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New
Hampshire Must
Improve Care
for Mentally
Ill After Suit
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Attorney
General Joseph
Foster
announced that
New
Hampshire must
expand
services for
people who are
severely
mentally ill
in order to
settle a
lawsuit that
charged the
state
needlessly
confined
people in
mental wards
or hospitals
because it
lacked
community
treatment
options.
Photo: New
Hampshire
Attorney
General Joseph
Foster.
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Olmstead
Enfrocement:
DOJ Findings
Letter
Concludes
Rhode Island
is Violating
Title II of
the ADA
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The Department
of Justice
(DOJ) issued a
statewide
Findings
Letter in
January 2014
concluding
that the State
of Rhode
Island is
violating
Title II of
the ADA by
unjustifiably
and
unnecessarily
segregating
persons with
intellectual
or
developmental
disabilities
(I/DD) in its
day activity
service
system, which
includes
sheltered
workshops and
facility-based
day programs,
instead of
providing such
persons the
opportunity to
receive
integrated
supported
employment and
integrated day
services that
would enable
them to
interact with
non-disabled
individuals to
the fullest
extent
possible.
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Disabled
Seymour
Connecticut
Resident
Fighting for
ADA Compliance
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To push the
town of
Seymour,
Connecticut
into
compliance
with the
Americans with
Disabilities
Act (ADA),
disabled
resident
Joseph A.
Luciano, 75,
filed a case
with the
Commission on
Human Rights
and
Opportunities.
"I'm
really
disappointed
in this town,
and I'm not
the only one"
who is
affected by
obstructed
sidewalks and
curb cuts
after a
snowfall, he
said.
Photo: Joseph
A. Luciano..
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Boston
Earned Income
Tax Credit
Coalition -
Free Tax
Preparation
and Asset
Building
Services for
People with
Disabilities
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Boston
residents with
disabilities
are encouraged
to learn about
the Earned
Income Tax
Credit and get
your taxes
prepared for
FREE at a
neighborhood
tax
preparation
site. Don't
waste part of
your refund
paying to get
your taxes
prepared. Save
money and
learn
strategies
that will help
you to save
for a more
secure future.
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Third
Annual Real
Abilities
Boston
Disabilities
Film Festival
- January 30 -
February 6,
2014
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 ReelAbilities:
Disabilities
Film Festival
is the largest
festival in
the country
dedicated to
promoting
awareness and
appreciation
of the lives,
stories and
artistic
expressions of
people with
different
disabilities.
The festival
presents award
winning films
by and about
people with
disabilities
in multiple
locations
throughout
each hosting
city.
Post-screening
discussions
and other
engaging
programs bring
together the
community to
explore,
discuss,
embrace, and
celebrate the
diversity of
our shared
human
experience.
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View
The Genius of
Marian and
Meet Director
Banker White
at Boston's
Museum of Fine
Arts
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The Genius of
Marian follows
Pam White in
the early
stages of
Alzheimer's as
her son, the
filmmaker,
documents her
struggle to
hang on to a
sense of self.
This
moving
personal
narrative
explores the
heartbreak of
Alzheimer's
disease, the
power of art,
and the
meaning of
family. "It's
remarkable
film, not only
for the
obvious
affection with
which it was
made, but as
art"
A
discussion
with director
Banker White
follows the
screening
which will
begin promptly
at 7:30 PM at
Boston's
Museum of Fine
Arts (MFA).
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WANTED!
Youth with
Disabilities
for Advisory
Board
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We want to
help young
people know
about their
rights under
the Americans
with
Disabilities
Act (ADA) as
they apply to
college or to
their first
job!
WHO:
Youth
with
disabilities
(16-25)
WHY:
Advise us on
how we
communicate
with youth
with
disabilities
WHERE:
Institute for
Human Centered
Design 200
Portland St.
Boston MA
WHEN:
March
22, 2014 @
12:30PM -
3:30PM
REGISTER:
https://www.regonline.com/NEYAB
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January
22nd IHCD
Lunch and
Learn:
"Designing the
Air We
Breathe:
Environmental
Illness and
Universal
Design"
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Join us to
hear Aurora
Levins Morales
speak about
"Designing the
Air We
Breathe:
Environmental
Illness and
Universal
Design"
Universal
design for the
environmentally
ill requires
us to go far
beyond green
building, to
rethink the
definitions
and boundaries
of
sustainability
and access,
and vastly
expand the
scope of our
designing to
include the
way we do
business and
the air we
breathe.
WHERE:
Institute for
Human Centered
Design (IHCD),
200 Portland
St. Boston MA
02114
WHEN:
January 22nd,
12:00 PM
This
event is free
and open to
the
public. A
light lunch
will be
served. Please
refrain from
wearing or
using scented
products,
including
laundry
products and
detergents on
that
day.
Photo:
Aurora Levins
Morales.
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FCC
Requests
Comments on
Closed
Captioning of
Video Clips
|
The Federal
Communications
Commission
(FCC) is
seeking
comments on
the current
state of
captioning of
IP-delivered
video clips.
What portion
of
IP-delivered
video clips
generally, and
IP-delivered
news clips
specifically,
are captioned?
Has the
availability
of captioned
versions of
such clips
been
increasing?
What is the
quality of the
captioning on
IP-delivered
video clips.
The deadline
to submit
comments is
January 27,
2014.
Read
the full press
release.
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U.S.
Access Board
Releases Final
Report on
Accessibility
Standards for
Medical
Equipment
|
 The
U.S. Access
Board has
released its
final report
on
accessibility
standards for
medical
diagnostic
equipment,
such as
examination
tables,
scales, and
x-ray
machines.
These
standards will
be used to
make sure that
medical
equipment is
accessible and
usable by
people with
disabilities.
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Final
Rule Makes
Changes to
Regulations
Implementing
Section 503 of
the
Rehabilitation
Act
|
The U.S.
Department of
Labor's Office
of Federal
Contract
Compliance
Programs
(OFCCP)
announced a
Final Rule
that makes
changes to the
regulations
implementing
Section 503 of
the
Rehabilitation
Act of 1973,
as amended
(Section 503)
at 41 CFR Part
60-741. You
can view
the Final Rule
on the OFCCP
Web site,
and on the
Federal
Register Web
site, when
published.
Additional
information
about the
Final Rule is
provided in
the Frequently
Asked
Questions
(FAQs).
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43.7
Million
Americans
experienced
mental illness
in 2012
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Nearly one in
five American
adults, or
43.7 million
people,
experienced a
diagnosable
mental illness
in 2012
according to
the Substance
Abuse and
Mental Health
Services
Administration
(SAMHSA). The
findings also
shed light on
mental health
issues among
young people.
According to
the report,
2.2 million
youth aged 12
to 17 (9.1
percent of
this
population)
experienced a
major
depressive
episode in
2012.
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Government-Focused
Communication
Firm Turns to
Disabled
Accessibility
Testers to
Create
Accessible
Products
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GovDelivery
and WeCo
announced
their
continued
partnership to
meet the
requirements
of US
accessibility
legislation
and
international
standards by
relying on
people with
disabilities
to serve
as accessibility testers.
GovDelivery
is the leading
provider of
government-to-citizen
communication
solutions
designed to
help
government
organizations
reach, inform
and engage
stakeholders
more
effectively.
WeCo is a
mission-based
accessibility
firm which
provides
human-based
user-experience
testing by
employing
individuals
living with
disabilities
to deliver
their
services.
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Your
Support is
Needed to
Provide
Accessible
Schools in
Ghana
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Sefakor Komabu
Pomeyie,
Vermont Center
for
Independent
Living's
(VCIL) policy
intern from
2013, is
seeking
support to
help retrofit
ten schools in
Ghana to make
them more
accessible to
students with
disabilities.
By installing
ramps and
focusing on
principles of
universal
design at ten
schools in the
the
Nsawam-Adoagyiri
municipality,
more than
10,000 school
children will
have greater
access to an
education.
Photo: Sefakor
Komabu
Pomeyie.
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The New England
ADA Center is a
member of the ADA
National Network
funded by US
Department of
Education through
National Institute
on Disability
Rehabilitation and
Research Grant #
H133A110028.
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ADA Center
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