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March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month

March 17, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. We sat down with two of our NAB members, to learn about the hurdles individuals with developmental disabilities (IDD) and their parents are still facing and how they navigate education, supports and services.

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, News Tagged With: Baby Boomers, Berthy de la Rosa Aponte, Brill COnsulting, family caegivers, IDD, Individuals with developmental Disabilites, Intellectual disabilites, Jimmo Settlement Agreement, Kathy Brill, ODEA, Students with disabilites

Life is Precious, Practice Wellness

September 26, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

September is National Recovery Month – an opportunity to increase awareness and understanding of mental health conditions and substance use disorders and celebrate the people in recovery. This year the “Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Are Stronger.” We sat down with Andrea Cook, Program Manager/Advocacy Director at Northern California Mental Health America to learn how we can support our families, friends and communities who are dealing with mental health conditions and living in recovery; as well as become more aware of  our own mental health and wellness.

Filed Under: Blog, Issue Spotlight, Mental Health, News Tagged With: Mental Health, Mental Health America NorCal, National Recovery MOnth

9/11 – Eighteen Years Later

September 11, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

18 years after the events of 9/11 a new generation enters adulthood where those events were history rather than experience. What do we pass on to them as we consider the events of that day in September?

Filed Under: Blog, Events, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2001, 9/11, 9/11 attacks, September 11

Recognizing World Duchenne Awareness Day and How PPMD is Paving New Policy Pathways

September 7, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

With the growing recognition of World Duchenne Awareness Day on September 7, Congress returning to work after summer recess, our kids heading back to school and the need to reach out to teachers and administrators about Duchenne, September is the perfect month to take action to raise awareness and crucial funds to support our fight to End Duchenne.

Filed Under: Blog, Disability Issues, News Tagged With: Duchenne, Muscular Dystrophy, Parent Project muscular Dystrophy, PPMD, World Duchenne Awareness Day

Is the ADA Ready for Caregivers?

July 30, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

The ADA is forward thinking but when it was signed we may not have anticipated how many aging Americans would need its protections. As Disability and aging become mainstream, our views on these issues have evolved and as a result we are more concerned about issues of caregiving.

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Blog, Caregivers, Disability Issues, News Tagged With: ADA, aging, Aging in Place, Americans over 60, Baby Boomers, Caregivers, family caegivers

Technology: Undone Work of the ADA?

July 29, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

The use of smartphones, wearables, and advancements in digital entertainment and gaming are making current generations wonder why digital access was not made more explicit in the original ADA text. The ADA is certainly a bastion for protections tied to access, but as technology develops and becomes a larger part of our day to day lives, have the protections in the ADA also expanded?

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, Disability Issues, News, Technology Tagged With: Americans with Disabilites Act of 1990, Inclusion Drives Innovation, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508, Truncated Domes, TTY

ADA 29: Should We Celebrate?

July 25, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

In 2019, The Americans with Disabilities Act Turns 29. As it teeters on the precipice of a new decade, it made us think about how the ADA will continue to develop civil rights policy of tomorrow. As we move toward the ADA Anniversary join us as we review some ideas about the ADA’s past and hopes for the future.

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, Disability Issues, News Tagged With: ADA, ADA Celebration, Americans with Disabilites Act of 1990, July 26

The ADA is Looking at 30

July 22, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

In 2019, The Americans with Disabilities Act Turns 29. As it teeters on the precipice of a new decade, it made us think about how the ADA will continue to develop civil rights policy of tomorrow. As we move toward the ADA Anniversary join us as we review some ideas about the ADA’s past and hopes for the future. 

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, News Tagged With: ADA, ADA2019, ADA29, aging, Looking at 30

Olmstead 2019: Twenty Years of Olmstead Integration Advocacy for People with Disabilities

June 21, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Can it really have been 20 years ago that the Supreme Court made clear, in Olmstead v. L.C., that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits states and localities from unnecessarily segregating people with disabilities in order to provide them disability-related services? Eve Hill offers her commentary and expertise on this still important issue!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, Caregivers, Court Cases, Disability Issues, Issue Spotlight, News Tagged With: Community integration, Community Living, disability related serices, Eve Hill, Home and Community Based Services, Olmstead decision

May is Older Americans Month

May 30, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Each year in May we pause to acknowledge Older Americans‘influence on our society as well as consider how to maintain a society in which the presence and engagement of older Americans is respected and valued. This year the theme for Older Americans Month is Connect, Create and Contribute. We are encouraged to:

Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: AARP, Administration on Community Living, Charles Christiansen, n4a, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, National Hispanic Council on Aging, NHOA, Older Americans Month, Sandy Markwood

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