Five municipalities rewarded for affordable housing progress

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(HARTFORD, CT) – The state Office of Policy and Management announced that five municipalities will each receive $20,000 grants in recognition of their progress in adopting “Incentive Housing Zones,” the Office of Policy and Management announced.

The “Housing for Economic Growth Program” rewards municipalities that voluntarily established the zones, which include mixed-income housing.

“Connecticut residents need housing options they can afford,” said OPM Secretary Ben Barnes. “This program does that while also encouraging ‘smart’ development. As Connecticut works to spur economic growth, a critical component of that effort is supporting a diverse mix of housing options for people of all incomes.”

Barnes pointed out that grants can be used by the receiving municipalities for any purpose.

The five municipalities receiving the grants are: Old Saybrook, Torrington, New London, East Lyme, and Sharon.

 

Fearless Caregiver Conference 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 2012, New Haven, Connecticut

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Grants for In-Home Care Available from Philanthropist with LGMD | Quest Magazine Online

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Limited financial aid for in-home care is available through CMMS Deshae Lott Ministries, a nonprofit founded by college professor and minister Deshae Lott, who has limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

Academic scholarships also are available for individuals with disabilities who want to pursue higher education beyond the bachelor’s degree level.

Deadlines for quality-of-life grants are May 1 and Nov. 1 of each year; the deadline for academic scholarships is July 1 of each year.

For more on this story, visit: Grants for In-Home Care Available from Philanthropist with LGMD | Quest Magazine Online.

Cycling Tour To Benefit Gaylord: Let’s Help Colleen Help Gaylord, One Year Later – Madison, CT Patch

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I’m guessing that the anniversary of the accident is not going to be an easy day for Colleen, who is not only a role model for me but now also a friend. I’m going to honor her that day by signing up for this ride. I hope you’ll consider doing so as well.

The tour will raise money to help Gaylord Specialty Healthcare patients. Specifically, Colleen would like to raise enough money to pay for four adaptive bikes. Costing around $3,000 each, these bikes can be used by people with many different kinds of disabilities to ride bike paths, trials, and road.

The Cycling Tour will October 20, 2012 and it will take place at the Farmington Canal Linear Trail in Simsbury beginning at 8:00 a.m. The event is a tour, not a race. It will start at Chubb Insurance, at 82 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, CT and is designed so that we can have fun while helping to raise funds for this great cause.

For more on this story, visit: Cycling Tour To Benefit Gaylord: Let’s Help Colleen Help Gaylord, One Year Later – Madison, CT Patch.

Ending Segregation of the Mentally Disabled | NYTimes.com

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For more than three decades, he has lived here at Central State Hospital, known in its darkest days as the home of the psychotic, the manic and the hopeless. For generations, invalids here have sipped life through feeding tubes, grown men with the minds of children have hummed tuneless melodies and patients tormented by delusions have banged their bodies against the walls with wordless screams.

No one dreamed that Mr. Burns would ever leave. He is severely mentally retarded and his doctors and parents assumed he would spend his final years here. Instead, Mr. Burns, who is 51, was preparing for something utterly unexpected: a life beyond the hospital walls.

For more on this story, visit: Ending Segregation of the Mentally Disabled – NYTimes.com.

A Candidates’ Forum on Disability Issues, 3-7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12

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A Candidates’ Forum on Disability Issues takes place from 3 to 7 p.m. Fri. Oct. 12, at Manchester Community College

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: John Kemp, Esq., a national leader on employment for people with disabilities, and a person with a disability himself, Mr. Kemp will be presenting “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for People with Disabilities.”

Light refreshments will be served, and sign language interpreters will be provided.

All Congressional and Senatorial candidates, as well as presidential surrogates, have been invited. Come hear the candidates present their platforms on disability issues.

This event is funded by the Developmental Disabilities Network:

The Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities, The Connecticut State Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, The University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Partial list of sponsors:Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Advocacy Unlimited, African Caribbean American Parents of Children with Disabilities, American School for the Deaf, Americans with Disabilities Act Coalition of Connecticut, Autism Spectrum Resource Center, Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut, Center for Disability Rights, Communitas, Connecticut Business Leadership Network, Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Connecticut State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, Connecticut State Department of Developmental Services, Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut, Disability Resource Center of Fairfield County, Focus on Recovery United, Eastern Regional Mental Health Board, Hear Here Hartford, Independence Unlimited, Institute on Disability and Community Inclusion at Manchester Community College, Keep the Promise Coalition, Mental Health Association of Connecticut, National Alliance on Mental Illness of Connecticut, National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut, North Central Regional Mental Health Board, Inc., People First, State Independent Living Council, The Arc Connecticut, The Connecticut Association of Personal Assistance, Inc. and Western CT Association for Human Rights, Inc.

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Jennifer Jaff dies at age 55: Jennifer Jaff, an Advocate For The Chonically Ill, Dies. | Courant.com

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FARMINGTON — Jennifer Jaff, whose struggle with Crohn’s disease prompted her to create an organization to advocate for others who suffer from chronic illnesses, has died.

Jaff, 55, of Farmington, was executive director of Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness Inc., the nonprofit group she founded in 2005. She died Sept. 14.

Jaff worked as a lawyer in the state attorney general’s office and as a partner with a Hartford law firm before creating the organization and working to assist others. She learned through an online community of people who suffered from Crohn’s disease that there were things she could do to help them.

For more on this story, visit: Jennifer Jaff dies at age 55: Jennifer Jaff, an Advocate For The Chonically Ill, Dies. – Courant.com.

Housing 2012 — the Connecticut Housing Coalition Annual Conference, Tuesday, Oct. 30, Hartford

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Our 2012 Annual Housing Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. Online registration will be available on this website beginning the week of Sept. 17. Save $20 per registration when you register by Oct. 5.

Online registration will be available on this website beginning the week of Sept. 17.  Save $20 per registration when you register by Oct. 5. Featured speaker is Bob Herbert, distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded to advance a more equitable economy,  and a contributing editor at the American Prospect magazine.

For more on this story, visit: The Connecticut Housing Coalition.

Disabled Veterans: Disabled Veterans Get Fitted By Brooks Brothers On First Day Of Boot Camp For Entrepreneurs | Courant.com

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WEST HARTFORD — Robert Doyle had a couple of dress suits, but when he was in Iraq they were stolen from his storage unit along with his desktop computer and golf clubs.

So Doyle, who was a sergeant first-class in the U.S. Army, was particularly pleased with the $1,000 midnight-blue, double-pinstripe suit he was fitted for Thursday. It was a gift for him from Brooks Brothers on the first day of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, based at the University of Connecticut.

The 10-day entrepreneurial program, which is sponsored by foundations, individual donors and businesses, will cover topics ranging from “elevator pitches” to marketing to social media and financing.

For more on this story, visit: Disabled Veterans: Disabled Veterans Get Fitted By Brooks Brothers On First Day Of Boot Camp For Entrepreneurs – Courant.com.

Disabled Athlete, Advocate Eli Wolff on Overlooked Dynamism & Diversity of Paralympic Games

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Some 4,200 athletes from 164 nations competed in 20 sporting events in the recent Paralympic Games. Yet the U.S. host broadcaster, NBC, decided to air only four hour-long highlights packages on its sports channel, compared to its wall-to-wall coverage of the Summer Olympics. Yet while the U.S. is a leader in disability rights, our guest Eli Wolff says that when it comes to the realm of sports, it’s “a major challenge to see people with disabilities as being rightfully part of that community, as being athletic.”

DemocracyNow.org – Despite being a major sporting event, the largest Paralympics in history barely made headlines over the past week despite attracting 4,200 athletes from 164 countries and selling out stadiums for every session before it even began. The U.S. host broadcaster, NBC, decided to air only four hour-long highlights packages on its sports channel compared to its wall-to-wall coverage of the Olympics. The Paralymics were initiated by a group of British World War II veterans in 1948 and since grown into an international competition known for its world class athletes and spirit of inclusivity. We’re joined by Eli Wolff, a professor and former national paralympic soccer player who helped draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2003, and is still recognized as a leader in the field today.

To watch the entire weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org.