How people with disabilities were left behind during COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has greatly taken a toll on people with disabilities, who were isolated and cut off from services or feel distressed about getting COVID.
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The pandemic has greatly taken a toll on people with disabilities, who were isolated and cut off from services or feel distressed about getting COVID.
When a personal crisis emerged last summer, Ontario university student Marysa Marentette’s mental well-being began to fray.
Alan Cobo-Lewis, associate professor of psychology and director of the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, spoke to the Maine Beacon about the importance of raising direct care worker wages in order to eliminate large waitlists for various home or community-based care services. Cobo-Lewis said that even the long-sought raise to $15.94 an hour […]
Students, faculty and staff taught two dozen children and women about STEM through many different hands-on activities.
This is a special edition of the DirectEmployers Week In Review covering the three days of the DirectEmployers 2022 Annual Meeting (DEAMcon22) for Members and Non-Members held this year...