by Avery Olmstead | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
Hi Everybody, For personal & health reasons, I’ve decided that I need to leave my position with SUFU. Everybody has been great & it has been an honor & a privilege for me to be a part of this organization. And just because I won’t be working for SUFU, I’m...
by Avery Olmstead | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog
Hi Everybody, Happy 2016 & I hope your holidays were great! 🙂 To start the new year off with a bang, I wanted to let you know what the Legislative Chapter (Currently: Tucker Conley, Chris Heywood, Robbie Garland, Marco Orlando, and Abbott Philson) has been...
by Avery Olmstead | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog
Hi All, Last week, I attended the 2nd Supported Decision Making Coalition meeting, put on by Disability Rights Maine. Supported Decision Making means having the freedom of choice (that I talked about last week) to be able to ask for advice in making your own...
by Avery Olmstead | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog
Hi All, Those 3 Words are… Freedom of Choice. The freedom to choose what you want to do, when you want to do it, and who you want to do it with. The freedom to choose the issues that you want to advocate for, not what someone else thinks is important for you to...
by Avery Olmstead | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Hi All, The original topic that I was going to blog about this week is taking me longer to research so I’m saving that for next week. Instead, I thought I’d take this opportunity to ask about how you feel about the blogs I’ve written so far. I have...