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We advocate and embody independence and equality for all people with disabilities.

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Communication Skills Workshop

Zoom

Come learn how to communicate better with family, co-workers, and friends. Learn skills about how to be assertive and tips for living in a neurotypically-centric world. Come watch some interesting videos that will help teach us new skills.    

A woman in a wheelchair wears a beaming smile as she raises her hands in the air.

FREE Adaptive Zumba

Zoom

Join us for a high-energy, fun-packed session of adaptive Zumba.

Free

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Workshop on Traveling with Kisha Stover

Zoom

Join Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2022, Keisha Stover, on a presentation for traveling around the city. Learn about metro access and other ride-sharing platforms. Discuss barriers challenges and solutions for traveling to your favorite places.      

Person completing an Advance Health Care Directive.

Health Care Decision Making, Advance Directives, and the MOLST Form

Zoom

This presentation will provide general guidance and information regarding the process of making health care decisions, including how the Health Care Decisions Act, advance directives, and the Maryland MOLST form are used to carry out patients' health care decisions.

Lighting Your Path

Zoom

Braille and Jaws Resources. How to get connected and where to sign up for classes. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85490019589?pwd=ZFk4aVlBNGs3MmV6NTZ4WnNlbnJTQT09 Meeting ID: 854 9001 9589 Passcode: 334559 One tap mobile  3017158592

Budget Seminar

Zoom

Your Money Matters: Managing your income to Debt Ratio, and saving for everything in between presented by MD Money Café.

Creative Cooking Class

Zoom

Heart Health Month. Love your heart is a lovely discussion about the best foods to eat to improve heart functions and lower cholesterol presented by Prince Georges County Department of Health Nutrition Toolbox. We will be making a salmon salad, and the staff from the nutrition toolbox will be dissecting the calorie count.  

Housing Seminar

Zoom

Affordable Housing  Part II: How to Follow-up on Waitlist Status and learning follow-up steps when you get approved for a unit.

Lighting Your Path

Zoom

Amplify your orientation and mobility. Learning new ways to enhance how you can be more independent at home and in your community. Speakers to be announced.   Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85490019589?pwd=ZFk4aVlBNGs3MmV6NTZ4WnNlbnJTQT09 Meeting ID: 854 9001 9589 Passcode: 334559 One tap mobile  3017158592

Women’s Tea: The Tea & The Talk

Zoom

In Honor of Women's Month, all are welcome to join us we will be celebrating (T) transformation (E) empowerment (A)Advocacy, and how the very words have bought about change, and growth, and promoted positive self-image of people with disabilities. Speakers to be announced.  

Housing Seminar

Zoom

Navigating the online housing application process. Some places take paper applications, but more and more properties are moving to the online application process. how savvy are you? We will take you step-by-step, through how to figure it out.

Movie Advocacy Night “The theory of everything” 

Zoom

Come watch the hit movie "The Theory Of Everything" which is a biopic about physicist Stephen Hawking who changed the face of science forever all while dealing with Motor Neurone disease. This is the story of how he overcame obstacles to get his Ph.D., become one of the most successful scientists ever, and have a[…]

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