self-advocacy

San Diego People First (SDP) has a tradition of holding an annual self-advocacy conference. It is a big deal for many people, the conference’s dinner and dance are the social […]

What is at the core of Self-Advocacy for people with developmental disabilities? I don’t think it is anger or any other negative emotion, but there is the desire to get

What motivates you to self-advocacy? For me to begin with, it is meeting my basic needs–health, employment, transportation, housing, and relationships. Then I want to include fraternal love, solidarity, and

Self-Advocacy is for the good times and the bad. I have COVID and am at home resting and quarantining. I had my booster shot, so my symptoms are mild, but

What burns in my heart and motivates me to be a Self-Advocate? There are the frustrations of dealing with inflexible systems designed by professionals out of touch with the lives

Tomorrow, I will have my Quarterly Review in my office with my Service Coordinator. Both of us will be wearing masks practicing all staying safe protocols. We will talk about

I am going to the Leading the Charge conference this Thursday. It is being put on by DDPN. I find leadership so very hard. The first step is to lead

The work of Self-Advocacy is ongoing and never stops. Today at a Zoom meeting, we reviewed articles for the next edition of the iSpeak newsletter. This is a challenging endeavor

Everyone faces obstacles, trips, and falls. What is it that gets us to pull ourselves off the ground, stand straight and tall and proceed forward? That something is what we

Self-Advocacy teaches us our value is intrinsic flowing from our personhood. Well, that may be so, but I have had an overarching desire to be found competent in something. I