by Elly Yu
ATLANTA, May 4, 2017 – House Republicans in Washington are planning to vote Thursday on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions have ruled the headlines this week, but the bill still includes big changes to Medicaid.
Potential...
GUEST COLUMNIST: ARC is a nonprofit agency purposed to improve the lives of people with disabilitiesALBANY, April 30, 2017 – Friday, Jose Tongol and his band, the Yoyos, will perform at the Nelson Tift Building for Albany Advocacy Resource Center’s Cinco de Mayo. The Tift Building is located...
VALDOSTA, March 27, 2017 – The Valdosta Mayor’s Council for Persons with Disabilities hosts a Banker’s Roundtable 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, March 27.
The meeting goal is "to brainstorm the financial accessibility issues faced by individuals with disabilities and to seek solutions for improved...
Fayetteville, GA, January 5, 2017 - Partners Pizza recently got an important visitor checking in on one of their favorite workers, as Take Your Legislator To Work Day brought State Senator Marty Harbin to Fayetteville to meet Corbett Dishman. Dishman is a junior at Whitewater High School who...
Student invites Sen. Albers to school to learn about workers with disabilities
MILTON, Ga. November 2, 2016— As part of the national “Take Your Legislator to Work Day” campaign, Milton High School invited state Sen. John Albers Oct. 27 to shadow student Jacob Moore for the day.
The campaign...
Dalton, GA, September 9, 2016—Cross Plains Community Partner and Shaw Group Industries have been recognized by Project SEARCH for attaining 100% employment for its 2015—2016 Project SEARCH internship program, an intensive work skills developmental program designed to facilitate a successful post...
The U.S. Department of Justice has for more than a year been pushing Georgia to do right by its behaviorally disabled students. Many of these children have been subjected to substandard education in crummy classrooms with inadequate therapeutic resources, totally isolated from the general...
The Georgia General Assembly deserves an overall performance grade of B-minus for its 2016 legislative actions, according to the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities in its newly released wrap-up edition of Public Policy for the People legislative newsletter, announced Monday.
The...
