A document written by the Office of Disability Employment Policy is a brief overview of where the disability rights movement started its roots. It points out that disability related to civil [...]
KLN Family Brands, the City of Perham, MN, and Productive Alternatives Inc. are working on a partnership to help people facing barriers to employment and help them to live independently. The [...]
Ten years ago… I turned my face for a moment and it became my life. We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed that our imagination may not fit well with the life we have [...]
Webster’s Dictionary defines “accountability” as “the quality or state of being accountable; an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions.” Notice the adjectives [...]
It’s a story we’re all too familiar with. Whether the experience is first-hand or it happened to a friend of a friend, the message is loud and clear: “People with disabilities can’t work.” Folks [...]
“If you have not set up the target it cannot be hit by an arrow.” This is to say that each time you retaliate with words and actions that hurt, you are strengthening the habit of anger. Then, [...]
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. (Viktor Frankl) In-between stimulus and [...]
“People are drinking at a level that’s putting themselves and others at risk of harm, even if they’re not necessarily meeting criteria for alcohol dependence or for the disease of [...]
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life [...]
Inclusion is about ALL of us Inclusion is about living full lives – about learning to live together. Inclusion makes the world our classroom for a full life. Inclusion treasures diversity and [...]
