Edition: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing

In this issue we get an inside perspective on a local shelter, explore universal design, and review the laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities and their service animals. This issue also includes a featured section where we dive into the topic of divisive concepts and the role intersectionality plays in our fight for disability rights.

Posted in: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing Posted on May 9, 2022May 16, 2022

The Truth will Build a Better Future

By Deborah Opramolla Historical opinions change, historical facts do not. Many of us learned about Harriet Tubman in school. We were taught that she was an enslaved woman on a plantation in Maryland. She successfully freed herself from her masters by using the Underground Railroad to get to Pennsylvania. Tubman then returned...

Posted in: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing Posted on May 9, 2022May 16, 2022

First Steps in Advocacy

By Imani Barbarin Standing at the front of my fourth-grade classroom, the speech I had practiced with my parents was liable to fly out of my head at any second. Each year, since I was old enough to stand on my own and do so, I made a speech to my class about my disability. It was an easy way to decrease the sheer number of questions I was...

Posted in: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing Posted on May 9, 2022May 16, 2022

Let’s Talk Progress

By Dr. LaMondre Pough I am LaMondre Pough, the CEO of Billion Strong, a global identity movement by people with disabilities. I was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a rare neurological disorder, when I was 18 months old. As a result of SMA, I am a full-time wheelchair user, and I require assistance with all my activities of...

Posted in: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing Posted on May 9, 2022May 16, 2022

New Hampshire’s ‘Divisive Concepts’ Law and the Big Chill

By John Greabe Much critical commentary on the so-called “divisive concepts” provisions in this year’s budget legislation – the label comes from language in an earlier version of the bill – has focused on their content- and viewpoint-based restraints on speech. These speech restrictions prohibit state...

Posted in: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing Posted on May 9, 2022May 16, 2022

Announcement of Grants Awarded by the NH Council on Developmental Disabilities

Disability Rights Center-NH will receive $50,000 to develop a statewide Supported Decision-Making initiative to provide education, training, and technical assistance related to supported decision-making as an alternative to guardianship. Harbor Care of Nashua,...