Allies are essential to any social justice movement, including the Disability Rights Movement. How can you become a Disability Ally? The Disability community has moved…
Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how people’s overlapping identities contribute to their experiences with privilege and oppression. Presenters will define ableism, racism, sexism classism…
Paving the Way to Self Determination is a program developed to support children with developmental disabilities (ages birth – 12) and their families raise expectations…
Information recently released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that across all age groups, people with disabilities are much less likely to be employed…
At Disability Network Southwest Michigan, we are taking community partnering to a new level. We have always networked with other agencies throughout Southwest Michigan and…
Code of the Freaks is a documentary film examining the representation of disabled people in Hollywood movies. The film investigates the power of movie imagery…
All Our Families by Jennifer Natalya Fink Thursday, December 1512:00 – 1:30 PM Weaving together stories of members of her own family with sociohistorical…
Join us for this webinar to learn the difference between Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals. There is a lot of confusion about what qualifies…
It is said that voting is the cornerstone of American democracy. It’s each citizen’s right to have their say in how, and by whom, their…
The Theory of Everything is the story of the most celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and the arts student he fell in love…