A total of six organizations that serve the developmentally disabled in Newton County have requested applications for funding from the county SB 40 board, also known as the Newton County Developmental Disabilities Service Board. 

This will be the first funding cycle for the organization, which has hundreds of thousands of dollars to allocate after voters approved the $.06 per $100 assessed valuation property tax in November 2013. 

The board was appointed last November by the co

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Today is St. Patrick's Day and I wanted to find a cute, inspiring story with ties to Ireland to share. But when I started searching for something warm, fuzzy, and Irish -  what I ended up finding was far more profound. 

Last year, Trinity College in Dublin performed a study called Advancing Years, Different Challenges to highlight the serious, complex and often times unique challenges facing Ireland’s intellectual disability population as they age.

Because these individuals are aging. And a lot of them are aging - all at once. 

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If you’ve opened an Internet browser in the last day or so, chances are you’ve seen the story of Samuel Forrest and his sweet baby boy Leo.

Forrest is originally from Auckland, New Zealand but currently lives in Armenia where he and his wife were happily anticipating the birth of their first child.

On January 21^st baby Leo arrived and much to everyone’s surprise, he was born with Down Syndrome.

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Each and every month our team has a roundtable meeting to share and discuss timely news stories and articles relevant to our industry.

In our January gathering, one of the hot topics was self-employment and the rise of entrepreneurism in the ID/DD community.

An article in the Fargo Sun Times titled, More Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Own, Operate Businesses really got us thinking.

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