Special Hope Foundation Grantee, Dr. Clarissa Kripke, recently spoke on a panel for Support for Families in San Francisco, and told this story:
“A man was going around doing really challenging things, like going up to law enforcement and grabbing them, laying down in front of cars, a whole variety of things that are quite [Read more…]
Bernie Sanders’ enthusiastic legion of young, independent and progressive supporters jammed rallies and concerts in a big way. But did they vote?
“The young (voters), the poor ones and those with no party preference were Bernie’s key supporters … and they didn’t show up,” said Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., who [Read more…]
The Special Hope Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Change How You See, See How You Change, which tells the story of our friend and grantee Rick Guidotti and his organization, POSITIVE EXPOSURES.
Rick Guidotti, an award-winning former fashion photographer, has spent years [Read more…]
Lynne O’Hara, Katie Beckett Advocacy Award recipient
The Special Hope Foundation is proud to announce that our Founder and Executive Director, Lynne O’Hara, was awarded the Katie Beckett Advocacy Award at AADMD’s annual conference in Chicago this past weekend. The award is given [Read more…]
The Special Hope Foundation and the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD) are partnering together in sponsorship of a Request for Proposal.
Research, Design and/or Integrate Diversity/Cultural Competency Curricula in Healthcare for the I/DD Population: A Partnership with Self-Advocates
People with Down Syndrome have complex health issues, but few fail to receive recommended health care. According to a 1999 study less than 50% of patients with Down syndrome were evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea, atlanto-axial instability, hearing loss and vision loss; and only 50 to 80% of adults [Read more…]
In 1998, award-winning fashion photographer Rick Guidoti turned his world upside down – he stopped working in the fashion industry and created the not-for-profit organization, Positive Exposure, devoted to celebrating the beauty of human diversity.
More than fifteen years later, Positive Exposure, in collaboration with individuals living [Read more…]
Photo courtesy of Positive Exposure in collaboration with the Golisano Foundation.
“The minute our daughter was born, the hospital room went silent. Where there should have been ‘Congratulations’ and ‘It’s a Girl’, there were awkward [Read more…]
Too many medical professionals think of them in terms of “function” or “dysfunction.”
Lily Parra, for example, is 4 months old and needs a heart. But there was a small amount of fluid on her brain that might lead to disability, and she was [Read more…]
How can we help supported decision-making work? How can healthcare access be improved for people with disabilities?
These are questions that the Special Hope Foundation strives to answer. So we produced a video white paper to answer these questions. The video white paper was inspired by the Special Hope Foundations ground-breaking [Read more…]