Hi this Jon I’m here to talk to you about meeting in Person for the first time for the SUFU Staff since Covid started. Instead of being over Zoom we got together in Waterville. It was fun to meet Stacy Giberson in person for the first time and having that All-Staff Meeting. It was very interesting. We went over the Calendar Schedule the summer and we are going to try some new things out and see if they will work. I liked the Topics we…
On Tuesday December 14th, representatives from Bangor Savings Bank came to our statewide meeting to talk about Able Accounts. Able Accounts are now available in Maine! To learn more about Able Accounts you can go to the Able National Resource Center. To learn about Able Accounts offered locally head to Bangor Savings Bank The link for the recording of our Statewide Meeting is here.
If you missed the Speaking Up For Us Annual Meeting and wanted to see who the award winners were we have just finished uploading the video. What a fun evening of celebrating the last year, and the accomplishments of so many!
On Tuesday we had our Board Candidate Forum, for new candidates for the Speaking Up For Us Board of Directors. If you were unable to make it but would like to watch that meeting we did record it. You can find the forum here. We hope to have written statements from the other two candidates that could not make that we can share with members. Laurie Coldwell will be visiting your chapters soon to privately record your vote for the board of directors. The results…
On Tuesday we welcomed our friends from Green Mountain Self Advocates and SARTAC to talk about the history of the ADA. The Recording of that is below:
Over the past weekend there were several articles or news stories done that are either about self-advocates or may affect self-advocates. We wanted to share them with you. First up is a story about Pine Tree Camp that many attend. This story has The Bangor Chapter’s Brian Harnish in it as he shares about what he likes about Pine Tree Camp and what they are doing this summer. We hope to hear more from Brian in the future! Check out that article here about Pine Tree…
