Beaverbrook STEP, Inc.

01/01/2026

May you dance your way into a healthy, happy, and joy-filled New Year surrounded by good friends 💫 🥰

12/25/2025

From our family to yours, we send our very best wishes for a healthy, love-filled Merry Christmas! ❤️🎄❤️

12/21/2025

Wishing you warmth and light on this shortest day of the year! Happy Winter Solstice 💛💛💛 (we amplify these images floating around social media for your inspiration).

12/19/2025

Taking a break from our holiday posts to amplify this important message that our choice of words always matters!

12/14/2025

Sharing this image (floating around social media) with warm blessings of peace, love, and light to our dear friends and neighbors who celebrate Hanukkah 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

12/07/2025

As the holiday season begins, some of our management and admin staff send you their very best wishes for a warm and love -filled month ❄️🤍❄️ stay tuned for more celebration photos 💫💛

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from Beaverbrook STEP!! 💛🧡 Saved this adorable video (from our Halloween party) of a pumpkin dancer to send sweet and joy-filled wishes to you and your family. Wait till the end for the best part 😊

11/24/2025

Many of our folks traveled to Norwood on Saturday to the amazing self-advocacy conference by Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong; and had an fabulous time! Here are a few sample photos. We send lots of gratitude to all of the leaders that created this incredible day!!! 💖💫

11/17/2025

As many of our advocates look forward to the MASS Advocacy Conference later this week, we sadly learn that the world has lost a disability justice warrior, Alice Wong. We know her legacy and writings as a fierce advocate of disability rights will live on and continue to inspire us all. 🧡💛🧡 See the first comment for the letter she wrote that she wanted shared upon her passing… Alice, rest in power and pride!

For more information about Alice Wong and her projects, see http://DisabilityVisibilityProject.com.

Access Living is crestfallen today to learn of the passing of the incredible disability oracle and community builder, Alice Wong. Both sage and down-to-earth, Alice has been an absolute treasure of the human experience of our time. A disability justice activist, a writer, a steadfast friend and lover of cats and good food, Alice founded the Disability Visibility Project, an oral history project with StoryCorps. Through this project, Alice helped countless disabled people of all walks of life share their personal stories.

A 2024 MacArthur Fellow, Alice wrote a memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life (2022), and edited several collected works on disability, including Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (2020) and Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (2024). Each new staffer at Access Living receives a copy of her Disability Visibility book.

It is difficult to imagine today’s disability landscape without Alice’s guiding wisdom, many groundbreaking projects, and relentless gathering of storytellers. An essential part of Alice’s genius lay in simply building relationships with disabled people from all walks of life. She was a tough and courageous co-conspirator, the true embodiment of “big cat energy.” May her wisdom, humor and humanity reside in all of us as we carry on the struggle.

Image is of Alice, an Asian American woman smiling with red lipstick, an undercut hairstyle, and a blue gown with geometric designs. She is sitting in her power chair and wearing her ventilator tube. In the background are orange and black tiger stripes to reflect her “big cat energy” and to honor her memoir, Year of the Tiger. Above her is one of her quotes: “Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance and joy.” Below the quote, it says “Alice Wong 1974-2025.”

11/13/2025

Did you know that today (November 13th) is World Kindness Day? We are appreciative of the many ways kindness shows up in our community! What might you do today to share a little extra kindness? 💛💛💛

More about this day from a quick internet search: “World Kindness Day was first celebrated on November 13, 1997, when several humanitarian groups came together and made a Declaration of Kindness.” And “Celebrate by pledging to do at least one intentional act of kindness on that day to benefit someone else. It can be as straightforward or as involved as you like. No matter what you decide to do, your act of kindness will unite you with others dedicated to changing the world one kind act at a time.” 💐💗

11/11/2025

We send our thanks to all of our Veterans. We are grateful for your service ❤️🤍💙

11/05/2025

Many of our individuals are counting the days down to this amazing conference! 🙂💖 And Beaverbrook STEP is proud to again be an official sponsor. If you want to join us there, the deadline to register is this Monday …

Saturday, November 22, 2025 at Sheraton Norwood meet with self-advocate peers +make your IDEAS count! Registration ends Monday, November 10.