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- A Night for Networking: Connecting Business & Talent
- Save the date: October 21, 2010 | 6-9p | Center for Health & Healing Atrium | OHSU South Waterfront
- MHAO Awarded Three Year Grant for Statewide Expansion of the Oregon Peer Employment Network
- Portland, Oregon–Mental Health America of Oregon (MHAO) has been awarded a $210,000 grant (over a three year period) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for the OPEN Project (Oregon Peer Employment Network).
- DRO Advocate Encourages Rogue Valley's Deaf Community to Self-Advocate for New Technology
- DRO advocate Rosemary DiSiervi's outreach efforts across the state this summer about video remote interpreting (VRI) services continue to bear fruit.
Written by Disability Rights Oregon Executive Director Bob Joondeph and special guest bloggers, The DRO Blog incorporates thoughtful (and sometimes humorous) analysis, trend-spotting, policy updates and more.
- Three Priorities for Human Services
- I was on vacation, but the state's budget woes were not. In considering cuts, the state should 1. Protect the most vulnerable, 2. Get people out of institutions, and 3. Keep people out of institutions and other segregated settings.
- House Committee Hears Testimony on State Hospital
- Oregon State Hospital is still a mess despite five DRO lawsuits since 1992 trying to fix it. With massive budget cuts on the way, advocates tell the legislature what should be done to change things.
- Voting: How Sweet It Is
- Vote on May 18 and taste the freedom.
Disability News Now combines unedited items from media outlets across the world into one, easy-to-use resource. Who knew that keeping up with the latest disability-related news could be so easy?
- Parents of Special-Education Students Air Frustrations | Willamette Week
- In response to significant reductions in Portland Public Schools’ special-education department, concerned parents met with school-district administrators downtown last night for a two-hour, kvetching-and-answer session.
- Oregon Insurers Double Profits From Last Year | The Lund Report
- Shedding members, padding surplus and increasing profits continued
- Regal, AMC, Showcase to add technology for sight and hearing impaired - Plymouth, MA - Wicked Local Plymouth
- As the nation celebrates the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), hearing and visually impaired residents of Massachusetts will gain greater accessibility to movie theaters through a settlement reached between Attorney General Martha Coakley and the three largest movie theater chains in the commonwealth.
- Wyden Pushing For Oregon Waiver From Health Care Law, Individual Mandate | huffingtonpost.com
- One of the most innovative voices in the health care debate, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is accelerating the process of exempting his state from some of the national reforms passed under President Barack Obama.
- Meeting on UN disability treaty to focus on impact of conflicts and disasters
- “Incidence of disability increases during conflicts and disasters. Conversely, disability increases vulnerability to emergency situations,” said Akiko Ito, Chief of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and UN Focal Point on Disability, in advance of the event. “Persons with disabilities tend to face added disadvantages and difficulties in having their needs met during the time of crisis when faced with a shortage of resources,” she added.
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