NDSS National Policy Center Blog: Go Behind the Scenes!
The NDSS National Policy Center Blog will give you a glimpse of how our policy center works. Each week you may learn about a meeting at the White House or an experience one of our staff members had with a member of Congress. Also look for special guest bloggers and important updates! Click here to view the blog.
Regal Entertainment Group Set to Air Buddy Walk PSA
The Regal Entertainment Group has agreed to donate three weeks of air time to promote the Buddy Walk. The 30-second Buddy Walk PSA will air nationwide on 7,200 screens before every movie from September 17th to October 8th.
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My Great Story of the Week
Inclusion
Colleen Bailey, Gladewater, TX
Once upon a time (a true story), my parents thought it would be cool to include me in a local Baby Contest. The judges for the newspaper gave me 3rd place and a star was born.
Then some nice people from the ARC in our county included my picture with my parents for a calendar fund-raiser. I liked our matching outfits and everyone knew us as the “orange family.”
Around this time, the great people with AMBUCS included me on the cover of their magazine because they liked how I was learning to ride my new Amtryke.
My mom thought we were on a roll so she entered my picture in the National Down Syndrome Society's Times Square Video contest and those people up in New York really liked my golf swing picture. They must have thought I looked like Tiger Woods because they included my picture as one of the winners.
Click here to continue reading Colleen’s story.
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Dan Piper Award Nominations
Due August 13th
Students With Down Syndrome And Other Intellectual Disabilities Find Success As Interns in The House Of Representatives
An internship and mentoring experience on Capitol Hill inside the offices of Congress is a dream of many young aspiring students, professionals and politicians. Now, thanks to an innovative program launched by Congressman Harper, the House Administration Committee Republicans, Mason LIFE, and the Collaboration to Promote Self Determination, it is a dream that has also been realized by students with intellectual disabilities.
An article this month in Politico featured the pilot program along with several participants, including a participant with Down syndrome: "Vivian Alonso, a short, smiling 25-year-old with Down syndrome, has trouble speaking, remembering and telling the difference between long and short lapses of time. Months often seem like days, and last week can easily become "yesterday." But she proudly shows off her desk in the GOP House Administration Committee office, and she's using the internship as a way to work on her reading skills."
NDSS is proud to be a co-creator of the Collaboration to Promote Self Determination and to work with the Mason LIFE program on expanding educational opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Click here to read the article.
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