Time is running out to secure a room at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown Hotel.  Take advantage and get the best rates by booking your room before March 11th. If this is your first time at DPS, you can find out more about the program, hill visits, and the Penn Quarter area by heading over…

The Sibling Leadership Network is conducting an online survey about the support needs of siblings with disabilities. Please share your perspective as a sibling through the survey.  Also, feel free to encourage your other siblings and family members to complete the survey as well.  The survey is available in English and Spanish.

Check out this upcoming webinar on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Dementia: Experiences of a Family Advocate and Promising Practices.  This webinar will provide participants with information on personal experiences, advocacy efforts, and helpful practices for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/D) and dementia. Mary Hogan will speak about her personal experience as guardian…

The Sibling Leadership Network promotes March 1st as a Day of Mourning to remember disabled victims of filicide–disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. For the last four years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and other disability rights organizations have come…

In December 2014, Congress passed the ABLE Act and President Obama signed it into law. This new law allows families and individuals with disabilities to save money for qualified disability-related expenses while maintaining access to Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid. Next, each state will need to set up an ABLE Account program so their residents…

The 2015 Disability Policy Seminar is your best opportunity to cultivate new champions on Capitol Hill and advance the grassroots movement for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This unique event, held from April 13-15 in Washington, DC, offers you the opportunity to come together for two days with other advocates, individuals with I/DD,…

Get excited for one of the 2015 SLN Conference keynote speakers, Michelle “Sheli” Reynolds. A sibling of a younger brother with developmental disabilities, Sheli brings both personal and professional experience toward family advocacy. She currently serves as the Director of the Missouri Family to Family Health Information Center and is also the co—principal investigator on…

The Brothers and Sisters Project Do you or your sibling have Down Syndrome? Are you and your sibling both at least 18 years old? Would you and your sibling like to share your experience with the world? Then the Brothers and Sisters Project could use your help. The Brothers and Sisters Project is the senior…

Eric McVay has been a dedicated board member of the Sibling Leadership Network (SLN) since February 2013.  Eric serves as a representative of Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), the national self-advocacy organization for people with developmental disabilities.  Eric has the important role of sharing information between the SLN and SABE as our organizations work together to…