SLN News
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OUR Stories…OUR Voices: Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month
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Join the Illinois Self Advocacy Alliance to recognize and celebrate May as Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. “Join us for “OUR Stories…OUR Voices.” as we spotlight AAPI Disabled…
What Your Disabled Friends Want You To Know About ‘Going Back To Normal’ Post-Vaccine
Check out this amazing piece on Huffpost! What Your Disabled Friends Want You To Know About ‘Going Back To Normal’ Post-Vaccine “As more people are getting vaccinated and many states…
Supporting and Empowering our Families: Using Charting the LifeCourse
Please join us for this post-conference session on June 23rd as part of the 2021 8th National Sibling Leadership Network Conference! Register on our Conference main page! June 23 (Wednesday) 4-6pmPT/5-7pmMT/6-8pmCT/7-9pmET…
Supporting Siblings of Children with Disabilities
The Illinois Early Learning Project recently published this great article about sibling inclusion and it highlights one of our board members, Nikki Donnelly! Check out Supporting Siblings of Children with…
Future Planning: The Journey Forward
Please join us for this post-conference session on June 22nd as part of the 2021 8th National Sibling Leadership Network Conference! Register on our Conference main page! June 22 (Tuesday)…
Sibling Support in International Context
Please join us for this post-conference session on June 24th as part of the 2021 8th National Sibling Leadership Network Conference! Register on our Conference main page! June 24 (Thursday)…
Mental Health Awareness Month 2021
Sending out a special love to all siblings this Mental Health Awareness month! Check out some resources from National Alliance on Mental Illness this month for some very useful tools.…
The The Sibling Project Survey
The Sibling Project is a research initiative led by a team of investigators based at the Telethon Kids Institute. Check out their survey to help improve the way mental health…
BIPOC Sibling Roundtable 4
It’s time for the BIPOC Sibling Roundtable 4 on 5/18! Who is attending? The 4th of a series of roundtable discussions featuring the experiences, insights, stories and voices of Black,…
The SLN Interviews John & Dan Carmichael of GT Independence
Check out our exclusive interview with brothers John & Dan Carmichael of GT Independence! In celebration of our upcoming conference, we sat down with John and Dan of GT Independence…