A Place to Worship

The Special Gathering is a ministry for people with mental handicaps. The ministry holds weekly chapel services at churches in Daytona, DeLand, Titusville, Cocoa, Melbourne, and Vero Beach, Florida, as well as Walterboro, South Carolina. They also offer instructional classes tailored to attendees' special needs, help them engage in advocacy, and encourage fellowship through Camp Agape in Vero Beach, field trips, and socials. The Special Gathering publishes a newsletter called Connecting Point. For more information such as times and locations of services, go to http://www.nbbd.com/npr/specialgathering/.

Heavenly Home: Doing the "Wright" Thing

Based in Cocoa, Heavenly Home Health Aid is a faith-based agency that provides caregiving services to people with developmental disabilities and Medicaid HCBS waivers in Brevard County. The services help clients have a sense of independence and remain in their home. Megan McLaughlin Wright and her husband Jason cofounded Heavenly Home five years ago. Some caregivers are available for 24-hour service, and if needed, clients can reach Heavenly Home at the after-hours emergency line. Always looking for new caregivers, Heavenly Home was featured in an article in the June 16 issue of Hometown News. For more information, go to http://www.heavenlyhomehealthaid.com/.

 

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Amputee Resource Guide

The Amputee Resource Guide is a new Facebook page that was created to share information for amputees. The page contains a link to a North Carolina travel guide for people with disabilities (https://amputeeresourceguide.com/access-north-carolina-travel-guide/). (I went to North Carolina for a few days in March; please refer to my March 8 post "My Time in Durham, North Carolina" for details.) More resources will be added to the Guide as time goes on. The Amputee Resource Guide Facebook page is located at https://www.facebook.com/AmpResGuide/.

diversAbility Job Fair to Be Held June 13

In partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation, CareerSource Brevard's Palm Bay office is hosting the diversAbility Job Fair from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, June 13. This event, a member of the Florida Unique Abilities company (www.floridauniqueabilities.org), is open to people with special needs. Employers such as Brevard Achievement Center, Goodwill, and Veterans Assembled Electronics will be participating in diversAbility. Job fair attendees should bring copies of their resume and dress in a professional manner. For more information, call CareerSource Brevard at (321) 504-7600 or go to https://careersourcebrevard.com/event/diversability-job-fair-palm-bay.

 

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"Field"ing a Traumatic Brain Injury

Jennifer Miller Field is a motivational speaker who once aspired to compete as an equestrian at the Olympics. When she was 17, Field was in a nearly fatal car accident that caused her to be in a coma and unable to walk, talk, and eat on her own due to brain damage. With help from her mother as well as treatments and therapies, she took ten years to regain her physical independence and graduate from college as recounted in their book From Blue Ribbon to Code Blue. Field established the J Field Foundation, which provides funds to people with physical and mental handicaps for alternative therapies not covered by insurance. Field briefly described her life in a letter in the May/June issue of the magazine Angels on Earth. For more information about this inspirational woman, go to http://jenniferfield.org/.

 

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