Check out Public Authority Board President Alice Wong's video, "Alice Wong: Disability Advocacy and the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Experience." She submitted the video, which clocks in at 2:49 minutes, to the White House initiative on AAPIs "What's Your Story?" video challenge. The video is also in response to "the current political rhetoric around low-income individuals on programs such as Medicaid." It's a knockout!
Our 2011 Vision and Voice newsletter! Check out Donna Calame's Letter from the Director, which includes an overview of our 15-year history; a list of state proposals seeking to undermine IHSS; an article on our Consumer Peer Mentor Program; and things the Public Authority staff CAN'T DO, among other items. Please see the IHSS Resource Materials Link/Public Authority Publications.
See hundreds of people with disabilities gather in Sacramento for Disability Capitol Action Day (5/26/10) to assert their human and civil rights to live outside of institutions and protest proposed budget cuts to services.
