Prizes Awarded to Essay Winners Following Legislative Luncheon ach year, MPAS sponsors a Disability Advocacy Essay Contest. Writers are asked to compose real, motivating stories about people with disabilities who have successfully advocated for themselves or others and achieved success. Priz- es are awarded to second, and third-place winners during the annual Board of Directors meeting at the Capitol. The MPAS of Directors conducted their quarterly meeting in the Speakers Library following the Legislative Luncheon. Prior to discussing agency business, Scott Spicer read his winning essay that told of how MPAS helped him in his struggle to win a discrimination charge against a former employer. His essay won second place in the contest and netted Scott a $200 award. First-place essay winner Florida Harris and third-place winner Deanna Fooce were unable to attend the meeting and read their essays; however, they each received awards of $300 and $100 respectively. MPAS Website is Getting a Redesign! our final goal. rogress continues in modernizing the agency We have completed the website. The goal is to create an attractive, information architecture which means we have created a plan and a accessible, user-friendly website which will provide structure for the information that our new website valuable content to our clients and online visitors will contain. This includes planning for the menu interested in disability topics. system, page layouts, and content. The home page Much time and care was taken to determine is also complete, and we’re in the process of trans- how we could best serve our clients through a new- ferring and creating content. ly designed website. A developer has been Although the countdown to launch has not yet chosen, the contract signed, and the kickoff been determined, the website address will meeting has place. We even have a remainor look for progress updates in the MPAS timeline to keep us on the ball and focused on newsletter, and on our Facebook page. Ex- change, 16 MPAS 2012 Annual Report
Prizes Awarded to Essay Winners Following Legislative Luncheon ach year, MPAS sponsors a Disability Advocacy Essay Contest. Writers are asked to compose real, motivating stories about people with disabilities who have successfully advocated for themselves or others and achieved success. Priz- es are awarded to second, and third-place winners during the annual Board of Directors meeting at the Capitol. The MPAS of Directors conducted their quarterly meeting in the Speakers Library following the Legislative Luncheon. Prior to discussing agency business, Scott Spicer read his winning essay that told of how MPAS helped him in his struggle to win a discrimination charge against a former employer. His essay won second place in the contest and netted Scott a $200 award. First-place essay winner Florida Harris and third-place winner Deanna Fooce were unable to attend the meeting and read their essays; however, they each received awards of $300 and $100 respectively. MPAS Website is Getting a Redesign! rogress continues in modernizing the agency website. The goal is to create an attractive, accessible, user-friendly website which will provide valuable content to our clients and online visitors interested in disability topics. Much time and care was taken to determine how we could best serve our clients through a new- ly designed website. A developer has been chosen, the contract signed, and the kickoff meeting has place. We even have a timeline to keep us on the ball and focused on our final goal. We have completed the information architecture which means we have created a plan and a structure for the information that our new website will contain. This includes planning for the menu system, page layouts, and content. The home page is also complete, and we’re in the process of trans- ferring and creating content. Although the countdown to launch has not yet been determined, the website address will remainor look for progress updates in the MPAS newsletter, Ex- change, and on our Facebook page. 16 MPAS 2012 Annual Report
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