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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!
Zoie Sheets shares her thoughts on the urgency of creating accessible faith spaces.
The question is not “What do we do to help this person belong?” but rather, “How can this community better reveal to this person that they already belong?”
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!
For Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers, Terry DeYoung offers an editorial reflection on the intersection of disability and the arts.
In this issue of Breaking Barriers, people with and without disabilities share their creative expression in poetry, story, song, and image.
For Breaking Barriers Summer 2021, Becky Jones shares about her work as an art therapist, working with many clients who live with disabilities and how art is a vehicle for personal expression.
For Breaking Barriers 2021, Kyla shares about how being involved in theatre and the arts helps her navigate and manage her anxiety.
Cassie leads worship for First Reformed Church. She wrote this song with a hymn-like structure with these core themes: solitude, community, and mission.
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.
Writing free-verse poems during the first year following his wife's death was cathartic for Ivan. He has shared a few of his poems in the Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers Newsletter.
Be encouraged by these creative expressions shared by residents of the Brothers and Sisters Homes in Holland, MI.
The visuals in a worship space work together to communicate our faith values and our awareness of the triune God. These resources reflect on the creative and technical sides of creating vivid visuals for worship.
Position opening for Classis Lake Erie Safe Church and Disability Concerns Coordinator with a $1,500 annual stipend.
After almost 15 years serving as Director of Disability Concerns Ministry for the CRCNA, Mark Stephenson has announced his retirement.
Cara Milne, a Disability Concerns Regional Advocate, shares her experience of living through Covid-19 as a community. Her encouragement is "to take note of what is working better than it was before and protect that."
Meet Cara Milne, our Disability Concerns Regional Advocate for Classis Alberta South and Saskatchewan.
Cara Milne's book Noticed, Known and Missed focuses on building community for people with disabilities.
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.
Here are some resources that Canadians can use in advocating to protect the conscience of healthcare workers when there are requests for assisted death (MAID).
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.