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by Moira Bucciarelli, Photographer: Haylee Fucini-Lenkey
Nandi – short for Nanditha – is finally home. She has lived in a variety of places, some better than others. Nandi gets emotional as she recalls painful experiences from her group home life – in one instance being told to pack up and move...
GCDD IMPACT - GCDD Receives Five Year Strategic Plan Feedback from Disability Community
During the months of August and September, GCDD hosted listening sessions and focus groups to hear from people around the state about what issues mattered to them. To make sure Georgians with disabilities, their family members, caregivers and community advocates shared what changes they’d like...
REAL COMMUNITIES - Welcoming Community Dialogue Groups Host Virtual Retreat and Summit
Twenty-seven community advocates for inclusion and change from the Real Communities Partnership (RCP) and the Welcoming Communities Dialogues (WCD) groups gathered virtually from August 19 to 21 for their annual retreat.
For those three days, the work centered around their response to a movie...
Fall 2020 - WHAT’S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON? Federal Disability Policy Updates
These past few months have seen a number of starts and stops in negotiations on a new Congressional COVID-19 relief package, and we expect a busy fall ahead as this Congress wraps up.
COVID-19 Response:
Congressional Response: Congress passed three COVID-19 relief bills and an interim bill...
The State of Employment: Collaboration, Change and Solutions Amid COVID-19
On June 16, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp announced Chris Wells as the new executive director of the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA). The agency has been undergoing re-organization for the past five years, meaning it has been in a state of perpetual change.
Before Wells’ arrival,...
PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE PEOPLE: What to Know At The Polls
There’s a lot of information out there. Here’s how to make sure you’re prepared to make your vote count.Cheri Mitchell is a member of the HAVA (Help America Vote Act) Team at the Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO). Here are some of the most common issues she sees voters with disabilities have on...
PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE PEOPLE: The Disability Vote Counts!
“VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, BECAUSE IT DOES!” – Justin Dart
In this edition of Public Policy for the People, we will be focusing on the upcoming 2020 election, which sees key national and state seats up for grabs. This election will certainly be one for the history books, as much of our...
SELF-ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT - Exercise Your Voting Rights
John McCarty, consultant and member of the Uniting for Change Leadership Collective, talks about what voting means to him as a citizen and self-advocate.
I’ve always been interested in news. The news about how the government operates and what the government is doing has always fascinated me. I...
GCDD VIEWPOINT - A Time of Opportunity
As we move closer to 2021, we can either look at this time with regret and sadness – or as a time of opportunity. Though battling COVID-19 has meant being away from friends and family, new technology allows us to be together even when we are far apart. We at the Georgia Council on Developmental...
Albany Tech takes a L.E.A.P. for Students with Disabilities
When Regina Watts arrived in 2008, Albany Technical College didn’t have an inclusive post-secondary education (IPSE) program. Watts had worked in the disability space for over a decade prior, and she wrote the idea for an inclusive program down on an initial list of goals. “I wanted to create a...
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- EXPERT UPDATE - Keeping Employment First
- GCDD Announces New NoFA/RFP for Virtual Advocacy Days Event Planner
- GCDD'S Five Year Planning Process Update – August 2020
- Mia got COVID
- GCDD is Hiring a Policy and Advocacy Fellow
- GCDD's Welcoming Community Movement Funding Opportunity Grant Now Open - Deadline to apply October 10
- GCDD Announces the Dottie Adams Scholarship Fund
- Meet the People Behind “6,000 Waiting,” GCDD’s Forthcoming Documentary
- REAL COMMUNITIES – Keeping the “Welcome” in Welcoming Community Dialogues
- GCDD IMPACT - Georgia Advocacy Office Raises Awareness about Supported Decision-Making