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Overview
Healthy Tomorrow is a program designed to promote "common cause" between persons with and without disabilities. It has its origins in the Consumer Professional Partnership Program (CPPP), a consumer-directed education program for health care professionals and students. Whereas the CPPP focused on creating dialog and understanding between persons with disabilities and health care providers in clinical settings, Healthy Tomorrow turned its attention to interactions in early childhood when concepts of injury prevention, ability, disability, and inclusion are formed.
The rationale underlying the effort was that young children, due to their short life experience, constitute a virtual tabula rasa. Understanding of how persons with disabilities live and feel might be readily absorbed by young children. Conversely, older audiences have already-formed habits of thought and action requiring an additional step of reevaluated and reformation in light of new learning.
The History of Healthy Tomorrow
The Consumer Professional Partnership Program, CPPP 2003-2006
Disability Educators go to Preschool 2007
Print and Video Storybooks 2009
The move to ePUB formats and wireless, handheld devices 2010-2011