MODERATOR: These are tough fiscal times for addressing gaps in TBI services. Reductions in services and supports for people with disabilities are being made everywhere. But when people with traumatic brain injuries are already behind in the level of services …
MODERATOR: A recent Galaxy post documented a milestone for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 100 countries have now ratified the treaty. But what does this mean?
Another Galaxy post reports new measures in …
If most Americans are upset with a 9.1% unemployment rate, think how Americans with disabilities must feel. A recent Galaxy post notes that the Department of Labor puts their unemployment rate at 14.5%. But that number grossly underestimates the extent of the problem because it only counts folks actively seeking employment not those who have given up hope of finding a job.
Self advocacy groups are becoming more and more sophisticated in the ways they use social networking techniques. In this forum, the focus will be on how people with disabilities are influencing public policy making – how the motto “nothing about us without us” is being put into practice.
MODERATOR: The extent of the problems voters and would be voters with disabilities face trying to exercise their right to vote is brought home in a well written Huffington Post article entitled “Democracy Disabled: Discrimination at the Polls” by Shantha Rau Barriga. The article …
MODERATOR: One only has to put the word “Olmstead” in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page to get a sense of the degree of activity related to deinstitutionalization taking place around the United States. The …
MODERATOR: For years the most popular agenda item at our mental health advisory council meetings has been one called “open forum”. It is that time in the meeting members can bring up any subject they want. We try to keep …
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