“You’ve got to fight for what you want,” was a key message from the 2012 Access Press Charlie Smith Award winner. Charles “Chuck” Van Heuveln and his supporters recounted his…
Day: November 9, 2012
MN-CCD poised to make key changes
The Minnesota Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (MN-CCD) continues to implement a reorganization plan that will bring many changes for the people and groups it serves. MN-CCD members groups heard…
Dale Street Place provides needed housing option
In St. Paul, people coping with mental illness and chemical dependency have a newly renovated place to call home. Two years and $12.5 million later, the Redeemer Arms Apartments have…
Editor's Column - November 2012
About 200 people joined Access Press for the ninth annual Charlie Smith Award Banquet on November 2, and it was a blast! We gathered for dinner to honor Chuck Van Heuveln,…
Pioneering pastor struggled to find transportation
In June 1972 Barbara Andrews was one of a group of persons with disabilities who urged the Bill of Rights Committee of the Minnesota Constitutional Study Commission to include a…
Priorities include personal care attendant pay rates
When the 2013 Minnesota Legislature gavels into session Jan. 8, the Minnesota Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (MN-CCD) will be ready with its legislative agenda. However, leaders of the state’s…