
Disability Network Southwest Michigan Meet our 2009-2010 Disability Network Board of Directors. Not pictured are Patti Townsend and Leah Williams.

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Wow! Our Independent Living Team is growing...check out our website to see what we are doing at www.dnswm.org.

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Welcome Tracy Cleveland. Tracy is joining Disability Network in our satelite office in Berrien County. Tracy is looking forward to empowering people with disabilties in Berrien & Cass counties! Welcome to Disability Network

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Check out this article in the Kalamazoo Gazette regarding the traffic light at Fletcher and West Main!
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— The blinking light at West Main Street and Fletcher Avenue will once again be a fully functioning traffic signal by Sunday afternoon.

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Good News! Thanks to the collaboration of Disability Network Disability Rights Advocate Paul Ecklund, the retired Fletcher Traffic Signal Committee (Dan Drake, Fred Sitkins and Denise Hartsough) and the staff at M-DOT - the traffic light at M-43 and Fletcher Ave will be re-activiated within a few weeks! Thanks to all community members who worked on this issue!

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Welcome Russell Bates, who is joing Disability Network in becoming the new Disability Program Navigator at Michigan Works! in Berrien County. Also, welcome Jackie Curtis - an Independent Living Specialist serving Berrien & Cass Counties. It is great to have you both with us!

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Congratulations to our Fund Development Intern from last semester, Jenna Blanton, on her new job with the Conservation Corp in Fresno, CA. Good Luck Jenna!

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Congrats to Tom Schaberg - Disability Network Volunteer of the Year. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to the Ramp Up program.

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Check out the newest edition of The LINK newsletter. If you would like to receive The LINK electronically, email Michele at mmcgowen@dnswm.org
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One of the ways we stay in touch with our constituents and provide education to the community is through our quarterly newsletter, The LINK. We will soon begin sending out The LINK to people via ...

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Welcome Joanne Johnson - our newest Information & Referral staff. Joanne is also an MSW student at WMU and currenlty completing her internship at Family and Children's Services. Welcome Joanne!

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Welcome Jennifer Parsons - Disability Network's MSW intern from WMU! We are very excited to have you here with us.

Disability Network Southwest Michigan Check out this great clip of the newest in the "The More You Know" series on NBC examining our attitudes and assumptions about people with disabilities:
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"If all you see is the disability...you might be missing a lot. People with disabilities are just people." - Meredith Vieira, NBC News

































