July & August Online News, 2009 |
Market Days in Concord ~ July 16, 17, 18
Members of People First of New Hampshire enjoyed handing-out information about our organization during Market Days. It was a fun way to spend a few days as we are proud to share who we are and what we are about. We thank Community Bridges for sharing tent and table space for us to set-up and be together. To make the event even more active, we participated in weaving with FreedomWeavers where an inclusion banner was woven by those who stopped by.
Photos: (Top Left) Richard Johnson, Denis Greenwood, Diane Carignan, Chrystal Johnson, Roberta Gallant, Linda Perkins, Doug Brooks; (Top Middle) Roberta Gallant, Tracey Lonergan; (Top Right) Janet Hunt, Roberta Gallant
(Bottom Left) Jillian Libby, Nanette Desrochers; (Bottom Right) Denis Greenwood
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Young Adult Self-Advocacy Conference
Save The Date ~ November 6, 2009
The Generation Y-Not Committee is once again planning a great conference for young adults to be held in Concord on November 6th.
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~ We Continue Our Dedication To Our #1 Goal ~
Our challenge continues. In this online issue, we share a video from our evening vigil and a short piece from our rally at the statehouse both held in June.
We wish to encourage everyone to join us in our efforts. Here are ways that you can learn and help:
Our film project involving the stories of former residents of Laconia State School is progressing nicely. More details will be available soon.
We continue to collect the action events and rallies held over the past two months from other states and countries and once a DVD is produced we will let you know so that you can access your own copy for sharing with policy-makers to help in the cause to close institutions in your location. |
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The Peterborough People First Young Adult
Self-Advocacy Group
Financial Support Needed
The Peterborough People First Group will soon be losing funding by the end of September, 2009. If you can help keep this group remain active, please contact People First of New Hampshire today.
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Who We Are And What We Are About
People First of New Hampshire is a statewide non-profit directed by citizens who experience disability for the purpose of self-advocacy.
What is self-advocacy?
Self-Advocacy is a way in which people speak-up, voice their opinion, and take responsibility toward being equal within society. Self-advocacy is a movement for people who experience disability. In many places across the world, there are organizations called "People First" for the self-advocacy movement. The title "People First" means that labels for people are not respectful, and, that everybody should be considered PEOPLE with ability first. People First of New Hampshire started in 1992 and has 17 chapters and groups across the state. |
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Get caught-up! Read our earlier newsletters online!
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Ways To Financially Support People First of NH
There are a couple of ways in which you can support our work. You can visit our website and find our donate button at the top of the page, or, you can visit our cause on Facebook and join our challenge to raise funds for our goals. You can always send us a check to our mailing address below.
Click-on these links:
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This is what our friends from across the planet are saying about our March issue!
- "Wonderful issue! Just plain terrific." John Agosta Ph.D., Human Services Research Institute, Portland Oregon
- "Keep up the good work." Ricky Broussard, Self-Advocate, Texas
"Wonderful....all of it! From coast to coast wishing People First well!" Robin Keehn, Area 2 DD Board, Chico California
- "Thanks you so much for sending me this! You guys did a great job editing [video of The Subject Of Relationships] into a little 4-minute clip! Thanks so much for the opportunity" Angela Amado, Ph. D., Executive Director of the Human Service Research and Development Center and also a Research Associate, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Minnesota
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