Several CRC ministries have come together to create a slide presentation for ministry leaders to begin the conversation on mental health. Check out this valuable tool!
Join Disability Concerns for our annual Leadership Training Event - August 11th and 12th!
En esta edición, las personas con y sin discapacidades comparten sus expresiones artísticas a través de la poesía, historias, cánticos e imágenes.
Disability Concerns is excited to announce the release of our newest resource: Everybody Belongs, Serving Together!
Thanks to Mark Stephenson for his leadership! Feel free to drop a comment sharing a memory or note of encouragement.
Are you between the ages of 18 and 30? Do you have a passion for justice and advocacy work? Apply now to be a part of The Disability Advocacy Journey!
In this issue of Breaking Barriers, people with and without disabilities share their creative expression in poetry, story, song, and image.
Michèle Gyselinck is a regional advocate for Disability Concerns. She lives with schizophrenia and expresses herself creatively through painting. Her art is featured in our Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers Newsletter.
Be encouraged by these creative expressions shared by residents of the Brothers and Sisters Homes in Holland, MI.
After almost 15 years serving as Director of Disability Concerns Ministry for the CRCNA, Mark Stephenson has announced his retirement.
Meet Cara Milne, our Disability Concerns Regional Advocate for Classis Alberta South and Saskatchewan.
Meet the Disability Concerns regional advocates for each classis in Canada in our re-imagined Canadian content newsletter.
Join Disability Concerns Canada every week in October for our 2021 annual training event. Residents of Canada and the U.S. are welcome to attend.
To all Disability Concerns volunteers—regional advocates, church advocates, advisory committee/guiding coalition members, and so many more of you that support our ministry in many ways—we want to pause and say thank you.
흑인, 원주민 또는 유색인종으로 태어나거나 장애를 가지고 산다는 것은 개인에게 큰 도전을 안겨주고 사회적 기회 또한 줄어듭니다. 이번 호 저자들은 인종과 장애가 만나는 지점에서 그들의 이야기를 들려줍니다.
Ser Negro, Indígena, o una persona de color y vivir con una discapacidad, los desafíos para la persona se multiplican y las oportunidades que la sociedad pueda ofrecer se disminuyen. Los autores de esta edición nos cuentan sus historias de racismo y discapacidad.
Individuals share their stories about the unique social challenges and limited opportunities that come with being Black, Indigenous, or a person of color living with a disability.
We encourage everyone is who is connected to the disability community to be a part of this event!
Disability Concerns has developed a book club resource based on John Swinton's book Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Live of Christians with Mental Health Challenges.
Today we remember advocate Betty Van Deemter, revisiting an article written awhile ago by her friend and fellow advocate, Hank Kuntz.
Durante el largo periodo de aislamiento impuesto durante la pandemia del virus corona, las personas con discapacidades vieron que algunos impedimentos para la participación fueron en realidad eliminadas. Los artículos en esta edición nos narran algunas historias de accesos inesperados.
During the pandemic, people with disabilities found that some barriers to participation actually were removed. The articles in this issue tell a few of those stories of unexpected access.
We encourage all churches to recognize Disability Awareness Sunday this October to demonstrate that all members of their congregation are valued. Find resources here!
장기간 고립되고 격리된 코비드-19 감염증 사태는, 한편으로는 일부 장애인의 참여를 막는 장벽을 제거해 주었습니다. 이번호에서는 예기치 않은 접속에 대한 몇 가지 이야기를 나눕니다.
This article outlines the role of the church advocate and provides the steps from considering being a church advocate to working within the role.