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Matt and John with Rotarians
Recently, participants John Doetsch and Matt LaChapelle were guest speakers at a meeting of the Evanston Lighthouse Lighthouse Rotary Club (ELRC) to help kick off the Rotary’s upcoming Taste of Evanston. The July 9 event at the historic Dawes House will benefit…
Anna and her travel trainer
The Day My Teenager Learned Public Transportation
I finally got a call from the Chicago Public Schools district travel trainer to let me know that he was ready to begin teaching my teenage daughter how to take fixed-route public transportation. She is…
Disability Awareness Players Build Diversity and Inclusion
When we started training companies and organizations to welcome customers and employees with disabilities through disability awareness, we didn’t realize that the Players were helping to plant the seed for something equally important: including people with disabilities in volunteerism…
A guest blog by Diamond Grant
When you have a disability, you sometimes need very specific care which may require more frequent doctor visits and help from specialists who are familiar with your condition. The process of keeping up with so much can quickly become confusing, and…
On Valentine’s Day, our Disability Awareness Players visited Evanston Township High School to give its faculty tips on how to interact with their students and fellow faculty members who have disabilities. Everyone was actively engaged, and we received a lot of positive feedback, such as…
Last week, our Disability Awareness Players trained a group of filmmakers at Kartemquin Films to be disability aware. In addition to the training, the Players shared their experiences with living with a disability, as well as their thoughts on disability representation in the media. It was…
Service with a smile is taken literally when service dogs come into play or work. Since dogs are man’s and woman’s best friend, you can’t go wrong choosing them. When I was given this topic, I remembered my good friend Kate Dolan has Oscar, a…
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Last week, we at JJslist.com got TV time when local news station WGN Chicago broadcast a story about our work to build disability awareness. The story featured interviews with a few of our staff members, and a clip from our work…
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