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The U-M Spinal Cord Injury The University of Michigan Spinal Cord Injury Model contents Model System is one of only System (SCIMS) provides comprehensive services for people with 14 institutions in the nation spinal cord injuries (SCI) during and after hospitalization — from classifi ed as a Spinal Cord Injury inpatient care to outpatient rehabilitation and community reintegration. brock Remembering a Tragedy and Model System by the National For more than 20 years, we have been working with the Ann Arbor 6 Looking toward a New Future Institute on Disability and Center for Independent Living to address independent living needs, Rehabilitation Research, U.S. including employment, to help people adjust to life with SCI. Department of Education, and is features also part of one of the most reputed We are an integral part of the U-M Health System’s state- 6 brock Spinal Cord Injury Support Program Departments of Physical Medicine of-the-art service program for people with SCI. We stacey 14 The ‘Wow’ Effect: An 9 mark Small Business Development Supports and Rehabilitation in the country. conduct innovative research and engage in a variety of entrepreneur who gets noticed 10 ashley Career Services information sharing and outreach activities. 13 joel Summer Employment Opportunity Program 14 stacey Small Business Development Supports 16 karly Supports for Youth 17 doug Sports 18 adam Sports 20 ann arbor public schools Advocacy 22 patrick Advocacy 24 linda Assistive technology 25 julia Supports for Independent Living 26 katie Supports for Youth 28 norman Supports for Independent Living news from the ann arbor center for 29 bryan Skills Training & Employment independent living

4 note from the president 5 about the aacil 30 highlights of 2009 katie 31 annual gala & 26 Companion for Life: Advanced benefit auction science fosters a life-long friend 32 financial support University of Michigan Spinal Cord Injury Model System 51 staff listing 300 North Ingalls, NI2A09, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5491 | http://www.med.umich.edu/pmr/modelsci Inpatient SCI Rehabilitation: 734.936.7059 | Research and Education: 734.763.0971 | Outpatient Clinics: 734.936.7175 table of We’re here for you Community Serving the Ann Arbor area for over 40 years. contents ResouRCes aCCeSSiBility ...... 37 bOArd Of dIreCTOrs aCupunCture, herBS & nutrition ...... 37 The U-M Home Care Services University of Michigan Home Care Services provides a full range of James K. Magyar, advoCaCy ...... 37 President & CEO organization partners with many products and services for people with disabilities. We’re continually expanding Kim Swartz, artS & entertrainment ...... 37 groups and programs, including the our offerings with new and innovative products designed to help you live a more Chairperson aSSiStanCe dog organization ...... 37 Model Spinal Cord Injury Care comfortable and independent life. Thomas Tomsik, Secretary & Treasurer Brain injury rehaBilitation ...... 38-39 System and the Wheelchair Seating Charles Beatty, Marcy Epstein, CaSe management ...... 39 Our team of professionals will work with you to ensure your complete Clinic. This integrated approach Kristine Kurnit, Gianna Rodriquez, driving aidS and ServiCeS ...... 39-40 satisfaction. Whether it’s making sure your equipment fits properly; Kathleen Russell, Norma Sarns, ensures the highest level of Tobin Siebers, Joni Smith, duraBle mediCal equipment ...... 40-41 explaining the correct use of supplies; designing and service for our clients. Teresa Sullivan eduCation ...... 41 building custom mobility products; or providing CIL OffICes edITOrIAL sTAff employment/voCational rehaBilitation ...42 in-house nursing and care…we’re here for you. Tom Hoatlin health Care ...... 42 Ann ArbOr Director of Development 3941 Research Park Drive Helen Ledgard hearing aidS ...... 42 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 University of Michigan Creative Director (734) 971-0277 phone Jen Chapin-Smith home health/perSonal aSSiStanCe ...... 42-44 Home Care Services (734) 971-0826 fax Editing legal ServiCeS ...... 44 Wheelchair Seating Service www.aacil.org web Melissa Sartori [email protected] e-mail Resource Directory Compilation liBrary ServiCeS ...... 45 Custom Wheelchairs and Mobility Products Dennis Platte 877.868.8889 MOnrOe / LIfe skILLs Graphic Design life CoaChing ...... 45 Mailing Address MedEQUIP Ted Chen mediCal ServiCeS in home...... 45 1285 N. Telegraph, #360 Photography Durable Medical Equipment 800.530.0714 Monroe, MI 48162 optiCal/loW viSion ...... 45 Physical Address This publication is available HomeMed in alternate formats orthotiCS/proSthetiCS ...... 46 Home Infusion 800.862.2731 11 West Vine – please call. Monroe, MI 48162 peer Support ...... 46 Michigan Visiting Care (734) 682-5271 phone Advertising supplement to Private Duty Services 800.822.7298 phySiCal mediCine & rehaBilitation ...... 46-48 (734) 242-7129 fax AnnArbor.com reCreation & fitneSS ...... 48 Michigan Visiting Nurses Copyright © 2009 The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living. In-home Nursing 800.842.5504 All editorial content supplied by the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living. The Ann tranSportation & rentalS ...... 48-49 Arbor Center for Independent Living is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, nonprofit. MI CS9599 www.um-homecare.org WheelChair Seating ...... 50

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“When I first came to the CIL, I was given a copy of Access Magazine. I read and reread the entire thing because it was an inspiration to me. I saw pictures and read about people with disabilities like me, out in the community, doing things, and making an impact. I realized that people with all kinds of abilities are able to create wonder in the world. ... Together we can accomplish so much, and that’s what I love about the CIL. We all have different abilities that we bring with us, and when we put them together we can accomplish anything.” Katie Koval, Ann Arbor

ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 3 note from the president

The Ann Arbor CIL is “On a Roll!” When our local, state, and national economies took a nose dive last year, our staff, volunteers, board members and donors rolled up their shirt sleeves and went to work!

Why? Because the Ann Arbor CIL is made up of a majority of individuals with disabilities. Because we are mission-based and passionately dedicated. And because we want to do everything we can to empower children, youth and adults with disabilities to be successful at home, at school, at work, and in the community. The Ann Arbor CIL is a nonprofit organization serving individuals with disabilities in greater Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, It takes more than “a village,” it takes “a movement” to make and beyond. things happen, and together we are helping individuals with Each year, we impact the lives of over 4,000 people disabilities in our community gain new knowledge and skills, with disabilities and their families and friends. We help and expand their personal and professional networks, that will propel them toward success. individuals with disabilities build new knowledge and skills In response to the economy, we issued our own “call to action,” and we rededicated and expand their personal and professional networks by ourselves to the fundamental beliefs that formed the foundation of the independent fostering a true place of community and belonging. We also help businesses and organizations reach out to, and include, living movement and the founding of the Ann Arbor CIL more than thirty-three years people with disabilities as both customers and employees. ago. These beliefs embrace the notion that each individual is different and unique; that people with disabilities are the most knowledgeable experts about our own needs and Our areas of focus include: issues; and that programs serving individuals with disabilities should be designed to serve • Advocacy and Disability Awareness all disability groups with peer support as a cornerstone. In independent living terms, a • Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation peer is someone with a disability who is a role model, a support person, and a friend who Engineering, & Information Technology shares a common experience. • Career Services This 20th Anniversary Edition of Access Magazine is filled with the real life experiences • Information about and Assistance of individuals with disabilities in our community. They share their successes, supported Accessing Community Resources in very tangible and real ways by the extraordinary contributions of our staff, volunteers, • Occupational Therapy Assessments board members, donors, and funders. These stories represent the spirit and what is best and Recommendations about the independent living movement. • Peer Support Through the storm of the economic downturn, the Ann Arbor CIL is coming out • Small Business Development Assistance stronger, and more exciting than ever before. I hope that reading about our work and the • Sports, Recreation, & Leisure Programs accomplishments of the people we serve results in your own “call to action.” We invite you to become part of the independent living movement and share in the vibrancy of the Ann • Supports for Independent Living Arbor CIL. • Supports for Youth • Transitions from Nursing Facilities back into the Community

• Volunteer and Training Opportunities Jim Magyar In this, our 20th Annual Edition of Access Magazine, we President & CEO are proud to share the stories of some of the individuals we served during the past year.

4 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 5 “When I’M In MIChIgAn sTAdIuM, I’M TAken bACk TO A TIMe befOre The ACCIdenT, And I feeL LIke MY dAd And hOLLIs Are rIghT There CheerIng WITh Me.”

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“When I’m in Michigan Stadium, I feel like I’m a part of a huge family,” Brock Mealer, 25, says. “For three hours every Saturday, life’s worries go on hold.” For Brock, who’s father and family friend passed away two years ago, going to Michigan Stadium to watch his brother play football is bittersweet.

Two years ago, Brock and his family were on their way to church on wChristmas Eve when a 92-year-old man ran a stop sign and hit the car in which he and his family were traveling. Brock’s father, David Mealer, and his brother’s girlfriend, Hollis Richer, were killed in the accident. Brock sustained an injury to his spinal cord which causes him to be paralyzed from the waist down. When he goes to Michigan Stadium now, thoughts of his father and Hollis are never far.

In the days and months after the accident, Brock faced not only a difficult grieving process, but also a rehabilitation process that was both mentally and physically grueling. With life as he had known it forever changed, he says, “I had to learn everything all over. I couldn’t sit up, and I was in pain all the time.” He added, “one of the hardest things to get used to was needing to rely on someone else for life’s most basic tasks. I had always been so independent.”

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During his rehabilitation process Brock says, “I remember Tom’s the Ohio State University, and he Three years ago, Mark Long was laid funding from MRS to purchase at the University of Michigan coming into my hospital room just was working in the construction off from his job on the assembly line necessary equipment, and Mark Hospital, Brock met Ann Arbor CIL to ask me about me. No one else at industry. “Suddenly, I didn’t know at Chrysler. For months he looked for formed M & L Landscaping in Detroit. staff member Tom Hoatlin, who the hospital did that. Meeting Tom how and when I was going to be another factory job, but with the rough “Before long, also has a spinal cord injury. Tom and getting to know him as a person able to finish college, or how I was economy of Southeast Michigan taking things really came directs the CIL’s Spinal Cord Injury meant a lot to me.” Brock added, “at going to be able to go back to its toll, he kept hearing “no.” “The “WIThOuT rICk, CherAnIssA, And MY alive,” Mark says. a time when I didn’t work. It was scary.” Brock finished bills were piling up, and money was “Without Rick, M.r.s. COunseLOr, I WOuLdn’T know what life would his undergraduate degree and is running out,” he says. “I was broke.” Cheranissa, and my look like after the now working on a master’s degree be Where I AM TOdAY.” tWith little else to do, Mark offered MRS counselor, I hospital, Tom and the at the Ohio State University in to cut his neighbor’s grass one day. wouldn’t be here. other peer mentors public affairs. He says, “I want to One lawn turned into two, and before When I started, my business covered were an important get involved and change things for long he started going door-to-door to a two-block radius. Now I’m all over example to me. They people with disabilities, and things get customers. “I remember walking the city.” were guys with the related to driving and insurance. I up the street with my feet cold and Mark now has more than 32 repeat numb,” he says. “I had always liked clients, both residential and commercial. “everYOne AT The hOspITAL WAs gIvIng Me AdvICe cutting grass, but at the time I wasn’t Some days he works more than13 thinking it would be a long-term job. I And TeLLIng Me ThAT ThIngs WOuLd be Ok, buT IT hours a day. “I love what I’m doing. And was just taking it day-by-day.” WAs MOre MeAnIngfuL COMIng frOM TOM And The working in soil and nature really helps Although Mark was starting to my illness. It’s peaceful and relaxing, and OTher [CIL] peer MenTOrs. TheY’d LIved IT. develop some repeat customers, he the physical work is good for it, too.” was struggling at the time with his TheY’d been ThrOugh IT.” Still, Mark isn’t without his bipolar disorder. “I had mood swings, challenges. “I’m always working to want to use my experiences to make I was withdrawn, and I couldn’t find the next job; this is a competitive things better for other people.” concentrate. The bipolar was starting to business. I’ve come a long way, and I’m paralyze me.” Eventually, Mark, 48, went Brock is still training weekly on not willing to give it up. I want to have a to Michigan Rehabilitation Services UM’s Lokomat, a machine which fleet of lawn care trucks one day.” (MRS), where his counselor helped helps him put weight on his legs him with his bipolar disorder. After Mark is fully reflective of the help and gradually rehabilitate his central debating what his next career move he’s gotten. “Rick and Cheranissa nervous system. Although unsure of should be, his counselor connected him were very encouraging and whether he’ll be able to walk again, with the Ann Arbor CIL to explore the supportive,” he says, “and they gave Brock says, “I’m starting to see some same injuries, all idea of starting a lawn care business. me the confidence to succeed. They progress. I’m starting to be able living independent, made a lot of difference to my life.” to put weight on my legs, and it’s Seeing that Mark had a strong Support program, which connects full, and meaningful lives. They amazing to feel.” work ethic and a drive to succeed, Ann patients with new spinal cord showed me that getting out there Mark says he wants to help others Arbor CIL staff members Rick Weir and the way he’s been helped. When he injuries with peer mentors who and living again was possible.” “Going through something like Cheranissa Roach began working with sees new lawncare trucks out on the have had similar injuries for several this,” Brock added, “you realize how After three months in the Mark to develop a successful business. road now, he stops to talk with the years. The program is designed human you are. It changes your hospital, Brock took on the difficult They helped him develop a formalized owners just starting out. “I’ve gotten a to provide training in adjusting perspective on life. I’d always felt task of returning home and learning business plan and then helped him lot of great help in my life, and I want to to life with a spinal cord injury as invincible before. I never expected how to live a normal life again. At implement a marketing strategy, help bring others up, too. I want to be well as emotional support during a something like this to happen to me. the time of the accident Brock advertise, recruit new customers, and special to somebody one day,” he says. significant life transition process. I appreciate life very differently now.” had been about to graduate from learn about accounting techniques. “This is bigger than me. I gotta stay out Eventually, they helped Mark get here to pass it forward.” 8 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition “My learning disability ashley still affects • Career Services how i do My job, Ashley Faucher is showing that a whole family affair. “Ashley’s father but i don’t let it finding the right career is worth the and I did all kinds of things to help her challenging journey it can sometimes learn. She was so good at learning get in the way. be. Now a successful stylist at cheers, we used to make up cheers to Reflections Salon and Spa in Brighton, help her learn material for tests.” when three years ago Ashley was a senior at After graduation, Ashley started Howell High School with little to no looking for a job, but nothing was challenges ideas for what her future held. A panning out. “I gave my resume coMe u p, While many of her classmates to a few places, but I wasn’t really were applying to different colleges putting myself out there. I was and making plans for after afraid of having to read or write i find ways graduation, Ashley was at a loss on a job. I didn’t know how my for what to do next. After years of learning disability would be on a around theM.” struggling to get by in school, her job.” Ashley eventually got involved grades and test scores were too low with Ann Arbor CIL staff members to be considered by most colleges. Dan Durci and Ashley, who has a learning disability, “MOre ThAn AnYThIng, Helen Ledgard, looked into Oakland Community who helped College, but the school told her she ThIs jOb hAs MAde Me Ashley develop didn’t qualify for regular classes. her resume and “They said her scores were too low,” beLIeve In MYseLf.” identify job leads. Ashley’s mother, Penny Faucher, After several a complex cheer routine in just said. “After everything we had been applications, Ashley landed a job at two days to make the varsity through, that was tough to hear.” DSW Shoe Warehouse in Brighton. cheerleading squad, beating Because of her learning disability, out older, more experienced “I knew working in retail wasn’t Ashley has a hard time processing cheerleaders for the spot. where I ultimately wanted to end reading and math, and words on up, but the job at DSW was what “I learn things in different ways,” a page can seem confusing and I needed,” Ashley said. “It helped Ashley said. “Figuring out what those overwhelming to her. Throughout me face a lot of fears I had about ways are has come in unexpected high school, completing homework working.” Ashley said that when she ways.” In middle school, Ashley said and preparing for tests were fraught was first assigned to work on the she got in trouble for bouncing with nerves, anxiety, and feelings of cash register and write down orders on the trampoline while she was uncertainty. Test after test, Ashley from customers, she wasn’t sure how studying for a test once. “But it had worked hard to prepare, only to she would handle it. “But after a little worked. I got a B. Most of the time receive disappointing grades in return. bit of practice, it was fine. I figured studying ‘the right way,’ I got Fs.” out tricks to help me stay on top of Although her learning disability “We joke all the time about her things, and I learned that if I make a had affected her performance in learning disability now,” Penny said, mistake on a job, it’s okay.” the classroom, her intelligence and “but back then it wasn’t so funny. We propensity for success were evident Ashley worked at DSW for nine used to wonder if she would make it.” in other ways. Her freshman year months and gained the confidence Penny said Ashley’s studying became of high school, Ashley memorized continued on page 12

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she needed to go after a goal she to cosmetology school, I decided I had had since she was a child: to couldn’t do that.” become a professional hair stylist. At Douglas J, because of her Ashley took the steps to apply learning disability the school offered to cosmetology school and was her additional time to take tests and ultimately accepted at Douglas J in an assistant to read test material Lansing. Through a partnership with Americorps VISTA Summer out loud to her. “Getting special Michigan Rehabilitation Services, Employment Opportunity Program accommodations for tests, I didn’t joel Dan provided Ashley with funding know how other people in the class to help pay for the tuition, and he to write down a word that I don’t know would react,” she said. “But I was “Before I came to the CIL, I had never thought of Joel was stationed at the CIL for his on-the-job service helped her secure accommodations how to spell, I just think of something completely open about it, and my my depression as part of the disability community, and experience and worked primarily on the CIL’s annual cycling for her learning disability. different to say.” teachers and classmates turned out to I didn’t identify with the CIL,” Joel Reinstein, 22, says. event and fundraiser, I-Ride. “In the months leading up to Facing a return to the classroom, be really supportive and encouraging. Ashley says her learning disability “When I heard the word, ‘disability,’ wheelchairs came to I-Ride, I did a lot of cold-calling. It wasn’t glamorous, but I though, Ashley was nervous. “I knew They knew me for me, and that was a continues to influence all aspects of mind. I had never thought about hidden issues as being called up potential sponsors to try to get food donations and there were going to be a lot of hard totally new feeling.” her life. “Going out to a restaurant considered a disability. The summer program really sponsorships for the event.” It worked: Joel secured enough tests. I didn’t want it to be a repeat is always going to be hard for me; I helped me recognize my own depression as a disability.” food donations to make sure every meal was provided at no Ashley fought hard to achieve of high school,” she said. This time, have a hard time with menus. But cost to participants during the four-day event. Joel was also good grades and soon found herself Joel, a student at Michigan State University (MSU), though, something was different. “For I’ve figured out that if I ask my friends responsible for a variety of other event logistics. getting recognition from her peers. Bwas a member of the Ann Arbor CIL’s Americorps VISTA the first time, I wanted to be there. I what they’re ordering, it helps me She graduated from Douglas J in Summer Employment Opportunity “Participating in the program really made an impact on wanted to be in school. And I wanted understand what the menu says. And December 2008 and later passed the Program, which provided a 10-week, me,” Joel said. “I saw first-hand the benefits of hard work to do well.” With that motivation, things like texting and Facebook have state licensing exam. “It was a long full-time work-learning experience and sticking something out. It gave me a feeling of being Ashley said she made a decision that also really helped me with spelling.” road of figuring out what I needed, for 20 young adults. The Ann able to accomplish things.” she was going to have to be open and then advocating for it, but I She says that learning to Arbor CIL launched the program about her disability. Joel, who was diagnosed with clinical depression and made it,” she said. Shortly thereafter, understand her learning disability, in partnership with Michigan anxiety in high school, said “having depression has had a In high school, Ashley had always Ashley landed a job at Reflections, be open about it, and get around the Works! and the Corporation huge impact on my life. Thoughts of ‘what’s the point? I’m hid the fact that she had a learning where she now has a full schedule of roadblocks it puts up has taken a while, for National and Community not going to make it. I’m not good enough’ play out in my disability. Many times she had repeat clients. She cuts, styles, and but it’s been worth the journey. “Many Service. It combined on-the-job work mind all the time.” Joel took a leave of absence from MSU passed up accommodations the colors hair, as well as does manicures of my friends from high school still experiences at seven area non-profit last winter because of challenges related to his depression. school provided her for her learning and pedicures. have no idea I have a learning disability, organizations with classroom- After spending the summer with the CIL, he said, “I now disability for fear of being viewed but with friends I meet now, and based learning at the CIL “It’s been a long road, but it’s have a better understanding that my own hidden issues differently by her classmates. “I never people in my career, I’m open about it,” about career exploration amazing to have made it to where I are part of the disability community.” wanted anyone to see I had a learning Ashley said. “They all know and don’t and “real world” readiness. am. More than anything, this job has disability. In order to use the school’s care. Life is easier. They know me for Students worked at “Because of my depression, everything I do is focused made me believe in myself.” She says accommodations, I would have had me, and that means a lot.” the Ann Arbor CIL, Big on taking on problems that seem insurmountable,” Joel her learning disability still affects how to leave the room when a test was Brothers Big Sisters, said. “But I’ve stopped trying to fight off my depression, she does her job, but she doesn’t let “It feels good to be where I am going on, and I didn’t want to do Court Appointed and I accept it as a part of me. It’s always going to be it get in the way anymore: “When now,” Ashley added. “Looking back, that. I did everything I could to hide Special Advocates, there. Now what I try to do is acknowledge its existence challenges come up, I’m open about it, there were a lot of hard struggles my disability. When other kids would EMU GEAR UP, the and get out of the door anyway.” and I find ways around them. If I can’t along the way, but enjoying all the finish a test before me, I’d fake being Michigan Prisoner understand how to read or pronounce wonderful outcomes now, it never Joel plans to continue with his studies at MSU this done just so I wouldn’t be the last Re-entry Initiative, something, I ask a colleague. If I need really seems like it was all that hard.” winter. And after graduation? “I want to apply for the one working on a test. When I went the Neutral Zone, Peace corps,” he said. “I don’t like doing things just for my and Ozone House. career. I want to help people.” 12 ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition 13 “I love that I am able to be a positive role model for stacey my two sons. For them to see • Small Business Development Supports their dad, in a wheelchair, at home, and running a business, Stacey Boyd is a photographer who gets noticed. His striking posters and commissioned photography projects grace that is so cool.” the walls of churches, private businesses, and family homes. And his services are in high demand. But Stacey’s road to professional success was far from typical. SA military vet, Stacey was serving on the Fort Bragg Military Base in North Carolina in 1987 when he was in a car accident that left him with a spinal cord injury and paralysis from the chest down. Stacey spent a year recovering in the hospital and going through rehab. “I had to learn everything all over again: how to sit up, get dressed, get out of bed, and take care of myself,” he said. “It was like nothing I’d ever been through.”

When he finally got home from the hospital, Stacey had a photos,” he said. Eventually, he enrolled in a photography my wife, Alicia, and my two boys, Jordan and Justin. Each “With the disability, hard time with depression. “For several years, I didn’t leave the class at Oakland Community College, and a once-hobby person played an important part in helping me prove house much. It was a different life. Nothing was the same,” he started to turn into a profession. “It was a sports poster that doing what I love can be a financially viable business.” my life is the same said. “But after a long time like that, one day something just that I made of my son Justin playing football that was Stacey has now expanded far beyond his customized clicked in me. All of a sudden, I looked around and realized, ‘this as it always was. the turning point,” he recalled. “Parents and kids saw it youth sports posters. He now does senior portraits, is the way it’s gonna be. I’m not gonna walk. And I’m not gonna I used to do 10,000 things; and loved it. They started calling me up and asking me school class photos, professional sports photography, worry about it.’” From there, Stacey said, “life moved forward.” now I do 9,999. The only to make ones for them.” Stacey started to think he could antique photo restoration, and artistic photo works for Over the years, Stacey began getting more and more into make something more out of his photography, and he commissioned projects. And business thing I can’t do is walk.” photography. “I was always the guy at family gatherings taking began looking around for help in starting a business. is booming. “I’m busy,” he says, “and it’s all from word of mouth.” Stacey went to the Veteran’s Administration (VA) and got help from his counselor Merri Busch, who in turn “At the end of the day, referred him to the Ann Arbor CIL for help in launching his what I love most in this job business, Rollin’ Photography. Over a period of several is to see the expressions on months, Ann Arbor CIL staff members Rick Weir and the kids’ faces. They are so Cheranissa Roach helped Stacey come up with a strategic excited to see the finished business plan, served as a sounding board for new ideas, work,” he says referencing and helped him identify new products, customers, and the children’s sports posters revenue sources. Rick and Cheranissa also helped Stacey he does. “When I show up at assess what his equipment needs were and apply for an event, they all say, ‘you’re funding for the equipment from the VA. the picture man!’ It’s like nothing else.” “Rick and Cheranissa were instrumental in helping me get my business going,” Stacey says. “So were my family,

ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition 14 ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition 15 “Being independent can have its ups and downs, but “Doug and his tennis show people I wouldn’t change it not to underestimate people for anything.” doug • Sports with disabilities. He shows the world around him to recognize Doug Peterson is an avid tennis abilities, not disabilities.” player, and it shows on the court. “Tennis is really fun,” he says. “It’s good exercise.” Doug, who has Downs Syndrome, has been participating in the Ann Arbor CIL’s tennis program for four years. He had never Dplayed tennis before participating in the program, and now he’s karly quite skilled. “The CIL’s Sports and • Supports for Youth that belief in me.” Karly says her have thought of on my own, and they Rec Programs have made For as long as she can remember, Karly parents had a huge role in helping were important. Anna and Jen gave a definite and positive Stanislovaitis, 18, has been determined her get to where she is today. “So me advice I couldn’t have gotten from impact on Doug,” Jane to make it on her own. Now a journalism many people with disabilities don’t others in my life. They knew what it Peterson, Doug’s mother, major at Grand Valley State University in have people who tell them they would be like to have a disability on says. “Doug has gained both skills and Allendale, Michigan, Karly is doing just can have a normal, happy life, but campus because they’ve been there. friends that have carried on beyond that. “Being independent is awesome. my parents always did. They always Only someone else with a similar the CIL. The skills have given him It’s an irreplaceable feeling,” Karly says. pushed me to do things I didn’t think disability can understand.” confidence he didn’t have before, and “There are many challenges, but to be I could do, and they gave me the he now plays all the time with friends Karly says the most significant independent is worth every moment.” drive to set goals for myself. Being or family. He and his dad play almost benefit of working with Jen and away from them now I realize how every weekend.” F Anna was just getting to know Anna, Born with cerebral palsy, Karly has much I owe them.” limited strength and muscle spasticity who also has cerebral palsy. “Anna is Doug, 32, has always had a love of in her lower body, which makes her Before going away to college, a few years older than me, and she being physically active, and throughout unable to walk on her own. She also has Karly got involved with the Ann has graduated from college, she’s his lifetime sports have provided a way a learning disability and a condition in her Arbor CIL, and staff members Anna working at the CIL, and she is married. for him to connect with others. In high eyes, called strabismus, which causes her Dusbiber-Gossage and Jen Chapin- She has made a good life for herself. school, Doug was invited to swim with to have weakness in her eye muscles and Smith helped her prepare for a lot of Just by being her, she has set an the varsity swim team after the coach limited depth perception. the challenges that would lie ahead important example for me.” saw him swimming at a local club. After for her on campus. Anna and Jen high school, though, Doug had a hard Karly was a multi-year winner With these challenges, Karly has helped Karly think through things time finding activities and making When the tennis sessions aren’t on, Doug volunteers at Sunrise of the CIL’s John Weir Academic become a stand-out student. She like how she’d get around on campus friends. “A lot of things have come into he asks about them all the time.” Assisted Living and works three graduated from Dexter High School last Scholarship, and she was a member play to make Doug’s life better, and the days a week with a supported with enough time to get to class, She also says the program spring with a 3.5 GPA, and she is now of the Center’s Americorps VISTA CIL is one of them,” Jane says. employment program. “He now how she’d shower, and how she’d has benefited their whole family. embarking on a goal she has had since Summer Employment Opportunity has a full and active life, and the do laundry. They also helped Karly “Since Doug has become skilled she was a young child: to go away to Program. “Being involved with the Jane added that the CIL’s tennis CIL is part of that. He has hobbies, figure out the right questions to ask in tennis, his sisters see him in a college and make it on her own. CIL changed my perspective on life,” program has provided an important work, friends, and family,” Jane the University’s Office for Disability context of ability, not disability. she said. “Everyone I’ve met there has social context for Doug. “At the CIL, said. In addition to tennis, Doug “I’ve always had a drive in me to be Support Services and advocate for We play tennis as a family now, overcome adversity in different ways, Doug is among peers,” she says. “It is has been involved in bicycling, independent. I think I got that from my what she needed. and it’s an activity where he and I approach college differently one of the few places where he can feel walking, yoga, and game nights at parents.” Karly said. “They always believed participates as an equal.” “The things Anna and Jen helped now because of that.” successful, and that means a lot to him. the CIL. I could be independent, and they instilled me with were things I never would 16 ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition 17 “nO MATTer WhAT dIsAbILITY YOu hAve, I-rIde shOWs YOu ThAT YOu CAn dO WhAT AbLe-bOdIed peOpLe CAn. IT sAYs YOu CAn dO AnYThIng.”

“i’M jusT A reguLAr kId. adam My fRienDs see Me, not the DisAbility.” S po rts• Sports•

“I’ve done a lot of sports events, and I-Ride is the best “What’s simple for most kids is a challenge for me. But using event I’ve done,” Adam Rose, 15, says. A competitive hand- a wheelchair, you learn to adapt. Having a disability has cyclist since the age of 12, Adam has a lot to compare it to. made me more appreciative of things around me. I have a Over his tenure as a young athlete, Adam has competed in a better attitude toward life because of it.” long list of elite-level hand-cycling races and sporting events. Adam started handcycling when he was seven and also He and his parents spend many weekends on the road, got involved in wheelchair basketball when he was eight. going to hand-cycling races around Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, When he entered his first handcycling race at the age of 12, and beyond, and photos of Adam on the winner’s podium at his love of competitive cycling took off from there. imost of these races fill his dad’s expansive photo collection. Adam and his family began participating in the CIL’s Every year, Adam and his parents, Don and Lori Rose, I-Ride event two years ago. “Before the first I-Ride, I was participate in the Ann Arbor CIL’s cycling event, called nervous,” Adam said. “Up until that point, I had only Independence Ride, or “I-Ride.” I-Ride is a four-day adaptive competed in marathons, which take about 2-3 hours. I-Ride cycling event in which people with and without disabilities is a lot more intense.” Don added, “I didn’t know if he could ride from Holland, Michigan, to Ann Arbor. This past year do it, but he did.” 150 people participated in the event, and 35 cyclists rode the entire journey from Holland to Ann Arbor. Now with three I-Rides under his belt, Adam says, “I-Ride is a lot of fun. There’s a lot of joking around, and everyone Adam is no ordinary, super-star athlete, though. When is like a big family. It’s one of the only events where able- Adam was four, he had leukemia which nearly took his life. bodied and disabled people ride side-by-side. There are no “There were times when Adam was so weak and taken by disabilities or special abilities. We’re all the same.” the cancer, I didn’t think he’d make it,” Don says. But Adam fought back, and his cancer has now been in remission “Although Adam has been one of the youngest adult for 11 years. Adam has a T10 spinal cord injury which participants in the event,” Don said, “being in sports with he sustained from a rare adverse reaction to one of his older adults with disabilities has had a huge impact on him. chemotherapy treatments. As a result Adam is paralyzed He sees them excelling at sports and at life. The other guys from the waist down. show him there can be a good life ahead. We look forward to doing I-Ride for many years to come. It’s the highlight of When reflecting on the long battle Adam has had with our summer.” leukemia and paralysis, Don admits, “it’s been hard. I had to quit my job the first year of Adam’s leukemia, and there Adam’s goals for the future? “The Paralympics,” he says. have been so many medical visits. But now I watch him, big, “I want to qualify for the U.S. Paralympic hand-cycling team strong, and so independent. It’s amazing to see.” in 2012 or 2016. I’m only 15. We never thought I’d be this good this young – I can only imagine how much better I can Adam is now a sophomore at Eisenhower High School become. It’s getting exciting.” in Shelby Township. “Disability has shaped my life,” he says.

18 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 19 ann arbor public schools • Advocacy

impairments are resulting in that every child, parent, and grand-parent who comes to our reduced energy costs for the schools can use our facilities.” entire school system, because the lights turn off automatically Randy Trent, Executive Director for Physical Properties, user-assessed ramps and curb cuts. AAPS is also when a room is not occupied. updating its website to provide information on said that working with the CIL really helped him make things accessible entrances for its users. In addition, ramps installed at the Skyline football stadium better by seeing things from the standpoints of all users: “At are providing easier access to games for students, families, and the schools, when accessibility issues come up, it’s often in This year, Nazarena Acosta-Miranda went to middle school The work is making an impact. Katy LaCroix, a fourth football fans who use wheelchairs. “It’s an excellent ramp,” said the context of one problem for one child. With the CIL, we for the first time. For many young people her age, going to grade teacher at Logan Elementary, says the microphones Benjamin Graham, a counselor at Skyline High School. “I’ve used it discussed experiences faced by everyone, from kids, parents middle school, where classes change every hour and hallways and speakers that were installed in every classroom to aid at games and noticed how gradual it is. A lot of ramps are so steep and grandparents to community members. Carolyn helped are bustling thoroughfares of activity, can be an intimidating students who are hard of hearing have benefited everyone, that individuals in wheelchairs cannot safely use them without us understand that accessibility is not about just meeting a transition. For Nazarena, a sixth grader at Clague Middle School both with and without disabilities. “With the microphones, all help. This ramp is very well-designed. Just about anyone in any standard, it’s about doing what works better for everyone.” in Ann Arbor, the move was especially challenging. Nazrena, of my students can hear the instruction better, and students are wheelchair would have an easy time using it.” The ramps installed who is blind, had to memorize where each of her classes were Carolyn continues to work with the school system to paying better attention to their lessons. As a teacher, I am also at the football stadium are serving as a model for other schools and learn how to navigate the school on her own. review plans and consult on accessibility issues of facilities finding that I don’t strain my voice as much during the work and architects to follow due to their innovative design and the and programming. She brings expert-level knowledge to tTo help Nazarena get around more easily, the school installed day,” Katy said. “The microphones have improved the classroom choice of upper and lower-level seating they offer to users. the work, having completed a variety of advanced ADA Braille signage along all hallways, pointing the way to classrooms, experience for all involved.” “Making sure our facilities are truly accessible is important compliance and accessibility training programs. Staff bathrooms, the music room, and the cafeteria. “The signs are The microphones are not the only feature that is benefiting to us,” said Dr. Todd Roberts, Superintendent of Ann Arbor members at the CIL regularly consult with private helpful. They help me find my way when I get lost,” Nazarena said. people both with and without disabilities. Motion-sensitive light Public Schools. “In order to make sure that every child has businesses and units of government on accessibility, The Braille signage was part of a broader initiative of switches that were installed to assist individuals with mobility access to the education we’re providing, we need to ensure universal design, and ADA compliance issues. Ann Arbor Public Schools’ (AAPS) over the past two years to implement changes at buildings and facilities to make them more accessible for students and constituents with disabilities. Ann Arbor CIL staff member Carolyn Grawi has served as a consultant to the initiative and provided advice on universal design and disability accessibility. As result of the work, all public schools in Ann Arbor now have accessible entries at every building, appropriate and accessible parking, at least one accessible men’s and women’s bathroom on every floor, and 20 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 21 patrick • Advocacy

“You have no idea how much this ramp means to me,” Patrick Redmond, 51, says. Through advocacy efforts of the Monroe CIL, Patrick recently received a ramp which helps him enter and exit his house with ease.

Before getting the ramp, Patrick had an old ramp on his front door which was barely useable. It was sinking into the ground and had become dangerous. Patrick says he used to yhave to use his back door, struggling to walk using a cane. As a result he didn’t leave the house much unless necessary.

“When I received a call that I would soon have a new ramp built onto my house for free, I about fell over,” he said. A retired engineer, Patrick experiences seizures and traumatic arthritis. After multiple knee and back surgeries, Patrick now uses a wheelchair.

The ramp that Patrick received was part of a broader ramp-building initiative made possible by a partnership among Comcast, the Michigan Senate, Disability Network– Michigan, the United Way, and the Monroe CIL. Early in 2009, Comcast donated $30,000 to build ramps for five Michigan residents in need. Funding for Patrick’s ramp was allocated to the Monroe area after Monroe CIL staff members Rhonda Elliott and Kelly Meadows spoke to their legislators about the large number of people who need wheelchair ramps.

Most insurance companies will not pay for wheelchair ramps, and the Monroe United Way has a two-year waiting list of people wanting ramps. The Monroe CIL staff chose Patrick based on need and coordinated many of the details for the project.

On August 7, more than 30 people came to Patrick’s house to help make the ramp a reality. State Senator for Monroe, Randy Richardville, was one of the volunteers that day. Tim Horton’s donated donuts and coffee, and Lowe’s donated delivery of the wood and other supplies. Contractor Mike Everitt of Unlimited Contracting in Dundee donated his time to oversee the work, and State Line Medical donated the design plans for the ramp.

Patrick is elated with the results. “Now I can pull right up to my front door in my power wheelchair,” Patrick said. “I appreciate this so much.”

22 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 23 “ChALLenges Are A pArT Of LIfe. pArT linda Of WhAT We hAve TO dO As huMAns Is • Assistive Technology LeArn hOW TO MeeT The ChALLenges, WhATever TheY hAppen TO be.”

“It is what it is, and it’s all when she walks, she doesn’t feel her getting turned down because she fell between good,” Linda Owczarzack, 55, says. feet hitting the ground. She also has “That’s my saying, and that’s the a chronic cough in part due to chronic the qualifying requirements of the programs and summary.” Linda, through dry wit obstructive pulmonary disease. the insurance coverage she had. Julia applied for Social Security disability benefits hopeful and unwavering determination, While battling cancer, Linda lost that she would find the answer she needed. She is showing that life really can be her job with a local school district after went through a very labor-intensive application reinvented. working for 14 years as a paraeducator. process, which was made even harder by the In 2005, Linda was diagnosed “If I looked at everything I’ve lost, it Ann Arbor CIL Rehabilitation Engineer manual dexterity required for filling out the forms with estrogen receptive breast would not be productive,” she says. i Glen Ashlock helped Linda get ahold of and the disability she has. When she was turned cancer, following a diagnosis of “Instead, I accept what’s in front of me two types of technology allowing her down, she thought, “I did all this work, and they basal cell carcinoma on her face in and recognize the good. There’s always to enter text into her computer without turned me down! To say I wasn’t disabled was 1999. The doctors gave her a 30% good.” With that attitude and determined moving her fingers. The alternative ridiculous. I was angry.” to chart a new course for her career, chance of survival. After multiple keyboard OrbiTouch enables her to Linda went back to school to pursue surgeries, chemotherapy, and input letters and commands using Julia consulted Ann Arbor CIL staff member an associates degree at Washtenaw difficult complications, Linda made hand movements instead of finger George Ridenour, a long-time friend of hers. Community College to become a it to remission. Though she beat movements, and Dragon Naturally- George encouraged her to appeal the decision medical administrative assistant. the odds for survival, Linda was left Speaking, a software program, enables and then helped her through the process. with complicated and permanent When she returned to school, her to enter text through speaking. Remembering the lengthy process, she said, “it was side-effects of the cancer treatment. though, Linda found the neuropathy very frustrating. They kept sending me one packet To use the devices, Linda had She now has moderate to severe was posing challenges that were of paperwork after another, and I was insulted to learn a whole new way of doing neuropathy, which means she getting in the way of her success. She by some of the things they asked. They didn’t things. For the OrbiTouch, Linda had has limited sensation in her body, couldn’t type accurately on a standard understand how it feels to have a disability.” to master a code based on colors particularly her arms and legs. “It’s keyboard and was having difficulty julia and hand movements, and to use “George was my advocate, though,” she said. hard to explain, but my feet and getting her assignments done. “It was the Dragon Naturally-Speaking, she • Supports for Independent Living “He helped me fill out the forms and presented hands feel frozen. I can move them, frustrating,” Linda said. She eventually but I can’t necessarily tell what had to learn how to speak so that it my case. He knew how to ask for what I needed. got a recommendation from UM for Julia Moore is a woman who fights for what she wants. After they’re doing.” She explains that catches her instructions accurately. Most importantly, he gave me perspective on alternative keyboarding technology she retired in 2007, when she found herself unable to afford Glen provided Linda with training the process.” She explained that when she was and went to Michigan Rehabilitation necessary medications, she didn’t know what to do. A former and support to make sure she was frustrated by the never-ending requests for Services and the CIL for help in getting middle school teacher for the Ann Arbor Public Schools, Julia prepared to use them, and Linda says, paperwork, George helped her see that the connected to it. found herself asking, “I worked 38 years for this?” “Glen was wonderful. It’s going to take things they were asking were normal. “George some more time to really master these Julia has neurological deficits stemming from a congenital told me what to expect. He knew a lot about devices, but after only a few months, I’m spinal column defect, and as a result, nerve impulses don’t the process because he’d done it before. It was a already seeing the benefits.” reach various parts of her body. Julia said, “I don’t have good huge help.” “The Center has provided a real balance, I have muscle spasms, and I drop things. I’m in a lot of J After what seemed like endless paperwork opportunity for success,” she added. pain.” In 1993, Julia became paralyzed from the neck down. She and back and forth, Julia finally got the news: “The new devices allow me to use underwent three spinal surgeries and months of rehabilitation She had been approved for Social Security the skills I have in a non-traditional to regain functioning. She said, “it was a long process to learn disability benefits. “I thought, ‘after almost three way.” Linda paused and reflected, how to drive and walk again.” Currently Julia uses a scooter and years, it’s about time.’” Julia said now with the “which is who I am.” a crutch to get around. monthly social security benefits she’s able to pay Under her retirement medical insurance, many of her for the medication she needs. “I can go out and “One Of The hArdesT pArTs Is The MIsundersTAndIng peOpLe hAve When TheY see Me… necessary medications were not covered. She applied for a live my life, finally. It’s making a big difference.” number of prescription drug coverage programs but kept peOpLe dOn’T reALIze ThAT …YOu CAn hAve A pOWerfuL, nOrMAL, 24heALTACCESShY A 2010ppeArAnC | 20the A bunnuTAl be Edition gOIng ThrOugh sOMeThIng enTIreLY dIfferenT On The InsIde.” ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 25 “geTTIng rOsIe hAs defInITeLY enAbLed Me TO gO katie OuT And pursue The LIfe I’ve ALWAYs WAnTed TO LIve. • Supports for Youth she gIves Me COnfIdenCe TO gO OuT InTO The This summer, Katie Koval, 18, moved out on her own. WOrLd. I knOW I’LL be sAfer WITh her.” Though a typical rite of passage for many young adults, it was a significant turning point for Katie.

When Katie was 15, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. where she came from. Rosie can help Katie remember to After going through a long journey of diagnosis, take her anti-seizure medication, and she can also help treatment, and learning how to deal with long-term Katie keep her bearings and remember how to get back effects, moving out on her own is a symbol of the long to her starting point. Rosie may also be able to help her tway she’s come. drive safely one day. Katie had to give up her learner’s When Katie first started getting seizures, doctors permit when she was 15 due to the epilepsy, and service couldn’t figure out what was causing her condition. dogs can sometimes help individuals qualify to drive. Eventually she underwent brain surgery, which helped One of the unexpected benefits of having Rosie has to stabilize the seizures, but the surgery resulted in been the signal that she provides to others. “When I go permanent brain damage which causes her short-term out, often times it’s hard to know how to tell people that memory and balance problems. The seizures still pose I have a disability,” Katie said. “Because Rosie wears a significant risk for Katie. service dog jacket, she’s a natural ice-breaker. It’s so much When Ann Arbor CIL staff member Jen Chapin- easier to say ‘I have a disability’ in this way.” Smith first met Katie, she informed her that people with “There have been a couple of moments when I’ve challenges related to seizures often use service dogs. realized just how much Rosie helps me. There are so Dogs can provide advanced assistance for individuals many unexpected and scary things that can come up with with epilepsy. my condition. Before I got her, I never wanted to leave the With Jen’s advice, Katie acquired Rosie, a black lab house. Now with Rosie, I’m not afraid to go out.” who is being trained as Katie’s social support and seizure Katie, a dancer since the age of four, had to give up a alert dog. Because humans emit a certain scent before career in ballet after the brain surgery, due to the balance having a seizure, when Rosie is fully trained, she will be problems it caused. Katie has found an unexpected love able to detect the scent and warn Katie to get to a safe of world dance, though, and is now involved in African, position before the seizure takes place. This will prevent Middle Eastern, and Indian dancing. She teaches at a Katie from having a seizure in an unsafe location, such as number of dance studios around Ann Arbor. while crossing the street, or climbing the stairs. Katie is a winner of the CIL’s John Weir Academic When fully trained, Rosie will be able to help Katie Scholarship and has been involved in the CIL’s youth with a number of other things. Because of her brain- programming. She attributes the CIL with providing damage, Katie often has a hard time remembering to significant emotional and social support for her. Katie is take her anti-seizure medication at the right time, and now a first year student at Eastern Michigan University, when she walks even short distances, she has a hard majoring in international affairs. She speaks Mandarin time staying oriented or remembering how to return and is looking to become a professional translator.

When reflecting on the journey epilepsy has taken her on, Katie says, “I’ve had my moments. Frustration, anger, discomfort, and pain. I would be lying if I said it hasn’t been a challenge. But I have days when I can’t believe how far I’ve come.”

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Four years ago, Norman LaFleur collaboration with the Bryan Burhart knows first-hand what it’s like to have a was living in the back room of Area Agency on Aging hard time with the job-search. Born with cerebral palsy, his sister’s house when the cold 1-B and the Department Bryan cannot speak and has limited movement in his temperatures and damp air of Community Health, arms and hands. As a result, he caused him to get pneumonia and helps individuals like communicates using a laptop that complications related to his diabetes. Norman move out of he operates with his head. “hAvIng A jOb TO gO TO dAILY MeAns A LOT TO Me. After initial treatment in the hospital, nursing homes and I feeL LIke A prOduCTIve MeMber Of sOCIeTY nOW. a social worker recommended that he achieve an independent She coordinated in-home chore Bryan, 32, first got involved finish his recovery in a nursing home. life in the community. services, nursing services, and with the Life Skills CIL Ebay I AM AbLe TO puT MY skILLs TO use.” fThe move to the nursing home was training for Norman to learn how training project last year to learn Norman has four disabilities that b well-intentioned, but Norman quickly to treat his diabetes independently. how to market and sell products posed challenges to his moving found himself stuck there, with no She also helped identify accessible using Ebay. The Life Skills CIL is the Monroe branch office “The partnership with the Ann Arbor CIL makes out of the nursing home. He has options to help him get out. transportation for him to get to of the Ann Arbor CIL. Today Bryan serves as a marketer sense on all levels,” said Mike. “We want to expand our diabetes that requires him to get kidney dialysis appointments. Finally, and developer for the Center’s emerging joint-partnership business, and we need high quality employees to do “It was lonely there, and I felt stuck. insulin three times per day. He has she helped advise Norman on the with private industry, which aims to create a training so. People with disabilities make great employees.” With I wanted to get out,” Norman said. “The a vision impairment that makes it significant event that was about to and employment center for people with disabilities in plans to house a production facility at the Ann Arbor CIL nursing home was not made for me.” difficult for him to read a glucometer take place. Southeast Michigan. building, staff members of the Ann Arbor CIL will recruit Norman, 48, was not alone. He was and administer the correct dosage employees, provide training, and offer on-going support Before moving day, Norman said, “I The Ann Arbor CIL and Rodnick, Co., maker of gourmet one of a large number of individuals of insulin on his own. He has to employees to ensure their success. with disabilities who are living in neuropathy, which causes him to need was nervous. But I was excited, too. I fruit and gift baskets, are teaming up to create a marketing, nursing homes but don’t need to be. a wheelchair to get around. And he knew I had to do it.” production, and distribution center staffed by a majority of For now, while the partnership is in development, people with disabilities. “Because there are so many aspects to Bryan handles customer communication, marketing, and has kidney disease that requires him “Looking back, I realize what an Ann Arbor CIL staff member Julia the gift basket business, individuals with a wide variety of skill online sales for Rodnick on Ebay, and in turn is receiving to need dialysis three times per week. incredibly life-changing event Norman Plaggemeyer heard about Norman levels and abilities will be able to be employed at all stages of valuable training and skill development. went through and how privileged I and got involved. The CIL’s Nursing Despite these challenges, the business. Individuals with the most severe challenges and was to take part in it,” Julia said. “Working with the CIL has helped me see that anyone Facility Transition Program, funded Norman was motivated to achieve those with the highest levels of education will work side by can do anything,” Marone said. “Things I previously through Medicare, and done in an independent life. To enable a The transition to an independent side,” said Mike Marone, Managing Partner of Rodnick. thought of as limitations or barriers I now see as move, Julia worked with him to life in the community went as opportunities. By embarking on this project, we’re not secure an apartment and arranged planned. Norman now goes to kidney lowering any standards; were raising the bar.” for appropriate household items. dialysis three times a week and uses accessible public transportation to Bryan is proof positive. “Bryan’s customer service is get there on his own. He prepares a outstanding,” eBay instructor Mark Rawlings said. “He’s lot of his own meals in his apartment an example for everyone.” Mike added, “This partnership but says with a smile, “I order out once inspires me as an entrepreneur. Success means more in a while from Jimmy John’s. I really jobs and more benefits to individuals with disabilities. It’s like that place.” Norman also goes amazing to see the impact. It’s exciting.” Rodnick, Co. is downstairs and sits outside with his based in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan. neighbors regularly. “We talk about different things,” he says. “And I go places by myself. I have freedom.”

“I’M verY grATefuL fOr The heLp I gOT In geTTIng here. I hAve A gOOd LIfe here. I feeL gOOd When I ThInk AbOuT MYseLf nOW.” 28 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 29 at the ann arbor center for independent living annual gala new grants awarded: At the Ann Arbor CIL, we understand first-hand what this year, the ann arbor Cil’s it means to have a disability. benefit & auction program research and development That’s because we, too, face the group was “on a roll!” led by director challenges of disability every day. of program research and development by the numbers: More than fifty percent of our staff, edward Wollmann, the Center was board members and volunteers awarded two significant new federal 2,472 children, youth, and adults are people with disabilities. with disabilities received 4,692 grants propelling us to a new level of independent living support Founded in February of 1976, national attention for our work. services this year. on top of we were the fourth Center for that, more than 2,000 individu- the u.S. department of education’s als benefited from our disability Independent Living in the nation. office of Special education and awareness and Sensitivity train- There are now more that 600 CILs rehabilitative Services awarded the ing programs at local schools, across the U.S. and throughout universities, and organizations. Center’s Sports and recreation program the world. $315,000 over the next three years to provide recreational activities and those we served educational experiences for individuals in our disability community. just a few by gender by age of the activities made possible through Female: 53% This year, more than 125 people came to the Ann Arbor CIL on September 11 this grant include tennis, cycling, 70% community gardening, visual arts, 12% to raise money for the Center at our annual Gala Benefit and Auction. Volunteers transformed our warehouse into an elegant event hall, and in a lively and engaging bowling, and quad rugby. during the Male: 47% 25-59 1% Over 60 8% atmosphere, guests helped us raise more than $35,000. Donors bid on such next three years this initiative will help 9% Under 5 us propel the employment, mobility, 5-19 items as a guitar signed by Kid Rock, an “Off the Wall” album signed by Michael by race or ethnicity 20-24 socialization, independence, and Jackson, and an African safari vacation. The live auction also raised funds for a American Indian/Alaska Native: < 1% fully accessible family restroom to be built at the CIL, which will allow members of community inclusion of our disability Asian: 2% The Ann Arbor CIL’s annual our disability community to use the restroom privately and with greater ease. We community to new heights. Black/African-American: 26% financial audit is available by Hispanic/Latino: < 1% thank all those who helped make this such a successful event. in addition, the u.S. Small Business Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: < 1% contacting our Chief Executive Two or More Races: <1% administration awarded the Center White/Caucasian: 71% Officer at [email protected]. $1,000,000 over the next five years to provide increased small business there’s more than you think to the disability community: development supports to entrepreneurs disabilities served by the Ann Arbor CIL: in our community, and to conduct new research on the effect of social AD/HD Cognitive Impairment Muscular Dystrophy Agent Orange Deaf/Hearing Impaired Narcolepsy capital development supports in Alzheimer’s Dementia Organ Transplant microenterprise programs and the means Amputation Depression Recipient Arthritis Developmental Parkinson’s Disease to increase awareness about effective Asthma/Emphysema Disability PTSD practices among microenterprise Autism/Asperger’s Diabetes Post-Polio Syndrome development practitioners across the Autoimmune Disorder Emotional Impairment Pulmonary Disease Back Injury Epilepsy/Seizure Short Stature/ Little country. through this initiative, the ann Blind/Visually Impaired Fibromyalgia Person arbor Cil stands to become a nationally- Bone/Joint Disorder HIV/AIDS Sleep Apnea Brain Disorder Kidney Disease Spinal Cord Injury recognized leader in the field of small Brain Injury Learning Disability Stroke business development supports for Cancer/Cancer Survivor Lupus Substance Abuse disadvantaged micro-entrepreneurs. Cardiovascular Disorder Mental Health Other condition that Carpal Tunnel Challenge causes substantial Cerebral Palsy Morbid Obesity limitation of a major life Chemical Sensitivity Multiple Sclerosis activity 30 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition 31 ACCESS 2010 | 20th AnnuAl Edition The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living Gratefully Noodles and Co. Salem Lutheran Church Voter Access Coalition of non-profit partners benefactors, sponsors, Northville Public Schools Salon 328 Washtenaw County Acknowledges NSK Corporation Schokolad Chocolate Factory Barbara Watson, Adaptive Sports Coalition Habitat for Humanity Premier Designs High Fashion Ann Arbor District Library Housing Bureau for Seniors foundations & grantors NuStep Select Ride Jewelry the Following Ann Arbor Jewish Family Services O’Connor Selo/Shevel Gallery The WAVE Hearing Center Housing Commission Legal Services of SE Michigan Serendipity Gallery Mary Waxer, Varsity Ford Sales Ann Arbor Thrift Shop businesses OHM Engineering Advisors SERVPRO of and Leasing Lions Club Ann Arbor Transportation Old Town Washtenaw County Wayne State University Michigan Ability Partners Chelsea Community Hospital Eisenhower Center Authority 16 Hands Aunt Agatha’s Jelinek Orchards Outdoor Athlete Seva Restaurant Department of Michigan Disability Rights Mystery Book Ann Arbor Public Schools A&A Driving School Chelsea Hospital Catering Elephant Ears Kaizen Healing Arts Pacific Rim by kana Shalimar Indian Restaurant Occupational Therapy Coalition Ayla & Co Ann Arbor YMCA Abilities! Chelsea Flower Shop Elmo’s Main Street T-Shirts Kaleidoscope Panera Bread Silver Maples of Chelsea WDIV-TV Michigan Prisoner Reentry Bana Salon and Spa Area Agency on Aging 1B Initiative Abracadabra Jewelry Christian Roux, Ltd English Gardens Kellogg Eye Center Park Shoe Repair Sleeping Bear Press Weber’s Inn bd Mongolian Barbeque Association for Community Michigan Theater Acclaim Private Citizens Insurance eve- the restaurant Kalous Case Management PEAC Spartan Medical Supply Law Offices of Home Care, Inc Beer Depot D. Louis Weir Advocacy Michigan Thunderbirds Coach’s Catastrophe Cleaning Falling Water Books Key Bank John Payne, Attorney Spartan Stores Athletes with Disabilities Wheelchair Sports Acme Mercantile Bellanina Day Spa Collected Works and Collectables Koester Performance West End Grill The Peaceable Kingdom Special Tree Hall of Fame Advantage Mobility Dr Steve Bennett, First Unitarian Research Western Washtenaw Area MSU Extension Services Comerica Peckham Rehabilitation System FAAO/ Bennett Optometry Universalist Church Value Express Avalon Housing Neutral Zone Advisacare Comfort Keepers Lake Forest Golf Club Spectrum Health Performance Network Theater Big Brothers Big Sisters of Adorn Me Bentheim Ben Fletcher, photographer Laketown Township Hall Wheelchair Getaways Ovarian Cancer Society Reform Church Common Grill Pfizer United Way Campaign Sundance Grill and Bar Washtenaw County Aegis Health Footprints Leelanau Cellars Wheelchair Sports Ozone House Communications Phoenix Contractors, Inc. Suwanee Springs Brain Injury Association of Perspectives, Inc Best Western Found Who Wants to be a Millionaire Partners in Personal Assistance Greenfield Inn Access Center Lexi’s Toy Box TeaHaus Ann Arbor Michigan Fourth Avenue Pizza Hut with Meredith Vieira All American Community Living Services Liberty Athletic Club Catholic Social Services Paws with a Cause Role Models The Black Pearl Seafood and Birkenstock Planet Rock Ten Thousand Villages Whole Foods Martini Bar Compuware Arena Liberty Street Robot Supply Community Housing Trinity Lutheran Church All Sewn Up Friends of Liz Brater Princess Designs Toledo Zoo Wiard’s Orchards and Blue Cross Blue Shield Cornerstone Design Inc. and Repair Alternatives University of Michigan, Allstate Fusion Medical PRP Wine International Trader Joe’s Country Fair Office of Services for of Michigan Corporation for National Com- Lily’s Garden Community Residence Tree Town Acupuncture Wireless Toys Students with Disabilities Anderson Paint Company Blue Nile Restaurant munity Service Garrison Lawhouse PC Limno-Tech, Inc. Purple Rose Theater Corporation United Way of Toledo Women Out Working University of Michigan Ann Arbor Bed and Breakfast Country Hearth Inn Georgetown Girls Quality Home Medical Equip- Communication Access Blue Water Café Logan Restaurant Initiative on Disability Ann Arbor Civic Theater General Motors Mobility ment, Inc UM Council for Wright and Filippis Center for the Deaf David Boland, pianist Cupcake Station Lucky Monkey Disability Concerns Studies Glacier Hills Home Care Quality Suites Youth Empowerment Project Deaf Can Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase Boys and Girls Club Cynthetics Tattoo Parlour Washtenaw Affordable R&R Industries University of Michigan Health Ann Arbor GMAC Macaroni Grill Ypsilanti Marriott Dawn Farms Nonprofit Housing Bra-Vo Intimates The Daily Show with John Science Libraries at Eagle Crest Commerce Bank Stewart Grange Kitchen and Bar Masar’s Arline Rainbow Rehabilitation Eastern Michigan Univer- Corporation Breakaway University of Michigan Zap Zone sity GEAR UP Ann Arbor Commission on DaVinci’s Salon and Gallery Hagopian Cleaning Services Master Visions The Recovery Project, LLC Health System Washtenaw Community College Disability Issues Busch’s Zingerman’s EMU Disability Resource Days Inn Hearing Loss Association of Mathilde’s Imports Reddeman Farms University of Michigan Home Washtenaw Intermediate Ann Arbor Ice Cube Capital Region Golf Club Bakehouse Center School District Community Foundation The Detroit Lions, Inc Ann Arbor Maximum Delights Care Services Ann Arbor Red Hawk Bar and Grill Zion Methodist Church Fair Housing Center Washtenaw Youth Caesars Windsor Detroit Red Wings HearUSA McCormick Rehab University of Michigan Spinal Therapeutic Massage Red Shoes LLC Cord Injury Model System Zola Café and Bistro Food Gatherers Mentoring Coalition Campbell Dick’s Market Heavenly Metal The Melting Pot Arbor Beverage Company Red Wings Hockey University of Michigan Motor Zulu Nya Fresh Start Club House Ypsilanti Housing Communications disAbility Connections Heberle and Finnegan Mental Health Arbor Wellness Control Lab First Unitarian Universalist Commission Carelinc Hennessy Capital Association of Michigan Rehab Transportation The Arc Michigan The Doctors Show University of Michigan Orthot- Church Ypsilanti Thrift Shop Medical Equipment Hillers Market Michigan Paralyzed Veterans REI Arctic Coliseum Dogma Catmantoo ics and Prosthetics Center Caryn Elise Photography Holy Family Catholic Church of America ResCare Premier Aquila Corporation Domino’s Pizza University of Medicine Physi- CASA of Hungry Howie’s Michigan Sports Unlimited RideConnect cal Medicine and Rehabilita- The Arena Washtenaw County Downtown Home foundations/government entities and Garden Hylant Group Inc Miners Den Rodnick Co tion Arete Coaching and Consult- Case Handyman The Doctor Phil Show IHOP Mobility Works Romanoff’s UM School of Art Ann Arbor Area Community Maurice McFarland Estate Michigan Rehabilitation Services ing, Inc Centre Street Café Catering Service and Design Bonnie Dunkelberger, Ionia State Monroe County Foundation Michigan Commission for U.S. Department of Education The Ark United Way Nick Roumel, Attorney University Musical Society Charles Reinhart massage therapist Recreation Area Capital Region Community the Bind U.S Department of Veterans Associates in Company Realtors Durham’s Tracklements Sadashi Inuzuka, artist Motawi Tileworks Running Wise and Ford Urban Jewelers Foundation Michigan Community Affairs Physical Medicine Chef Miller City of Ann Arbor Services Commission and Rehabilitation The Earle It’s a Treasure Motte and Bailey Booksellers Rusao Designs LLC/ Varsity Barber Shop United Way of Washtenaw Chelsea Comfort Inn and Becky J Fixel Corporation for National and Michigan Department of County Athletes Unlimited Eastover PTO Jackson Area Subway M&M Music Village Pharmacy II Village Conference Center Ryba’s Bicycle Rentals Community Service Community Health Washtenaw County Audio Craft Edible Arrangements Daniel L Jacob and Company Nacht and Associates Vintage to Vogue (V2V) Safeco Insurance 32 ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition ACCESS 2010 | 20th An n u a l Edition 33 The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living

Gratefully Jillian M. Kerry Joanne Mather Marie Deveny Carol Schleicher Sarah Teare benefactors, sponsors, Megan Keteyian David and Judith Matthews Michelle Pfeiffer Barbara Schoen Bill Teepen Acknowledges David and Jill Killey Debra K Mattison Robin Phillips Fredelle Schneider Neil and Susan Tenpas foundations & grantors Edward and Martha Kimball Timothy and Kathleen Mayotte Greg Piaskowski Anna Schnitzer Paul and Sally Tesar the Following Heidi and Daniel Koester Michele Mazur Jeffrey Pickell Stephen Schwartz Denise Thal Michelle Kouri Robert McBroom Carolyn Pickford E. Seabrough Maria Thomas individuals and families Martha Kransdorf Maurice McFarland Estate Robert Pickford Charles and Marcia Seigerman Carole and Tom Tomsik Eugene Krause James and Joanne McLean Deborah Pohrt Clifford and Ingrid Sheldon David and Karen Ufer Maureen Forrest Tina Abbate-Marzolf Paul Boker Shirley Coombs Mosi Harrington Laurie Krauss Thomas McNamara Constance Poissant Amy Shepherd Nelly Ullman Fletcher Fox James and Jamie Abelson Tanya Boothroyd Noreen Couture Susan Harrington Petra Kuppers Michele Meade Lana Pollack Margaret Sheppard Deborah Queen Glenna Frank-Miller Gerald and Gloria Abrams Gary and Mary Borawski Phillip Creekmore Michael Harris Kristine Kurnit Brock Mealer PJ Pooley Clark and Amy Shuler Pamela Van Buren Eileen Freed Mary Lou and Sam Accordino Thomas Borgula David Crofoot Willie and Linda Harris Walter Kwik Jitendra Mehta Sterling and Shirley Price Paula Shuler Joanne Vanholstyn Carolyn Fuerst Thomas and Yvonne Acton Phillip and Katherine Bowen Jane Curtis Kevin Hartgerink Kathryn Lacroix Andrea Menicucci Neal Probert David Shtulman Emily Vanzale Mary Galsterer Carol Allen David Bowlin Elizabeth Daley V. Charlene Heath JoAnne Ladio Luis Miguel Charles and B. Shunta Janice Verkerke James and Dorine Gapczynski Allan and Jacqueline Michael Boyagian Stephani Davis Wilhelm Heider Jonathan and Heidi Lafever Ellen Mikesell Shirley Rasmussen Chris Siehl Pieter Vreede Anderson Carolyn Garward Melanie Boyle Kimberly Degraaf William Henry Sherri Laing Anita Miller Mark Rawlings Elaine Siehl Thomas and Mary Wakefield Mary Andrews Karrie Gaudette Pamela Brazil Rolf and Ingrid Deininger Robin Herman Darius Laucius Brooke Mills Elisabeth Rees Gegorgiana Siehl Kathleen Waterloo Sharon Angeline Roxanne Gerds Aaron Brinkman Gina Denhof Bert Herzog Bridget Laundra Joan Mills Joel Regnery Eliezer Siwa John Waterman Laurel Angus Eeta Gershow James Brown Dorothy Denner Daniel and Lynn Heumann Jusin Lazar Dawn Milz David Reid James Skupski Barbara Van Westrienen Robert Anthony Patti Gerth Paula Brown Jeanine Diller William Hill Edwina Ledgard Lori Misch Douglas and Beth Reid John Slevin Pam Watson Alicia Aniel Robert Gerwin Mary Browning Rep. John Dingell and Debbie Hoatlin-Dunn and Helen Ledgard Stnaley Mish Mark Reinstein Matthew and Stacey Soderman Eric Weaver John and Linda Armitage Mrs. Debbie Dingell Arlett Gibbons Mike Dunn Elza Bryan Laura Lein Michael Mitchell Barbara Richards Debra Somand Brian and Cindi Webster Shannon Arnott Mary Dolinsky Beverly Giltrow Terry & Barb Hoatlin Karen Buczkowski Leslie Lemanski Angela Moceri George Ridenour Joan E. and William Smith Louis and Susan Weir Glen Ashlock Gary and Kimberly Dowell Mary Glassford Tom Hoatlin LuAnne Bullington Julie Lemieux Margaret Moen David Riggs Paul Smith Ambassador and Mrs. Mark Avery Daniel Dudick Steve Goethel Carol Hoffer Michale Burns Kris Lenzo James Moore Rebecca Roberts Kenneth Spaulding Ron Weiser Eli Avny Kim Dunklin Roxanne Goldammer Steven and Nancy Hoffman Timonthy Burt James and Barbara Leonard Dale Newman Thomas Roberts Mary Jo and David Spaulding Lyndon and Angela Welch Richard and Suzanne Bade Anna Lee Dusbiber Carol Golec Michael and Nina Homel Evelyn Burton Joanne Leonard Els Nieuwenhuijsen Gary and Charlene Rochfort Timothy Spaulding Janet Wesch Joel Bailey Darry and Tobi Dusbiber Karen Gora Brigid Hranchook Jody Burton Diana Little Joanne Nosan Melissa Roemer Lyla Spelbring Jeff Wheaton Peg Ball Francine Dye Susan Hyzer Mary Burton Slowins Alex Gossage Thomas Livezey Lawrence Novak Marianne Romsek Lawrence and Doris Sperling Ted and Marsha Whipple Lisberth Bank Gary Dygert Karen Iwanicki Rep. Pam Byrnes James Gousseff George Lowrie Viola Elaine Nutt Adam Rose Magdalena Spiewla Molly White Lori Bargowski Irene Dziechciarz Kristi Jackson Rhonda Carbary Carolyn Grawi Sandra Loyer Caryn O’Connor Donald and Lori Rose Amber Stack Lloyd Williams Elizabeth Bascom-Kendall Peggy Dzierzawski Carley Jankowski John Carson Frank and Mary Ann Grawi John and Marcella Lucas John L and Marilyn O’Connor Jessica Rougeau Mary Stack Edward Wollmann and David and Lynn Batchelder Richard Eakin Edwina Jarrett Barbara Gardinier Tom and Mary Celusnak Cristine Gray Kathrun Lucas Paul Offhaus Kimberly Rueger-West Michael Stack Shirley Batchelder Dana, Cami and Eric Emerson Carolyn Greenberg Mary Jelinek Dana Woodberg Roanne Chaney Schatzi Ludwig James Olson Sally Rutzky Suzanne Steele Thomas Bayer Richard Emmer David Greenspan Susan Jelinek James Wortley Robalee Chapin Carol and Cliff Lutz David and Constance Osler Eileen Ryan Barbara and Michael Steer Karla Beatty Marcy Epstein Stacey & Scott Greiner Pat Jenio Charles Wright Jen and Lexi Chapin-Smith Jennifer Lynn Dianne Owen Eric Rzeppa Nell Sten Leon and Suzanne Begue David and Jill Esau James and Penny Griffith Sarah Johnson Jeanine C. Wright Sharon Chapman Geraldine Mack Nancy Page Toni Rzeppa Gary Stelzer and Nancy Paulette Belser Ruth Ewing Robert Green Therese Johnson Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith Dennis Clancy M. Macy Blair Parent James and Patricia Samsel Frushour Deborah Bennett Allam Feidt Beth Griffin Marie Jones Diane Worthing Jane Clark Jim and Patti Magyar Paul and Stella Palazzola Kathleen Sarb Robert and Catherine Stone Rosalyn Biederman Shelia Feld Marion Guck Claire Kalpakjian John and Mary Yablonky Jeffrey Clemens Lisa Mangigian Carol Parker Richard and Norma Sarns J. Stuart William Byorkman Karin Fenz Lisa and John Guliano Leslie Kamil Mayumi Yoneta Marianne Clone Marykay Marks Parag Patel Laura Sartori Mr and Mrs Michael Studier Herbert and Christian Black Elizabeth Ferguson Leroy Hake Daniel and Pat Kaminsky Philip Zazove Sandra Cole Mr and Mrs William Martin Diane Pauli Sally and Lou Scarnecchia Theresa A. 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accessibility Michigan Disability Rights Coalition 3498 E. Lansing Rd, Suite 100 Cornerstone Design Inc East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 333-2477 940 N. Main Street www.copower.org Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (734) 663-7580 The Michigan Disability Rights Coalition: Your Partner in Building Freedom. www.cdiarchitects.com MDRC is a statewide network of individuals and organizations that advance the issues of Michigan’s disability community through grassroots activism, Cornerstone Design provides creative, responsive architectural services for public education and advocacy. MDRC works to build opportunities for all types of projects. A particular specialty is universal design for people people with disabilities so that we may live fully integrated lives within our of all ages and abilities. Firm principal, David Esau, AIA, also consults on chosen communities. accessibility issues through the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living. arts and entertainment acupuncture, herbs & nutrition The Ark Tree Town Acupuncture 316 S. Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2002 Hogback Rd, Suite 14 (734) 761-1800 Office (734) 761-1451 Hotline Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Email: [email protected] (734) 730-2341 Web: www.theark.org www.TreeTownAcupuncture.com The Ark is a non-profit music venue located on Main Street in Ann Arbor Tree Town Acupuncture offers Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and between Liberty and William Streets. Founded in 1965, The Ark is dedicated Nutrition Response Testing to assist people in restoring, improving and to the presentation, preservation, and encouragement of folk, roots, and maintaining their health. Nationally certified, Eric Popp, MAc, Dipl Ac, Dipl CH, ethnic music. is dedicated to providing wholistic, compassionate, high quality care to help people manage a wide variety of health issues including acute and chronic The Ark is wheelchair-accessible and works to accommodate any special pain, fatigue, headache and migraine, autoimmune disorders such as multiple seating needs. Please note that the club doors open ½ hour before a sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and diabetes, asthma, performance. If someone in your party has a wheelchair or special seating infertility, menopause symptoms, PMS and other gynecological disorders, needs, we recommend coming slightly earlier and ringing the doorbell depression, anxiety, insomnia, cancer support and stroke rehabilitation. For located next to our front entry doors so we can seat your party prior to more information, please call or visit our website. entry of the general public. This way we can assure adjacent seating for your friends and family. advocacy Please call with any seating concerns or special needs at (734) 761-1800 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays or email us at [email protected]. Michigan Ability Partners 3810 Packard, Suite 200 assistance dog organizations Ann Arbor, MI 48108 (734) 975-6880 Paws With A Cause 4646 S. Division Michigan Ability Partners is an Ann Arbor-based, non-profit human services agency that partners with people having disabilities related to mental health Wayland, MI 49348 and substance addiction, offering a menu of services designed to promote self (800) 253-PAWS (7297) sufficiency in the areas of homeless recovery, employment, transitional and Email: [email protected] permanent housing, and financial services. MAP also owns a subsidiary, MAP Web: www.pawswithacause.org HDC, LLC, that develops and operates affordable supported housing for people Paws With A Cause trains assistance dogs nationally for people with with disabilities in Washtenaw County. disabilities and provides lifetime team support, which encourages independence. PAWS promotes awareness through education. For more information, please call us or visit our website.

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$25 $50 $100 $250 $500 Other $______Acclaim Private Home Care, Inc ...... 40, 42 Please make check payable to: Ann Arbor CiL Advantage Mobility Outfitters ...... 39, 41 TrAnsporTATion AdvisaCare ...... 39 or charge my Visa masterCard Aegis Health Perspectives/ Aegis Life Care...... 43 All American Roll Models ...... 38, 46 (Write card number below.) Ann Arbor District Library ...... 45 Ann Arbor Transportation Association ...... 36, 48, 49 Ann Arbor YMCA ...... 48 Aquila Corporation ...... 50 Signature ______Area Agency on Aging 1B ...... 43, 47 The Ark ...... 37 Arete Coaching and Consulting, Inc ...... 45 Exp. date: ______PLEASE SEnD to: Associates in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ...... 46, 49 my company’s matching Ann Arbor CIL • 3941 Research Park Dr. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan ...... 42, back cover Brain Injury Association of Michigan ...... 38, 41 gift form is enclosed. Ann Arbor, MI 48108 (734) 971-0277 phone Chelsea Rehab/ Chelsea Community Hospital ...... 41, 43, 47 Community Residence Corporation ...... 43 (734) 971-0826 fax Cornerstone Designs, Inc...... 37, 38 [email protected] e-mail Dr. Steven Bennett, FAAO ...... 45 Donor information: Eisenhower Center ...... 38 Please print your name as you wish to be acknowledged. EMU Disability Resource Center ...... 41 Fusion Medical ...... 39, 40 name/s: ______General Motors Mobility Program with OnStar ...... 39 Glacier Hills Home Care ...... 43 Address: ______HearUSA ...... 39, 42 Heberle & Finnegan ...... 44 City: ______Kalous Case Management ...... 39 Kellogg Eye Center...... 45 State: ______ZiP: ______McCormick Rehabilitation Associates, Inc ...... 46 Michigan Ability Partners ...... 37 Phone: ( ) ______Michigan Disability Rights Coalition ...... 37, 42 You can count on us for all your transportation needs. Michigan Rehabilitation Services/ MI Dept. of ELEG...... 42 E-mail: ______Michigan Thunderbirds ...... 48 Taxicab Luxury Limousine Airport Shuttle Check here if you wish to remain anonymous Mobility Works ...... 40, 41 • • • Nacht & Associates...... 44 NuStep ...... 46 Please send me information on the following: Partners in Personal Assistance ...... 43 Corporate sponsorship Major Gift Program Paws with a Cause ...... 37 To select your ride, please call Planned giving, wills & bequests Capital Campaign Quality Home Medical Equipment, Inc...... 40 Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers ...... 38, 40, 46 John Weir scholarship endowment fund Volunteer opportunities The Recovery Project, LLC ...... 47 Rehab Transportation ...... 42, 49 734 - 665-1028 ResCare HomeCare ...... 43 AnnuAL GiFt oPtionS ResCare Premier ...... 38 RideConnect ...... 49, 50 If you wish to make an annual gift of $500 or more using multiple Rodnick Co...... 46 contributions, please complete the following: Select Ride, Inc ...... 49, inside back cover Silver Maples of Chelsea ...... 44 i would like to make an Ann Arbor CiLCiL investment of: Spartan Medical Supply ...... 40, 47 $500 $1,000 $2,500 Other $ ______Special Tree ...... 39, 44 Yes, I would like to increase the impact of my gift Tree Town Acupuncture ...... 37 U of M Home Care Services ...... 2, 40, 44, 45, 50 by making a multi-year commitment for ______years and a U of M Home Medical Equipment ...... 40 total contribution of $ ______U of M Orthotics & Prosthetics Center...... 46, 50 U of M Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ...... 47, 48, inside front cover Enclosed is my first contribution of $ ______U of M Services for Students with Disabilities ...... 41 Optional payment plans are available. Washtenaw Intermediate School District ...... 41 Washtenaw Youth Mentoring Coalition ...... 50 Thank you for your support. It truly makes a difference! Wheelchair Getaways ...... 49 Wright and Filippis ...... 41 gifts to the Ann Arbor Cil are tax-deductible. the Ann Arbor Cil is Youth Empowerment Project ...... 49, 50 a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, nonprofit / Mi Cs9599. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is a proud recipient of the US Business Leadership Network’s 2009 Lead Employer of the Year award for exemplifying best practices in hiring, retaining and advancing workers with disabilities, and partnering with other employers to initiate, establish and expand opportunities for employees with disabilities in the workplace.

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