June 1999
Mars Inc. Settles
Discrimination Suit
The dispute involved allegations of failure by Mars
to accommodate an employee's depression.
Free Self-Advocacy
Training Available for Parents
Topics covered in the two-hour training include
explanation of the special education child's legal right to a free and appropriate
education, the rights of the parents to actively participate in the process for making
educational decisions for their child, and methods for monitoring their child's progress.
President's Committee Job Fair
Workshop on Inclusive
Education
Everyone is Welcome Inc is presenting workshop May
12-13 on the philosophy, instructional strategies and organizational practices of
inclusive education.
Taking Charge : Responding
to Abuse and Neglect
The Advocacy and Empowerment Project is offering
full day workshops designed to increase your awareness of the
relationship between disability and abuse/neglect.
DanceUnbound Benefit Gala
The event will benefit the nonprofit arts/advocacy
performance company, Chicago's first professional mixed abilities dance company.
ADA: Access to the
Millennium
A celebration of the 9th anniversary of the ADA July
22 will feature dozens of exhibitors and entertainers with disabilities highlighting their
contributions to the implementation of the ADA.
Campaign for Better Health
Care Seeks Volunteers
Health care advocacy group fighting for consumer
rights seeks volunteers for its Managed Care/Medicare HelpLine.
IL Fund for Child Care
Do you qualify for benefits?
Complaint Filed
Against Illinois on Delivery of Home Services
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago has filed a
complaint concerning the State of Illinois' programs.
Defendants
Named in Discrimination Case
Equip for Equality filed suit in US District Court
against Cook County Circuit Court, the Cook County Sheriff's Department and Cook County
Sheriff Michael F Sheahan under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973 and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
April 1999
April is Fair Housing Month
1999: International Year
of Older Persons
The United Nations has designated 1999 the
International Year of Older Persons with the theme of "Toward a Society for All
Ages."
State Campaign for Homeless
PA Needed at Work
Location: the State of Illinois Building from 10:30
to 3:30 every Thursday and Friday and every other Tuesday.
In Memoriam: Anna Stonum
About ten years ago Anna created a cartoon for ADAPT
tee shirts, modeled after Darwin's famous ascent of man -- from a crawling anthropoid to
an upright ape to a biped homo sapiens to a person in a wheelchair.
IL Petition on Campaign Reform
Nominees for Gargoyle
Awards: Start Thinking!
Applications for nominations coming next month.
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