residential Living, for your generous support and commitment to the 2027 LIFE Conference!
📅 January 27, 2027 | Bally’s Dover Conference Center
🎯 Theme: From Advocacy to Action
Be part of the 2027 LIFE Conference! Registration is open, and we encourage you to secure your spot and join people with disabilities, families, professionals, advocates, and community partners from across Delaware.
🔗 Register: https://lifeconferencede.org/registration/
Interested in becoming a sponsor? There is still an opportunity for your organization or business to support the 2027 LIFE Conference!
🔗 Sponsorship information: https://lifeconferencede.org/sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Stay tuned as we continue celebrating the organizations helping make the 2027 LIFE Conference possible!

📚 Literacy is More Than Just Books!
Join us for our next Power in Our Voices event as we explore how literacy impacts every part of our lives—from healthcare and employment to finances, technology, self-advocacy, and everyday life. Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
We are excited to welcome back Tina and Mateo Moreno, who presented at the 2025 LIFE Conference! Together, Tina and Mateo bring professional and lived experiences in literacy, AAC, communication, and assistive technology. Their combined experiences help demonstrate what is possible when people with disabilities have access to the right tools, instruction, opportunities, and expectations to learn. They will share Comprehensive Literacy for All, an approach for helping students with a wide range of disabilities develop critical literacy skills they can use inside and outside the classroom. Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
This event is for individuals with disabilities, family members, educators, legislators, professionals, advocates, and anyone who wants to learn more. Everyone has the right to learn how to read, including people who learn or communicate differently and people who use assistive technology.
📅 Wednesday, November 4, 2026
⏰ 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Delaware State Troopers Association
500 Messina Hill Road, Dover, DE Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
🍽️ Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.
♿ Need an accommodation to participate? Please include your accommodation request when registering.
Register today:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YB956PM
Literacy is for everyone. Literacy is everywhere. Literacy is more than just books.

Image Description: Power in Our Voices event flyer promoting a November 4, 2026 literacy event in Dover. The flyer features diverse people with and without disabilities using books, tablets, and assistive technology and highlights literacy as more than reading and writing, including health, technology, finances, employment, and self-advocacy.

📚 Literacy is More Than Just Books!
Join us for our next Power in Our Voices event as we explore how literacy impacts every part of our lives—from healthcare and employment to finances, technology, self-advocacy, and everyday life. Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
We are excited to welcome back Tina and Mateo Moreno, who presented at the 2025 LIFE Conference! Together, Tina and Mateo bring professional and lived experiences in literacy, AAC, communication, and assistive technology. Their combined experiences help demonstrate what is possible when people with disabilities have access to the right tools, instruction, opportunities, and expectations to learn. They will share Comprehensive Literacy for All, an approach for helping students with a wide range of disabilities develop critical literacy skills they can use inside and outside the classroom. Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
This event is for individuals with disabilities, family members, educators, legislators, professionals, advocates, and anyone who wants to learn more. Everyone has the right to learn how to read, including people who learn or communicate differently and people who use assistive technology.
📅 Wednesday, November 4, 2026
⏰ 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Delaware State Troopers Association
500 Messina Hill Road, Dover, DE Literacy Awareness Month POIV S…
🍽️ Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.
♿ Need an accommodation to participate? Please include your accommodation request when registering.
Register today:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YB956PM
Literacy is for everyone. Literacy is everywhere. Literacy is more than just books.

Image Description: Power in Our Voices event flyer promoting a November 4, 2026 literacy event in Dover. The flyer features diverse people with and without disabilities using books, tablets, and assistive technology and highlights literacy as more than reading and writing, including health, technology, finances, employment, and self-advocacy.

🎉 2027 LIFE Conference Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉
We are excited to continue recognizing the organizations supporting the 2027 LIFE Conference!
Today, we are highlighting our Copper and Bronze Level Sponsors:
🥉 Copper Level Sponsors:
👏 A-Team Delaware Inc.
👏 EPIC - Endless Possibilities In the Community
🏅 Bronze Level Sponsor:
👏 Nemours Children’s Health
We are grateful for their generous support and commitment to helping make the LIFE Conference a meaningful opportunity for people with disabilities, families, professionals, advocates, and community partners to come together, connect, learn, and take action.
👏 Thank you to each of these organizations for your partnership and investment in the 2027 LIFE Conference!
📅 January 27, 2027 | Bally’s Dover Conference Center
🎯 Theme: From Advocacy to Action
Registration is open! Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of the 2027 LIFE Conference.
🔗 Register: https://lifeconferencede.org/registration/
Is your organization or business interested in supporting the conference? Sponsorship opportunities are still available!
🔗 Sponsorship information: https://lifeconferencede.org/sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Stay tuned as we continue recognizing the organizations helping make the 2027 LIFE Conference possible!

🎉 Welcome to the Council, Kristina Krozak! 🎉
The Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council is excited to welcome Kristina Krozak as one of our newest Council members! Kristina was appointed by Governor Matt Meyer to serve as a Parent or Guardian of an Individual with Developmental Disabilities.
We are excited to have Kristina join the Council and bring her perspective and experience to our work as we continue to educate, advocate, and inform.
Please help us welcome Kristina and congratulate her on her appointment! 💙💚

🪑 A Seat at the Table: An Interactive Discussion

Your lived experience matters—and Delaware decision makers need to hear it!

Join us at the 2027 LIFE Conference for an interactive conversation with:

🔹 Young, JD, Cabinet Secretary, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS)
🔹 Senator Kyra Hoffner, Delaware’s 14th Senate District
🔹 Representative Michael Smith, representing Pike Creek Valley and parts of Hockessin and Newark
🔹 Andrew “Drew” Wilson, Deputy Secretary for Medicaid for the State of Delaware

Hear what these Delaware leaders are working on, ask questions, and share how laws and policies can affect the everyday lives, services, and independence of people with disabilities.

Ask questions. Listen. Learn. Share your lived experience.

📅 January 27, 2027
📍 Bally’s Dover Conference Center

🪑 There’s a seat at the table for you—reserve yours today!

🔗 Register: lifeconferencede.org

Image Description: Colorful LIFE Conference graphic inviting attendees to “pull up a chair” for the interactive “A Seat at the Table” session with policymakers on January 27, 2027, at Bally’s Dover Conference Center.

🎉 2027 LIFE Conference Platinum Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉
We are proud to recognize Delaware & Maryland's Eastern Shore as a Platinum Level Sponsor of the 2027 LIFE Conference!
We are grateful for their generous support and commitment to helping make the LIFE Conference a meaningful opportunity for people with disabilities, families, professionals, advocates, and community partners to come together, connect, learn, and take action.
👏 Thank you, Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore, for your continued partnership and investment in the 2027 LIFE Conference!
📅 January 27, 2027 | Bally’s Dover Conference Center
🎯 Theme: From Advocacy to Action
Registration is open! Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of the 2027 LIFE Conference.
🔗 Register: https://lifeconferencede.org/registration/
Is your organization or business interested in supporting the conference? Sponsorship opportunities are still available!
🔗 Sponsorship information: https://lifeconferencede.org/sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Stay tuned as we continue recognizing the organizations helping make the 2027 LIFE Conference possible!