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Envisioning a society where people w/ disabilities have equality of opportunity & participate fully in community life by exercising choice & self-determination.

Helena, MT
Joined September 2009
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employees working in this classroom would allegedly throw objects at the students, yell at them, and call them names. One of the suspects is also alleged to have struck a student in the face, as well as sprayed that same student with a water bottle as a form of discipline
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Check out our latest podcast episode: Medicaid - How do we balance being responsible with money and our responsibility to each other? youtu.be/wMup2XYvSZA?si=SNNw… via @YouTube
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Focus group meeting tonight on actualizing the Lois and Elaine Decision. Who are Lois and Elain? Well they are not Tommy Olmstead.
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Census Bureau to Livestream Meeting With Stakeholders on Disability Data Needs census.gov/newsroom/census-l…
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Another day, another election. Is it always election season? Some news coverage of the candidate survey @Drightsmt has released this week: ktvh.com/news/montana-survey…
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Over 70 candidates from both major political parties responded to our survey. Will their answers surprise you? The only way to find out is to check it out: disabilityrightsmt.org/candi…
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"Admitting you can’t drive as an adult in America is opening the door for people to treat you as though you are 'less-than' or even a burden on those that can drive..." Read more about Anna's experience: disabilityrightsmt.org/a-wee…
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Day one of the @Paralympics Games. Watch select live events and replays youtube.com/@Paralympics
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Excellent perspective on rural non-drivers. I often think and wish rural areas would incorporate school bus riders with general public transit riders. Rural areas often boast of their close community ties, this may be a way to actualize that rhetoric.
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Community First Choice Advisory Council Meeting, 8/29/2024, 1:00pm-4:00pm Mountain Time, Teams meeting link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup… CFC program provides in-home assistance for individuals with disabilities and older adults and stresses the importance of consumer-control,
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self-determination, and independent living through allowing individuals to direct their own care as much as possible. CFC services are critically important for many individuals with disabilities and older adults to live in their own homes and participate in their communities.
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recent statistical look at party affiliation shows that 27% of people in the U.S. identify with the Republican Party and 27% with the Democratic Party, while 43% identify as independent.
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But that’s a big “IF.”
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Read the full op ed by our Executive Director David Carlson: helenair.com/opinion/column/…
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