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Events for people with disabilities (The Buffalo News)
Sun Nov 08 05:41:13 PST 2009
Headway of Western New York Life Support Group, for individuals with brain injury with mental health diagnosis and their families, will meet from 1 to 2:30 p. m. Monday at 976 Delaware Ave. For information, call 629-3636 or visit headway@headwayofwny.org •••
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'I survived so please let Baby RB live too' (Times Online)
Sat Nov 07 14:28:20 PST 2009
WHEN Vicky Rhodes was born suffering from the same condition as a baby at the centre of a right-to-life case, doctors told her parents she might become a “physical and mental vegetable”.
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People with differences get Halloween help (Mt. Olive Chronicle)
Sun Nov 08 15:39:54 PST 2009
MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – Jody was having a frightfully fun time and she said it was all thanks to the Budd Lake regional office of Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey.
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FYI Navarro County (Corsicana Daily Sun)
Sun Nov 08 17:03:26 PST 2009
Al-Anon — 8 p.m. Thursdays; 4 p.m. Sundays; 2412 N. Beaton St., Corsicana. Alcoholics Anonymous —11 a.m. Sundays; 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; Lakeside United Methodist Church annex building, 515 Farm-to-Market Road 416, Streetman (St. Elmo community).
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volunteers (Daily Local News)
Sun Nov 08 07:27:17 PST 2009
The United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania makes it possible and easy to give your time. Listed below are some opportunities and needs. Also, visit the Web site www.VolunteerWay.org.
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Disabled baseball players play with the pros (Orange County Register)
Sat Nov 07 16:23:51 PST 2009
Challenger Little Leaguers take the field at Angel Stadium.
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New name, same mission for North Shore Arc organization (Boston Globe)
Wed Nov 04 22:13:45 PST 2009
When the Association for Retarded Children was formed in 1955 by a group of parents seeking services for their children with developmental disabilities, it served 19 communities north of Boston.
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Illness and the justice system (Simcoe.com)
Thu Nov 05 02:49:28 PST 2009
When Barrie Police officers are making a mental health arrest, there can often be other charges issued at the same time. For minor charges like shoplifting, fraud, mischief, causing a disturbance or possession of stolen property, the Canadian Mental Health Association can help.
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Care for disabled criticized (The Daily News Tribune)
Thu Nov 05 00:04:06 PST 2009
Citing a history of discrimination, advocates met at a forum Wednesday to address problems those with disabilities face in receiving adequate medical care.
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A system ripe with corruption (Legislative Gazette)
Wed Nov 04 20:54:46 PST 2009
November 03, 2009 The current mental health care system is ripe with corruption, and there are multiple layers in place to protect it. This is a system that allows staggering numbers of abuse of disabled children and adults to continue.
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