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From Participant to Employee

  I remember when my MRC counselor first brought up Triangle. In my head I said to myself, “great—finally somewhere they can’t discriminate and tell me that I was a great candidate for the job but just not what they were looking for.” I remember after a while feeling as if maybe people like myself weren’t meant to be in the working world. I finally made an appointment for a tour of Triangle. As Read more…

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Op-ed: Violent beating of a man with a disability illustrates the need for safety & self-defense

Family spokesman David Boyd and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, IllA recent beating of a young man with a disability in Chicago (1) has captured national attention, yet hate-motivated violence is not the only threat people with disabilities face. Bureau of Justice Statistics (2) show that people with disabilities are twice as likely to experience violence as those without disabilities to be victims of all types of Read more…

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