Providing Advocacy, Support, Training, and Resources to Ensure Individuals with Disabilities are Included. Valued. Empowered.
 

Astrive Advocacy is committed to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families by serving as a resource for training and support for individuals, families, employers, policy makers, and members of the community. We are dedicated to develop, grow, and support Individuals with Disabilities, Family Members, Provider Staff, and Community Advocates in their efforts to recognize their value, speak and be heard, and improve access to quality programs and services in all aspects of community life.

 

On-Going Initiative

SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING

Click Here To Be Taken To the Supported Decision-Making page with comprehensive plans, information, and downloadable documents

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picture of the backs of two people going down a road with one walking with a cane and the other using a red scooter
picture of a young boy with short black hair wearing a red shirt holding a pencil and doing work on a paper
picture of three young children, a small boy on the left, a small girl in the middle with her arms around him and the small girl with long brown hair, on the right.
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JUNE FEATURES

 

Learn About Supported Decision-Making

Supported decision making (SDM) is a tool that allows people with disabilities to retain their decision making capacity by choosing supporters to help them make choices. The supporters agree to help the person with a disability understand, consider, and communicate decisions, giving the person with a disability the tools to make his or her own, informed, decisions. (ACLU)

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Dravat Syndrome Awareness Day June 23

Dravet syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), is a rare form of intractable epilepsy that begins in infancy. While seizures persist, other comorbidities such as developmental delay and abnormal EEGs are often not evident until the second or third year of life. Current treatment options are limited, and constant care is required throughout the lifetime.

Where Do Human Rights Begin?

“In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. [...] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt

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