September 14, 2010 – 8:27 AM
By Keith Hosey, Guest Writer I’ve been working in the disability rights field for seven years and have been in the “business” of disability since I was born with the congenital disability of severe bilateral club feet. My parents never told me “you can’t” when it came to my disability, in fact they didn’t even [...]
September 8, 2010 – 11:03 AM
By Cole Watts, Guest Writer If someone you love has been diagnosed with a disability or serious medical condition their mental state can be somewhat affected. Learning what to expect in the time following a serious and life-altering diagnosis can help you feel more prepared and may put you in a better position to assist [...]
Amazing what can happen when you bring together a bunch of young people with good hearts, strong backs and some summer free-time with a few old guys who really know what they’re doing. Throw in a project or two that will literally change the lives of others for the better and you have another Ability [...]
Okay, here’s a recipe for FUN!: a really warm day, a bunch of teens, a couple of hoses, buckets, sponges and soap. Throw in a long line of cars and vans and “BAM!”, you’ve got yourself a fun time AND a car wash rolled into one. You also have a recipe for making a little [...]
Unprecedented. At least, in the memories of those of us long a part of the Center. Never has a Director of the Rehabilitation Services Commission visited the Ability Center, especially not with the same intent as that of Michael Rench, current Director. As part of his goal to personally visit and dialogue with every Independent [...]
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590, Public Law 111-148) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Implementation of this law will be a lengthy process with some provisions effective immediately and others that will not go into effect until 2014. Two important provision of the insurance market reforms that go into [...]
With Spring comes a “full-speed ahead” attitude in the Ability Center’s Housing Resource Center. “When adding up the projects completed, we typically count from the beginning of our Fiscal Year, which is October 1st”, states Ash Lemons, ACT’s Director of the Housing Resource Center (HRC), “but, once the snow is gone and the ground has [...]
February 1, 2010 – 10:43 AM
by Sue Hetrick, Director of Public Policy (via Ohio Disability Vote Coalition) Think elections aren’t worth your time and effort? Think again. According to an article in the Columbus Dispatch on Saturday, January 30, 2010 both Republicans and Democrats raised record campaign gifts in 2009. Representative Jay Goyal, D-Mansfield, the Democrat’s caucus campaign chairman, said [...]
