September Online News, 2009 |
Relationships
Young Adult Self-Advocacy Conference
Keynote Speaker ~ Keith Jones
Save The Date ~ November 6, 2009
Registrations Will Be Out Soon!
The Generation Y-Not Committee is once again planning a great conference for young adults to be held in Concord on November 6th with keynote speaker, Keith Jones!
This conference is for young adults only (ages 18-35). Join us for a day of RELATIONSHIPS: sharing, learning and discussing:
~ Work/Volunteering/Community Involvement: Discuss relationships with co-workers, employers or community members and how you get along, network and advocate for yourself.
~ Love and Intimacy: Learn and express experiences and feelings related to family, romantic and non-romantic love, marriage, sex and intimacy
~ Relationships and Play: Learn and share how to make and keep friends, what you do in your free-time, what you do to get-together with people to share and care, and, how you connect with friends to share and involve yourselves in common interests.
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People First of New Hampshire Hosts Health Care In America Discussion
Where: Community Bridges, 70 Pembroke Road, Concord
Time: Starting at 10:00
Our usual board and membership meeting will start with a discussion about the current national topic concerning everyone: Health Care For America. Sarah Chaisson Warner of NH Citizens Alliance will be helping us understand what the issues are and what this means to us. Learn what issues you can speak-up about regarding health care. Space is limited so please RSVP at info@peoplefirstofnh.org
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Self-Advocacy In Merrimack County
 Our Goals GroupMembers enjoyed a nice dinner together last month in honor of Kathy Bates and Tracy Carter who have been the advisors for the Our Goals Group. The group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the evening in Concord. Members of the group are between the ages of 25 - 35.
L-R: Craig, Patti, Tracy, Kathy, Christine, Nate, Chet, Jen
Relationship Group
This is a young adult group in Merrimack County and members are between the ages of 15 - 25. The group meets the first Tuesday of each month in Concord.
L-R: Tracy, Amir, Tara, Nate, Beth
 Henniker Self-BuildersMember of the Henniker Self-Builders meet every first Wednesday in Henniker. This is a multi-aged group.
L-R: Trish, Rose, Pam, Shannon
 Capitol City Self-Advocacy Group
This group of older adults meets every second Wednesday of the month in Concord. Back: Robert, Gerry, Tony, Roberta. Front: Denis, Frank
People First of New Hampshire welcomes Skye Cummings as the new advisor for all four groups in Merrimack County. For information about any of these groups, please contact People
First of New Hampshire.
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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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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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