United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries » 2009 » February
Follow Disabilities Inclusion Associates Jacky Schofield and Ann Marino and blog with the team using the comment box below as they develop the Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministry Team.
Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministries Team Report
First Quarter 2008
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Churches using the Accessible to All resource, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, CHRIST’S BODY, are invited to offer feedback about this curriculum.
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The Accessible to All (A2A) Study Guide with Resources for Churches, developed and edited by the Rev. Jo Clare Hartsig, can be read or downloaded by clicking Study Guide. above.
Disabilities Ministries Team
Connecticut Conference
2008 Activity
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It is also a guide to information about blindness, visual handicaps and other physical handicaps, with a special collection of Wisconsin resources. There are about 2,300 individual links, all evaluated, annotated and organized by subject.
“On a typical Monday morning at an atypical high school, teenage boys yanked open the glass doors to the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga. Half-awake, iPod wires curling from their ears, their backpacks unbuckled and their jeans baggy, the guys headed for the elevator. Arriving at Morning Meeting in the third-floor conference room, Stephen, his face hidden under long black bangs, dropped into a chair, sprawled across the table and went back to sleep. The Community School, or T.C.S., is a small private school for teenage boys with autism or related disorders. Sleep disturbances are common in this student body of 10, so a boy’s staggering need for sleep is respected. Nick Boswell, a tall fellow with thick sideburns, arrived and began his usual pacing along the windows that overlook the church parking lot and baseball diamond. Edwick, with spiky brown hair and a few black whiskers, tumbled backward with a splat into a beanbag chair on the floor.”
Read the full article by Melissa Fay Greene at www.nytimes.com, it is necessary to register (free) on www.nytimes.com.
Search Melissa Fay Greene or Reaching an Autistic Teenager
Publication date October 17, 2008
Access to Worship
This access guide is a brief resource, designed to alert UCC Churches, Conferences, camps, and other UCC organizations to the most commonly over looked accessibility issues. Please consult this document before you begin planning your next worship experience, annual meeting, camp location or hospitality training. Using the basic accessibility principles presented here will enable people with disabilities to fully participate in the life of their church.
Kareem Dale has been appointed as Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy.
To read the article, visit the February 13, 2009 blog at whitehouse.gov.
November 29th, 2007
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Camp of the Heart at Hartman Center
A United Church of Christ Conference, Camp and Retreat Center
Milroy, Pennsylvania
The U C C D M has designated a fund to honor the life and ministry of Harold H. Wilke, devoted minister, disability advocate and pioneer.
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What are some of your experiences, insights, growings from relating to ageism and/or changes and needs relating to accessibility? What are some of the innovative changes that have been made at your church to improve inclusion? What about the invisible disabilities of aging?
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