What’s Happening

Join us on July 30, 2009
7th Annual Buddy Walk!

Click here to learn how you can win exciting prizes by promoting awareness and inclusion of people with Down syndrome!

Inter-Agency Picnic!   July 30, 2009 at Lincoln Drive Park. Everyone’s invited - people with disabilities, their families, friends, neighbors and co-workers!  For more information, download the flyer.

Summer Mentorship Program for Prospective Students with Disabilities: NDSU is sponsoring a pilot project to encourage and prepare students with disabilities to pursue a university degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

The program will run July 6 - 10, 2009 at the NDSU campus.  For more information, download the
brochure
or email Sivapalan Gajan at
s.gajan@ndsu.edu.

The Latest

FREE WORKSHOP: Five Days of Film-making is an exciting and empowering project for young people.  It will give them the opportunity to experience the magic of creating a new world, a new vision with their own hands. 

The workshop is a seven-day event, during which students ages 12-18, with and without disabilities, will learn to make their own fiction film from start to finish: brainstorming, writing the script together, organizing the preproduction plans, shooting and acting in the film, and then postproduction editing.  The workshop ends with the film’s projection for family and friends. 

Applications are currently being taken to participate in this workshop.  It is free, but is limited to 15 participants

Legislative Issues

2009 Disabilities Related North Dakota Legislation: Final Update

Take a moment to download and read the June 29, 2009 issue of the
Capitol Insider.
It is a great source for your weekly news and information on disability public policy related to mental retardation, cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

Publications

Read the July 2009 issue of
RX Connector (a publication of the North Dakota Insurance Department.

North Dakota’s SHIC TALK (Senior Health Insurance Counseling) newsletter for October 2008.

The Social Security Administration now has an electronic newletter.  Read the latest issue here.

Swine Flu Info: Download this flyer from Grand Forks Public Health - Tips for staying healthy.

The Arc, Upper Valley
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Grand Forks ND 58208
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(701) 772-2195 Fax