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 Greetings!
Summer has arrived and so did the heat, graduations, and the end of school - a couple of days early! Hopefully you made plans for your summer vacation! I am gearing up for a week at the beach, but your email continue in my absence. Ms. Erin Thompson will help while I am gone as she learns formatting and electonic publishing. She is a sophmore at GMU, LIFE program and has a big dream! She would like to have her own magazine someday and this will be a great start to learn new skills.
This summer The Arc and self-advocates are launching the "I have a dream, I have a Life, I have a Name" campaign. Jill Egle, co-executive director, reports that this an important move in our efforts because after her year in a leadership role she sees our advocacy efforts as a civil movement rather than funding-issues, and that a person with a disability has the very same dreams as everyone else but without the right supports they cannot live "A Life LIke Yours".
We hope you saw our new card in the mail last week. I explains this new campaign and we hope you will make a doantion to help us in our efforts. If you did not recieve one, drop me an email with your address and I can have one mailed out. Please remember to give us your new address when you move. We have received many returned cards and want to make sure our data is up-to-date when we mail next time.
Lynn Ruiz & Erin Thompson
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LEAP Awards still available!
Making the LEAP to Adulthood
The Arc of Northern Virginia and The HSC Foundation, in partnership, are proud to announce the: 2008 Life Enrichment Awards Program (LEAP) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS The purpose of the Life Enrichment Awards Program (LEAP) is to enrich the lives of youth and young adults with disabilities and chronic illnesses and at-risk youth in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. LEAP provides goods and services that are directly linked to youth transition planning and implementation that are usually not available from public service and government agencies. They are not covered by Medicaid or private insurance and are goods and services not considered "medically necessary." As a life enrichment program, LEAP does not fund "life necessity" goods and services. For example, the program does not generally fund food, clothing (except business clothes needed for school or job interviews), medicine, direct medical service, or housing. Legal residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area, up to Baltimore, MD and down to Richmond, VA will be eligible to receive program awards. Eligibility To be eligible for this program, the awardee must be between the ages of 14 and 25 with one of the following: Intellectual Disability Hearing impairments (including deafness) Speech or language impairments Visual impairments (including blindness) Serious emotional disturbance Orthopedic impairments Autism Traumatic brain injury Other health-experiencing developmental delays, as measured by appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive development; and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and/or health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally, or Demonstration of at-risk behavior. Additionally, the awardee must be actively engaged in a transition process and their requested good or service must be directly linked to transition planning and implementation, such as youth development services, tools for transition, and support services. Please contact Jill Egle', Co-Executive Director The Arc of Northern Virginia www.thearcofnova.org 98 N. Washington Street Falls Church, VA 22046 Jegle@thearcofnova.org |
SOMETHING for EVERYONE
Websites That Have Caught my Attention This Week
http://www.hope-house.org/We are people with developmental disabilities, who want nothing more than to control our own destinies and live in our own communities. . . . http://www.hcbs.org/Infrastructure development resources for people with disabilities and older adults. A clearinghouse for the Community Living Collaborative. |
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July 4th
Happy 4th of July
July 10-11
SSI/SSDI Workshop
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Article Headline
Article Subheading
 Bender Consulting Services is a technology-based consulting firm, specializing in creating employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities, in the information technology, engineering, finance/accounting, and various other competitive employment areas. We need qualified individuals with disabilities immediately for job openings in the Roanoke, VA area. Advisors and those interested should submit resumes to resume@benderconsult.com (Resumes are also accepted via fax at 412-787-7178). I again wanted to note that these positions are for individuals with disabilities. Judy Kopay Human Resources Recruiter Bender Consulting Services, Inc. Phone: (412) 446-4453 www.benderconsult.com |
Our Work is Not Done!
Please check out the latest on our website regarding the Proposed Special Ed Regs. http://www.thearcofnova.org/spec_ed_regs/
Forward this, print it and display it and post it everywhere you can!
We are still working on the last input and will be calling on you to act again before the end of the month.
Remember, please contact your legislators. Many have mentioned that they knocked on your door prior to elections. Be sure to call on them and request that they speak up!
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You are invited to Join
Judi, Erin and Ryan Garth
along with family and friends
as we celebrate the life of
Rusty Garth
Saturday June 21, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Arlington Unitarian Universalist Church
In the Sanctuary
Feel free to bring something to share with the community,
a memory, some cookies, something to drink...
4444 Arlington Blvd,
Arlington, Virginia 22204
Enter parking on George Mason
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| Three Generations of Imbeciles
by Rick Hodges 
June 27 & 28
Actors with real disabilities will portray characters caught up in the eugenics movement in Virginia, when hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities were sterilized against their will, in the Barcroft Player's production of Three Generations of Imbeciles on June 27 and 28, at 7:30 pm at the Barcroft Community House, 800 South Buchanan Street in Arlington (wheelchair accessible). Tickets are 8$ at the door, no advance tickets sold. The play is not suitable for children under 12.
For more information click here or email Rick Hodges at threegenplay@verizon.net.
NO advance tickets, only 80 seats in this theatre.
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NOTICE: Public Comment Welcomed
Virginia's Community Integration Strategic Plan
Virginia's Comprehensive Cross-Governmental Strategic Plan to Assure Continued Community Integration of Virginians with Disabilities at http://www.olmsteadva.com has been updated and will be submitted to Governor Kaine by August 31, 2008 pursuant to Executive Directive 6 (2007).
The updated Plan was developed by the Community Integration Implementation Team (including over 20 state agencies in four Secretariats; two statewide councils; and representatives of local government and local agencies) working in close collaboration with Virginia's cross-disability stakeholder Community Integration Advisory Commission. The Plan sets out specific goals, strategies and implementation actions designed to create additional community integration opportunities for all individuals with disabilities.
The Community Integration Advisory Commission invites you to comment on this Plan by: Submitting written public comment from June 16 ~ July 18, 2008 via:
Email to: olmstead.public.comment@governor.virginia.gov
Fax to: 804-786-3389
Letter to: Office of Community Integration
1111 East Broad Street, 4th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Presenting oral public comment from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at the Virginia Housing Center, 4224 Cox Road, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060. Comments will be limited to 5 minutes each.
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Intellectual Disability Committee Meeting
Fairfax County Government Center
July 10,
7 to 9pm.
Room 232 at the
12000 Government Center Parkway
Fairfax, Virginia 22035
This would be a great meeting for all families who are interested in funding for their child after high school and in the future to attend.
The Arlington Disability Advisory Commission
The Arlington Disability Advisory Commission is seeking applicants to interview for several vacant positions. The Arlington Disability Advisory Commission is a 13 member, County Board appointed advisory group comprised of individuals who live and/or work in Arlington, and who are interested in and knowledgeable about issues involving people with physical and sensory disabilities. People with disabilities, community leaders, and business people are urged to apply. Individuals interested in serving on the Commission or any of its committees should contact the Disability Advisory Commission staff at 703-228-7096 or via e-mail at amaynard@arlingtonva.us for more information or to request a copy of the Commission's Application Form. The form may also be found on the Arlington County Web site under "Advisory Groups."
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| Inside/OutArticle
voices from the disability community
VSA arts has commissioned Ping Chong & Company to create Inside/Out - Voices from the disability community, a world premiere theatrical production by Ping Chong and Sara Michelle Zatz. This oral history production explores first-hand experiences of the disability community through personal narratives. Their histories are interwoven into a script that is performed by the participants themselves, giving voice to individuals whose stories frequently go unheard. Click here to go to audio clips from the cast.
This production will premiere at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
June 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm
June 28, 2008 at 7:30 pm
June 29, 2008 at 2:00 pm
To purchase tickets, visit www.kennedy-center.org/tickets.
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 The Arc of Northern Virginia is known as the leader in providing effective advocacy and indispensable direct services for families, children and adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities to enable full, welcoming community participation. Celebrating its 45th year, The Arc of Northern Virginia serves people with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities and their families in Northern Virginia by providing services to individuals and families with supports for independent living such as: Personal Support Trusts, Developmental Disability Medicaid Waiver support coordination, Developmental Disability Medicaid Waiver Service facilitation, Guardianship program, Information & Referral, Education & Training, & Individual and Systems Support Advocacy. If you have received this email from a friend, please feel free to go to our website and add your own email address to our "Sign up for our e-Newsletter" box. You will receive the latest news about disability in Northern Virginia directly in your mailbox! Sincerely,
Lynn Ruiz & Erin Thompson  Designation #14617 Lynn Ruiz The Arc of Northern Virginia |
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