Selfadvocatenet.com recipe for the month May 2017 Watch Print Prep 45 m /Cook 8 m /Ready In 53 m Recipe By:KATRINP “I had this at a party and couldn’t get it off my mind. It’s a fruity Asian chicken salad that even my family’s picky eaters enjoy. I bake my own chicken for more flavor, […]
TransLink is implementing the first of a series of recommendations to improve its custom transit service, HandyDART, by extending the booking window by four hours. Beginning Monday, May 1, the cut-off for customers to request a next-day HandyDART trip extends from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Our customers have been asking for increased flexibility in […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocates is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. May 2017 Edition KSA Newsletter 2017 contains in This month’s theme Big Daddy Tazz: Breaking Down Mental Health Stigma, One Laugh at a Time Interviewed by Krystian Shaw Big Daddy Tazz is a great mental health awareness raising comedian, […]
Posted on April 28, 2017 by DABC Dear Community Partner, Effective April 1, 2017 the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation (MSDSI) has introduced a $100 monthly Alternative Hearing Assistance supplement. The supplement was implemented following a human rights complaint supported by lawyers at the BC Public Interest and Advocacy Centre (BC PIAC). The […]
The last several days have been exciting, challenging and frightening. I don’t know why but I decided, when invited to speak in Minneapolis and Rothschild, that I would do three new lectures, one of the them a full day one. I had grown comfortable with the day long lectures that I do, I was perfectly […]
Every now and then I am reminded, with a shock, that the world isn’t what it used to be for many people with intellectual disabilities. Over the last few days I’ve been reading posts from or chatting with some people with disabilities that I met a long time ago. These are all people who I […]
It’s a weird thing to be thankful for, but I was, deeply. We are in a small city in the middle of Wisconsin where we arrived after a several hour drive from Minneapolis. When we checked in, I had to set up to do a webinar for Vita and for The National Alliance of Direct […]
When my power wheelchair last broke down, which it has again, I was visited by an assessor kind of person who has to sign off on my need for a new wheelchair. Foolishly, when my chair was repaired, I rescinded the request and now will have to go through it again and, of course, pay […]
I followed them into the store, they, to a one, briefly looked back and saw me. Most dismissed me right away only a couple let their eyes linger and their giggles bubble forth. There were about eight of them. Boys and girls, all in their very early teens and all out for an afternoon in […]
To The Handsome Young Man at the Movie Theatre, I know what you saw. Of course I do. I have lived in my body and ‘the community’ for a very long time. I have seen myself reflected in the glass of the mirror and reflected in the eyes of those, like you, repulsed by me. […]
