ACI's Social Recreation Program recently enjoyed one of America's favorite past times by attending a Somerset Patriots baseball game against the Long Island Ducks on Monday, August 17th, 2015. Thank you to everyone who came out!
A class of 11 students at Montgomery High School recently completed Tier 2 of It's All About Work. We would like to thank the students for all their hard work over the summer as well as Allison Imbrialle of NJ Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, who spoke about the division's services.
On August 16th, the Core Advisory Group (CAG) held its monthly meeting. CAG, hosted by ACI, is an effort, sponsored by FEMA, to include people with disabilities directly in emergency planning. Thank you to Joe Geleta of NJ 211, John Fergurson of Middlesex County Office of Emergency Management, Joe Amoroso of NJ Division of Disability Services and Jim Flemming of FEMA for their presentations.
If you would like to attend our next CAG meeting and live in Middlesex County, then please register on our website.
On August 11th, 15 people attended a workshop on New Jersey's law against discrimination and employment. The workshop was conducted by Edward Haas, Legal Specialist of the NJ Division on Civil Rights. Thank you to Edward for the useful information!
Be sure to look for similar workshops on the civil rights of people with disabilities that ACI will be holding periodically.
Let us know why you have what it takes to be the Parade Marshal for #NJDPP 2015! Send us your essay (no more than 100 words) by September 4th and we will choose a Grand Marshal to lead the parade! Please include a picture of yourself with the submission.
You can email your paragraph to NJDisabilityPride@adacil.org with NJDPP Marshal in the subject line or mail a hard copy to ACI. Entries will be chosen by committee.
On July 29th, 2015, ACI held another Charity by Design Fundraiser at the Alex and Ani store in Red Bank, NJ. We would like to thank everyone who came out and supported ACI as well as the people who called in to place their orders. A special thank you also goes out to the amazing staff at Alex and Ani: Danielle, Roxy, Mel and Amanda!
ACI's Social Recreation Program recently enjoyed a grand highlight tour of the Newark Museum. The tour started with various art pieces from such backgrounds as Japanese, Native American, African and Early American, followed by a special tour of the word famous Ballantine House, which at the time was at the center of the country's industrial movement. The group even got a chance to see NASA's newly constructed 7-layered golden mirror telescope, which will ultimately replace the Hubble Telescope. Thank you to the Newark Museum for providing this free tour to our group! Everyone had a great time!
