Welcome to the Access Living Youth Site!
In the News!
Access Living staff and youth are featured in a story about disability and college at the Medill
News Service. To read all about it and watch a video, see http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=126151.
Great job!
New!
Reaching Our Dreams (R.O.D.) Independent Living Skills Club!
We now have a new club where youth can come to work on independent living skills. Our
meeting topics include time management, budgeting, nutrition and how to cook a healthy meal. To join or
sign up for one-on-one independent living skills trainings, call Carleda at (312) 640-2159 or e-mail at
cjohnson@accessliving.org.
We will be at the Disability Pride Parade!
Will you?
Access Living youth members will be marching in the Disability Pride Parade on July 25 in
Chicago! Will you be there? Our Interim Youth Team Leader, Amber Smock, will be the 2009 Disability
Pride Parade Grand Marshal. For more information and to sign your group up for the Parade, visit
www.disabilityprideparade.org.
WAKE UP TO DISABILITY PRIDE AT ACCESS LIVING!
Across the country, young people with disabilities are waking up to disability pride and
culture. We want equal rights and equal lives. What we need is information that will empower us
to advocate for the lives we want. That's why we created this website.
Most of the time, those of us with disabilities are the only ones in our families who have a disability.
It's hard to explain what that's like to people without disabilities. However, at this website you can
find information by and about people who know what it's like living life with a disability.
We've got REAL information for your REAL life with a disability: stuff about dating, activism, getting news,
disability pride, participating in Chicago events.
Access Living is part of the Independent Living movement. We believe in the right of all people to make
their own decisions about their lives. We work to give people the power to decide where they will live
and what they will do in their every day lives. We work to fight shame and discrimination that keep
people from being all they can be.
Take a few moments to check out our stuff. Tell us what you think! We are always looking for
suggestions. E-mail suggestions to Amber at asmock@accessliving.org.
Above, AYLP members Damian, Chris, Krystal, Zorytza and Jason wait at the bus stop with AL
Staff Carleda Johnson
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