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Self-Advocate Educates Others About Benefits of Public Transportation

12/05/17 - Accessibility in Public, Education, Guest Blogger, Inspiring People, jjslist.com, Pace Bus, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

Guest Blog by Bridget Brown, Self-Advocate and Disability Advocate

Hop Team with Thornwood High School Students

I am part of a team who teaches students and adults with disabilities about the benefits of riding public transportation and how to do it! I work with Ed from PACE…

Foundation Funded Trainings Experience Success

09/27/17 - Accessibility in Public, Business News, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, jjslist.com, Person-First Language, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

The Disability Awareness Players had another record-breaking year in Fiscal Year 2017!

JJsList.com Disability Awareness Players at Lincoln Elementary School in Highland Park

Overall 40+ Disability Awareness Trainings were provided to over 2,600 people in the most recent year. A recent grant from the Reva & David…

Workshops Have Team Hopping

09/15/17 - Accessibility in Public, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Hop on the Bus to Independence, jjslist.com, Pace Bus, Transportation, Uncategorized, Wheelchair Users - 2 Comments

Pace Suburban Bus Training Team, Ed and Bridget

Pace Suburban Bus and JJ’s List Training Teams have been busy with the Hop on the Bus to Independence Workshops throughout the Chicagoland area. Just this month the team has been to Lincolnshire, Orland Park, Elgin, Aurora and many…

Hello JJ’s List Community!

09/07/17 - ABLE - A Better Life for Everybody, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Law, Down Syndrome, Education, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Uncategorized - 18 Comments

Tricia Luzadder, Ventures Program Manager

I am very happy to be writing you from JJ’s List and Search! My name is Tricia Luzadder and I am the new Ventures Programs Manager at Search’s Evanston site. While I am new in this role, I am not entirely…

Plant a Seed and Watch It Grow

06/02/17 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, jjslist.com - 3 Comments

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…

Launching My Career

05/10/17 - Disability Employment and Housing, jjslist.com, No Boundaries - 5 Comments

A guest blog by Kate Hilbrant
Many individuals have benefited from No Boundaries since the program began, and have gone on to have successful careers. One individual is Kate Hilbrant of Winnetka, IL. With training and support from No Boundaries staff and mentors, Hilbrant recently landed…

Wheelchair Bowling: Do Wheelchairs belong in Bowling Alleys?

04/25/17 - Accessibility in Public, ADA, Disability Law, Disability-Aware Businesses, jjslist.com, Wheelchair Users - 5 Comments

A Wheeling, IL Bowling Alley Reportedly Says Wheelchairs Don’t Belong.

Recently, a special education teacher posted a review on JJ’s List.com about Pinheads Jeffery Lanes in Wheeling, IL, saying that the manager denied her a reservation for her school group because the wheels of a wheelchair user…

Julia on Sesame Street and the Disability Awareness Players

04/19/17 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Guest Blogger, jjslist.com - 3 Comments

A guest blog by Bill Sitter

At JJsList.com we always say, “When you have met one person with a disability, you have met one person with a disability.” It’s all about focusing on the person as an individual who is part of a group rather than as an…

What the Heck is Person First Language?

03/31/17 - Accessibility in Public, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability-Aware Businesses, jjslist.com - 3 Comments

Simply put, person-first language is a way of talking with or about disability that focuses on the person first and the disability second, if at all. It’s easy! And it makes a difference in effectively connecting with your co-workers and employees who have disabilities.

Fire…

Deaf Students Learn to Take Public Transportation

- Accessibility in Public, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Hop on the Bus to Independence, jjslist.com, Pace Bus, Transportation - 3 Comments

Bridget at one of the Hop on the Bus Trainings

When a class of deaf and hard of hearing students boarded a public bus recently, they got a surprise. Bridget, a disability self-advocate, who was there to train them spoke her lines in sign language!

The students…