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Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical and mental disabilities, and other special needs. For more than 85 years, Easter Seals has been offering help and hope to children and adults living with disabilities, and to the families who love them. Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter Seals creates life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in their communities. Support children and adults with disabilities at http://www.easterseals.com/.
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At the core of Easter Seals is a common passion for caring, shared by its 140 staff and thousands of volunteers, and by those who support its mission. This heart-felt desire to serve children, youth and young adults with physical disabilities and their families, is what Easter Seals is all about.
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Easter Seals Project ACTION is pleased to announce the teams for the 2008 Mobility Planning Services Institute, and there's a new team to add since the selections were first identified in this space last week. ESPAwelcomes theDistrict of Columbia, completing a 22-team roster. You can read more about the April MPS Institute in the current issue of the Update, now posted online. This issue ... features Metro's accessibility forum in Washington, D.C., APTA’s Universal Accessibility Standards Program, a celebration of independent living in Hampton Roads, Va., and Maryland Transit Administration's accessibility initiatives.
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Easter Seals is currently planning its new office space and expects to move in no later that February 2009. The lease runs for 12 years. ProTen Realty Group represented Easter Seals, while John Dempsey of CB Richard Ellis represented Sears Tower. U.S. Equities Realty assumed leasing and management responsibility for Sears Tower in April 2007 and is coordinating Easter Seals' move into the building.
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This July 4th holiday, Easter Seals is launching Full Participation for All at http://www.easterseals.com/sign , a new online petition and campaign to make sure people with disabilities have equal opportunities to be active participants in society. Easter Seals is circulating the petition in communities across the country, increasing awareness of the challenges faced by 54 million Americans with disabilities and encouraging lawmakers to take action on these important issues. The non-profit organization will ... share the petition with policy makers at all levels of federal, state and local government.
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Register now for the next distance learning event of Easter Seals Project ACTION.David Knight will address the topic of responsibilities of fixed-route drivers under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The one-hour audio conference will beginat 2 p.m. Eastern time March 26.Knight is an ADA team leader for the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration. The audio conference is free of charge.
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