March 1, 2026
WHOSE FUTURE IS IT ANYWAY: A Guide to Self-Advocacy
SELF-ADVOCACY IS HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY to know your rights and responsibilities, stand up for them, and make choices about your own life. By doing these things, your quality of life is vastly improved. The self-advocacy movement began in Sweden in the 1960’s when a group of people with mental retardation drew up a list of requests about how they wanted services delivered and what they wanted from their service providers. Back then what these pioneers did was a novel idea. But not anymore. Now this idea has taken the shape of an international civil rights movement by and for people ... Read more
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