To Jell

Individual self-advocacy can accomplish a great deal. It can help you resolve problems with your service delivery, make your IPP more tailored to your wants, needs, and hopes, and resolve relationships in your life that have become problematic. As important as it is, systemic self-advocacy can affect our rights, funding of services, and how services are delivered. Self-advocates must come together and unite and act in solidarity. We must find the issues that bind us as one voice. We can advocate together through letter writing campaigns, visiting government officials, and when times return to normal, participate in rallies. I am attending a number of Zoom groups where the members are starting to jell, We openly share with one another and confide with one another. We are developing a strong bond of trust. We don’t have an issue yet but perhaps next year we will.

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