Computers for the Blind (CFTB) has received a grant from Delta Gamma Foundation to provide 85 consumers with fully accessible desktop computers & monitors for $50. Consumers must send award letter showing that they are on SSI, not SSDI to be eligible. Previous grant recipients are not eligible. For $10 a state agency or consumer can also obtain the license key to obtain Talking…
For Immediate Release, with Photo April 15, 2016 Contact: Ruby Moore, 404-885-1234, info@thegao.org GAO Attorney with Disability to be Admitted U.S. Supreme Court An attorney with the Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) in Decatur is among 13 members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association (DHHBA) who will be sworn in and admitted to the Bar of the…
SAVANNAH, GA – April 14, 2016 – LIFE, INC. is proud to announce that it has received a $12,600 Quality of Life grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The award was one of 107 grants totaling over $735,482 awarded by the Reeve Foundation to nonprofit organizations nationwide that provide more opportunities, access, and daily quality of life…
LIFE’s April Newsletter
LIFE held its annual Accessible Easter Egg hunt this past Saturday at the Kicklighter Learning Center. Included amonst the gazillion regular candy filled eggs, were lots and lots of talking eggs! Children with visual impairments could hear these adorable little eggs screaming, “Yooo hooooo, I’m over here!” When they were found, the eggs shouted, “Yay…you FOUND me!” Many thanks…
It is time to begin the registration process for STEPS (Summer Therapeutic Recreation Program of Summer) Camp for 2016. The Summer Therapeutic Enrichment Program of Savannah, (S.T.E.P.S., Inc./STEPS) is a summer camp for school-age children in Chatham County who have profound, severe and moderate intellectual disabilities. Registration and additional information about this wonderful camp is attached above. The second of three information/registration…
Hello Parents! The 2016 Summer Camp application and the Parent’s Night Out application are now available! For your convenience, both applications have been attached below and are also available on our website at www.friendsofcoastalga.com. Parent’s Night Out is a respite based program that will be tentatively held from 5:30 PM – 9 :00 PM every 4th Saturday of the…
http://www.wjcl.com/news/local-news/life-makes-local-homes-wheelchair-friendly/151770079/story SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (WJCL) – The federally funded Home Accessibility Project is helping disabled people in Southeast Georgia have more wheelchair-friendly homes. Nail by nail, board by board, volunteers built 77-year-old Betty Godbee a backyard ramp that she says to her means freedom, and a whole new life. “It’s going to change …it’s…it’s going to change it,” she…
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs will be accepting Preliminary Applications for its Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) beginning at 12:01 AM on Monday, February 1, 2016 until Sunday, February 7,2016 at 11:59 PM. Preliminary applications are being accepted for all 149 counties that we serve. Preliminary Applications will only be accepted electronically through our system. If you…
