The Connecticut Community Action Agency (CAA) Network began accepting early energy assistance applications for the 2018-2019 heating season Aug. 1, 2018. Connecticut residents struggling to pay their utility bills can apply for home heating assistance at their local CAA. Community … Continue reading
Category Archives: disability rights
Ed note: Connecticut Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jr., (D-Branford), a healthcare lawyer and civil rights activist for people with disabilities, is board chairman of the American Association of People with Disabilities. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Twenty-seven years ago, the Americans … Continue reading
Approximately 20 Yalies attended a conversation about political issues including medical insurance and disability rights with state Sen. Ted Kennedy FES ’91, D-Branford, hosted by the Yale College Democrats on Wednesday evening. After he was diagnosed with bone cancer at … Continue reading
Darien senior citizens and/or disabled people who are renters may be eligible for a rent rebate from the State of Connecticut for the year 2016. The program, which is now in progress, will continue through Sept. 31, 2017 at the … Continue reading
IN AMERICA in 1970 one child in 14,000 was reckoned to be autistic. The current estimate is one in 68—or one in 42 among boys. Similarly high numbers can be found in other rich countries: a study in South Korea … Continue reading
The federal Department of Education said on Tuesday it would offer to write off $7.7 billion of student debt owed by disabled individuals, taking a big step to streamline a loan forgiveness program long plagued by bureaucratic delay and inefficiency. … Continue reading
TAKE ACTION! http://ly.adapt.org/diaengage BACKGROUND While in Washington DC, ADAPT is working to secure Senate cosponsors of the Disability Integration Act (S.2427) and secure introduction of a House version. This historic civil rights legislation requires states and insurance providers that pay … Continue reading
Call NOW to urge Senator Murphy to support the right of all people with disabilities to live in freedom! Call 1-866-220-0044. Ask for Senator Murphy’s office. Say: “Please cosponsor the Disability Integration Act (S.2427). As someone who has cosponsored previous … Continue reading
Registration is Now Open for the 37th Annual FHACt Fair Housing Conference ‘Steps to Eradicating Housing Discrimination and Patterns of Segregation’ Thursday, April 28, 2016 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Sheraton Hartford South 100 Capital Boulevard, Rocky Hill, CT 06067 … Continue reading
by Justin Volpe, Justin Volpe is a Certified Recovery Peer Specialist living in Miami. Jails have become warehouses for those struggling with mental illness as well as drug addiction. Serious mental illness now affects about one in six men and … Continue reading