CAD Committee on Advocacy & Policy Report

  Visual Description: a female in black shirt, black glasses, and hair pulled back. In the background is a map of Beijing, China. Transcript: Hello, my name is Marla Hatrak. I am co-chair of CAD’s Advocacy & Policy Committee. Today, I will give an update on our activities from 2018. First in January 2018, we…

CAD PRESIDENT REPORT 2016: YEAR IN REVIEW

February 2017 Dear Deaf Californians, Can you believe how 2016 had gone by so quickly? CAD Board officers have been extremely busy with an amazing list of accomplishments and work in progress. Their work is powerful and impactful, causing ripples of systematic changes and paradigm shifts throughout the state and the nation. Our work is…

CAD President’s Letter

There is Unity in This Beautiful Word, “AND” Nyle DiMarco’s recent victories with America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With the Stars ignited an important dialogue about the importance of Deaf schools, language acquisition with ASL and English, and the legislative movement with LEAD-K. A Deaf blogger, Mark Drolsbaugh, calls this phenomenon, “The Nyle DiMarco…

Organization By-Laws

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF, Inc. (A Non-Profit Corporation) ORGANIZATION BY-LAWS ADOPTED AS REVISED: 8/13/2011 ARTICLE I NAME Section 1.1 NAME The name of the Association shall be the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF, INC. (CAD) hereby shall be known as the “Association”. Section 1.2 STATUS The Association shall be a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, incorporated…