Nick Papadopoulos, a 43-year-old who has been in a Royston nursing home for four years, is featured in a new film about the wait list for services in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the movie 6,000 Waiting.By Jill Nolin - May 25, 2021
The move into a nursing home in Royston was supposed to be...
Michael E. Holton, Jr.Guyton resident Michael E. Holton, Jr. has been selected as one of ten storytellers from across Georgia to present in Treasure Maps: The Georgia Storytelling Roadshow 2021, a series of drive-in performances held in six target cities across Georgia.
27-year-old...
Even before the spreading coronavirus forced businesses to close their doors, 85% of Americans with disabilities did not workKandi Clubine in Arizona, Jamie Beck in Indiana and three workers at the Hugs Cafe in McKinney, Texas.By Noreen O'Donnell, NBC News • Published April 19, 2021
For 35...
Jefferson resident Brianna James speaks on behalf of her 26-year-old sister, Callie Moore, at a press conference on March 30 about how Medicaid waiver services have allowed Moore to live on her own despite her disabilities.
by Riley Bunch
ATLANTA — Some Georgia families have waited more than a...
Gracie Joy Noblesby Riley Bunch
ATLANTA - A bill that would protect organ access for Georgians with disabilities is on its way to the governor’s desk.
Better known as “Gracie’s Law,” the bill sponsored by Milledgeville Republican Rep. Rick Williams would open up an immediate pathway through...
The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities joins entities in our state and across the country in horror and mourning at the recent murders of people of Asian descent in Atlanta. This heartbreaking loss of life has occurred during an ongoing, widespread uptick in hate crimes and...
March 4, 2021, Written by Trelani Michelle
Any good visual artist, writer, musician, or dancer will tell you that the process of creating is deeply spiritual. Artists are vessels for the ancestors to communicate. Like when they told Shimoda Donna Emanuel that she wants to learn how to make...
Click image above to view Channel Two Action News VideoATLANTA — There are new plans to vaccinate even more Georgians. Governor Brian Kemp announced five new mass vaccination sites that will open in the just a few weeks, The closest to the metro area is in Bartow County. The governor also...