The 724 Network Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The 724 Network Podcast features the staff of Disability Options Network's Greensburg office. Each week, we will cover important topics from disability rights to independent living.
Katie Smith and Mike Matthews kicks off our new series about gaining empowerment through self-awareness and disability awareness. Katie and Mike shares their different disability experiences and how they arrived to awareness in their journeys as people with disabilities. Rather you were born with a disability or acquired one later in life, today's episode will educate and encourage you.
The 724 Network crew discuss the Independent Living core service called skills training. Centers for Independent Living offers a style of skills training from staff with disabilities. Tune in to learn how we can equip you with the skills to live indepedently.
Advocacy is more than a core service and more than just a motto with Centers For Independent Living –- it is at the heart of everything we do here in the Independent Living movement! We advocate for individual rights, for systems change, and for equal treatment for all people with disabilities! Today, the crew talks about the different types of advocacy. Plus, we give updates and ways to advocate for home and community based services by telling our audience about the Better Care, Better Jobs Act that would increase funding to attendant care programs for people with disabilities. Tune in to discover how you can take action!
The whole gang is here to discuss why peer support was important in their lives with disabilities and why others should seek out mentors who have been there. Peer support is a core service of Centers for Independent Living.
On today's episode, the 724 Network crew introduces themselves and lays out what Independent Living is all about. The podcast team joining us today is Katie Smith, Mike Adams, Max Colecchi and Mike Matthews. Tune in to meet our crew and hear about our disability experience.