by Jane McClure Rick Cardenas is remembered as a compassionate, fearless and larger-than-life leader of Minnesota’s disability community. Cardenas, 79, died March 13 after sustaining a stroke. For years Cardenas…
Author: Access Press Staff
Grant provides mentors, support for Macalester students
by Grace Ellsworth Macalester College students with disabilities find peer support through the MentorUP: Mentoring Program for Students with Disabilities, which pairs students with disabilities in a mentor-mentee relationship. Participants…
Vaccines ramp up statewide
by Access Press staff The opening of vaccination lists to more Minnesotans, and easing of some COVID-19 restrictions are welcomed by many people with disabilities. Still, federal and state health…
Tim's Desk -- April 2021
This is testimony presented to the Minnesota Legislature in March: I was diagnosed quadriplegic in 1974 when I was 21 after diving off an unfamiliar dock into a shallow lake…
The Illusion of Choice in Integration, Inclusion, and Person-Centered Planning
by Kathy Ware, RN, PHN Person-centered planning has an elephant in the room that is being ignored. The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) website states, “everyone who receives long-term…
Brick's retirement marks end of an era in Minnesota
It’s the end of an era in Minnesota disability circles with the retirement of Bob Brick: co-founder of the Minnesota Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (MNCCD), public policy expert, board…