My Rights My Life Is an inclusive and accessible healthy relationships and safer sexuality curriculum for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It contains 30 weekly, one-hour classes on healthy relationships, consent, dating, boundaries, Internet safety, safer sexuality, and other topics. SAFE Disability Services staff is available to provide training on how to facilitate…
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Justice Revisited: Take a Tour of our Refreshed Website
By Dianne King Welcome to SAFE’s refreshed Promoting Justice website. In addition to continuing to provide a wealth of information for anyone living or working with child victims with disabilities, we’ve added new sections, updated content, and improved the site’s navigation. New material includes: Roll Call Trainings: Five brief training videos for first responders and…
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Disability Day of Mourning
By Emily Yisa, Disability Services Project Coordinator and Educator Every year on March 1, the disability community comes together to remember people with disabilities who were murdered by their caregivers and families, often their parents. On this Disability Day of Mourning, on-line vigils will be held all over the world. In the last five years,…
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Families: Coping with the pandemic when you have schoolkids with disabilities
By Maggie Suter, SAFE Disability Services Educator/Trainer On Friday, March 13, 2020, the Harikrishnan boys arrived home from school on the bus as usual, excited that spring break was officially here. This meant nine days in a row with no school! What no one in the Harikrishnan household knew at the time was that those…
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