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Disability Action Center NW (DAC NW) has finished production and released four Mental Health Toolbox videos to help young people deal with anxiety and stress. The four short videos focus on the importance of self-care, maintaining healthy schedules, practicing mindfulness, ...
By Kali Nelson, for the Tribune – Nov 13, 2021 Updated Nov 13, 2021 Right before the COVID-19 pandemic, Sid Eder and his wife, Renee, put an advertisement on Craigslist and the university job boards looking for some additional help in caring for their adult daughter, ...
Idaho’s Center on Disabilities and Human Development (CDHD) is creating a self-advocacy webpage which will be linked to the CDHD home page. This website will be for Idahoans with disabilities, and by Idahoans with disabilities. There will be articles, resources, stories, ...
After four years of fund-raising, Lena Whitmore Elementary School opens recreational plaza that is wheelchair friendly. A new wheelchair accessible playground at Lena Whitmore Elementary School opened to students and the broader Moscow community last week. The school’s ...
Koppel Farm Pullman Community Garden received a $13,900 grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation for building an accessible pathway from the parking lot to the new accessible garden plot. The rant will help support people with disabilities who want to be able ...
Koppel Farm Pullman Community Garden recently received close to a $14,000 grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The grant will help build an accessible pathway from the parking lot to the new accessible garden plot. This grant is part of the 2021 1st Cycle ...
COEUR d’ALENE — Atlas Park has much to like, but for Devyn Burdett, the ADA-compliant ramp tops the list. While wearing a dress, the holder of the Ms. Wheelchair Idaho title rolled a few feet into the Spokane River, smiling as she went, beaming even brighter when she left ...
COEUR d’ALENE — A celebration of the new ADA-compliant ramp at Atlas Park is set for July 23 — but some who aren’t supposed to are already using it. And even abusing it. Kids were climbing on the ramp as a launching point for swimming and snorkeling in the inviting clear ...
By Scott Jackson, Daily News staff writer July 23, 2021 Participants were treated to sunshine, free hamburgers, bags of groceries and even school supplies Thursday at a celebration of the 31st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, hosted by local nonprofit ...
Disability Action Center NW will have a free public party from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Mountain View Park in Moscow. The event will celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law. The event will feature a resource fair, ...
