March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Living with a brain injury is challenging. Each individual’s case is unique, and for this reason, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for people to move on with their lives once they are faced with a new disability....

    Center for People With Disabilities (CPWD) is sad to acknowledge the passing of Ed Milewski in February 2023. Ed became part of the CPWD family after we assisted him in transitioning out of nursing care to living independently in the community. Prior to...

  March is Women’s History Month, and March 8th celebrates International Women’s Day. Some of the most influential leaders in the Independent Living Movement have been women, and we at CPWD want to honor the legacy these powerful women have created in shaping...

  The Center for People With Disabilities (CPWD) is a Center for Independent Living with a mission to assist all people with any disability in overcoming barriers to Independent Living. Many of the barriers people with disabilities face are either directly or...

The Center for People with Disabilities is a service provider for the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) through which we provide Benefits Counseling. If you need help with benefits counseling, contact [email protected] and we will get you connected with a...

In 2021, CPWD created a staff-inspired IDEA Committee (Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Action). The mission of CPWD’s IDEA Committee is to foster a culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion while actively challenging and dismantling systemic racism...

While the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, preventing labor discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or nationality, it wasn’t until 1972-73 that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act was drafted. This was the first significant piece of modern legislation concerning people with disabilities.

In July, CPWD staff participated in and spearheaded an International Conference on disabilities in Armenia. The conference was also supported by the European Union, the Armenian Association of Social Workers, and included a partnership with Unison, the only Armenian...

We’ve got some amazing things happening in our Beyond Vision Program. Right now, people with visual impairment and blindness are getting white cane and other Orientation and Mobility (O & M) training so they can stay independent and live full lives in our...

The Obama Administration has always said that they support ADAPT’s goals for Olmstead, community integration and to end the Medicaid institutional bias; but activists say this meeting on the Community Integration Act is a turning point in the President saying he...