Join The Kelsey, The Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, and disability rights leaders as discuss what’s working, what’s needed, and how each of us can promote inclusion where at home, work, and play.
Join The Kelsey, The Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, and disability rights leaders as discuss what’s working, what’s needed, and how each of us can promote inclusion where at home, work, and play.
Shannon Des Roches Rosa has been writing about autism and parenting since 2003. She’s the co-founder of Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism and the editor of the book by the same name.
Learn more about the Together We Can Do More Initiative happening right now in your community. Find more resources including the full report on our Learn Center. See how we’re applying this to The Kelsey Ayer Station and The Kelsey Civic Center.
The Kelsey Co-Founder Micaela Connery’s podcast interview with Kim Albrecht, the founder of advocacy organization LOMAH discussing disability-forward housing for families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
What a year it’s been — fun and challenging, and full of ideas and questions. Every day brings us closer to our goal of building a new model of inclusive community and permanently changing the housing sector to be a more inclusive one across ability and income.
The Kelsey is one of several organizations committed to new solutions to the housing crisis adults with disabilities face in Santa Clara and beyond. We’re grateful for the advocacy of Housing Choices, the Lanterman Housing Alliance, and others who work to create more housing for this community.
At The Kelsey, we talk a lot about inclusive communities and the type of people who would want to live in them. We often use the term “Inclusion Natives” to describe people with and without disabilities who grew up in inclusive settings. We want to take a moment to explain what we mean when we talk about Inclusion Natives and why they are so important to our work.
Micaela Connery discusses Harvard Kennedy School’s support of the first Social Innovation and Change Initiative workshops with people of all abilities across the country.
The work the Center for American Progress and their partners are doing to ensure disability policy has a permanent home in progressive politics is fundamental to ensuring people with disabilities have access to the protections, supports, and services they need. We’re excited to fight for access, inclusion, and equity alongside them.