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02/21/2026

Happy National Caregivers Day! Caregivers come in many forms. Whether you're assisting a loved one with daily tasks, acting as a caregiving professional, or offering help to someone with a disability, a chronic health problem, or declining health due to aging - your support makes a big difference.

While we hope you feel seen and appreciated for all you do, we know that caregiving can be both rewarding and demanding. Taking care of yourself is just as important as the care you provide. Check out our website for resources that can support you as a caregiver: https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/aging-disability-services/pages/caregivers.aspx

02/20/2026

02/19/2026

Yes, we do! 👏

02/15/2026

Art has the power to change perspectives. This isn't just a symbol; it’s a movement. Who says a wheelchair can’t be a work of art? 🎨💪 Let’s keep pushing boundaries and showing the world our true colors 😃👍

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02/15/2026

This. 💯

02/14/2026

HASL will reopen 9:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.

02/13/2026

02/11/2026

02/08/2026

The sign language performers for !

Deaf artists Fred Beam and Julian Ortiz will sign the pregame performances.

The Show will feature a multilingual signing program incorporating Puerto Rican Sign Language with performer Celimar Rivera Cosme. nbcsports.com/asl

01/29/2026

Nine states are once again attacking one of the most fundamental disability rights: the right to live in the community.

Texas and eight other states are asking a court to block protections that prevent unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. These protections have been affirmed by the Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. and have empowered disabled people to receive services in the most integrated setting appropriate rather than being segregated or forced into institutions.

If this lawsuit succeeds, it could weaken enforcement of disability civil rights and push more people into segregated settings against their will.

Disabled people fought too hard for community integration to lose it now.
Learn how you can help stop it: https://bit.ly/section-504-attack

01/23/2026

Ed Robert’s is considered to be the founder of the I independent living movement.

Today we celebrate Ed Roberts on what would have been his 87th birthday — a day we call Ed Roberts Day. Ed Roberts is considered one of the fathers of the disability rights movement. His area of focus was independent living, work that — like Ed Roberts’ impact — still lives on to this day.

Ed Roberts was admitted to Berkley in 1962, where he had trouble finding housing that would accommodate the 800-pound iron lung that he slept in at night. The director of the campus health service offered him a room in an empty wing of the Cowell Hospital. Roberts accepted on the condition that the area where he lived be treated as dormitory space, not a medical facility. His admission broke the ice for other students with disabilities who joined him over the next few years at what evolved into the Cowell Residence Program.

Ed Roberts would go on to have a huge influence on Berkeley creating the first Centers for Independent Livings (CIL), the first independent living service and advocacy program run by and for people with disabilities.

Now, CILs help disabled people across the country access independent living. In 1976 Roberts was appointed as the director of the California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation by then-governor Jerry Brown.

Ed Roberts' influence and impact on the disability rights movement cannot be overstated.

ID: Black and white portrait of Ed Roberts, with the years 1939-1995 and text that says "remembering Ed Roberts".