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Employment for All: Cultivating Opportunities for People with Disabilities

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Jumpstarting Results For quite some time, I, like many of you, have been searching for ways to improve supported employment outcomes for people with disabilities. While some states lead the way with higher job placements, more hours, and better financial rewards for supported employees, others struggle with what was once a fertile field of opportunities […]

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Adding Voice to Advocacy

21st Century Rehabiliation Solutions, Community, Self-Determination /

Advocacy is a Latin term made up of two words “Ad” and “Voca” which means “amplify” and “Voice” thus advocacy is the process of amplifying the voices of the voiceless. “Advocacy” is often defined by agencies and individuals as a “Systematic and serious process of amplifying the voices of the voiceless”. ~ The World Blind Union Cavepeople

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Wait! What Happened to Our Community?

4 Comments / A Home of My Own, Self-Determination, The Pursuit of the American Dream /

Creating Community in the Time of Social Distancing.   Mikelle looks longing out our second-story window reminiscing about the days when her routine included a trip down the street to the neighborhood coffee shop. There she gets her people and caffeine fix. This is her well-loved routine. Pablos in the morning, perhaps, a Starbucks in

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Holiday Harmony

A Home of My Own, Community, Daily Life, Decisions, Friends, Healthy Living, Self-Determination, Storytelling, The Pursuit of the American Dream /

Many of you, who came of age in the 1970s like me, remember being inspired by a television commercial. It was a Coca Cola commercial, where a lighted candle appears on the screen, and we see a young, beautiful woman singing, “I’d Like the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony,” the camera pans out. We

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Your Are Invited! 2015 Families at the Forefront of Technology

21st Century Rehabiliation Solutions, A Home of My Own /

Will we see you at the Viceroy Hotel? We hope so! Mikelle and I are thrilled to be one of the founding Families at the Forefront of Technology. This last October, #FFTCON held our first conference. It has been a incredible adventure, one that is having an impact on our native state of Colorado and

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