ACTION ALERT: Keep Up the Fight for Covid-19 Relief for People with Disabilities!
08.10.20Over this past weekend, you have probably heard that Congressional efforts to create a new agreement on Covid-19 relief funding...
Amid the Nursing Home Crisis, Home and Community-Based Services Should Take Center Stage
08.06.20Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is written by Angel Love Miles, Ph.D, Access Living’s Healthcare and Home and Community Based...
Covid-19 Disability Call-In Day: #WhatWeNeed is HCBS Funding
08.04.20Today, we'd like to share the below critical action alert from the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL). Access Living...
Media Alert: Guidance Aims to Address Bias and Discrimination, Save Disabled Lives
07.31.20WHAT: Access Living, Chicago’s leading service and advocacy organization for disabled people, will host a webinar to discuss how state...
Action Alert: The HEALS Act Does Not Meet Disability Needs
07.30.20Today, we'd like to share the following national action alert from the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL). Access Living...
Senate Covid-19 Action Alert; Texas Complaint; #ADA30 Media Sampling
07.29.20Access Living friends and allies: We have a few different important updates for you today (including an action alert). Action...
Action Alert: Lift Up Victims of Covid-19 in Illinois Congregate Facilities
07.27.20News Alert on Illinois Department of Public Health Changes: WBEZ reported this morning that two top officials who were part...
Reflections on #ADA30 from a Member of the ADA Generation
07.26.20Editor’s Note: Ashley Eisenmenger is Public Relations Coordinator at Access Living and the editor of this blog. A blind woman,...
Access Living CEO Karen Tamley Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the ADA
07.24.20Access Living friends and allies: Today, I reflect on the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and...
A Congressional Action Alert, Then Check Out #ADA30inColor
07.23.20This is a great project featuring a series of original essays on the past, present, and future of disability rights...