Maryann Preble speaks about her trip to “The County” for the 2022 SUFU Conference. Maryann is a long time, proud SUFU member who lives in Augusta, Maine. Maryann is SUFU’s 2021 Paige Barton award winner while Kile Pelletier is SUFU’s 2022 Paige Barton award winner....
Stephanie Pelletier, a Self-Advocate, and current Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, lives in Fort Kent, Maine explained: If I had a chance to go to Washington D.C. and talk to Democrats and Republicans, I would say that we need to eliminate the Marriage Penalty...
My Journey to Guardianship by Rose Hi. I’m Rose. I am working on being my own guardianship. This is how and what I had to get my own guardianship. I started by talking to my guardians. I am glad that my guardians agree that I am ready. We then talked to a lawyer. We...
Hi there Folks, I’m here telling you about all the hard work I did this year and as a result I got the Marcia Rosen Award for the Central Maine Chatper. Staff usually don’t get recognized in this way or get this award, but it was a big honor to Receive the...
Hi there I’m Eric McVay from Bangor and recently I was able to attend the Special Olympics USA Games in Florida. I am a self-advocate and part of the Central Maine Chapter of Speaking Up For Us. I want to share with you my experience of training and going to the...