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- Investigative Report on Immigration Detention Released Today, Sept. 18, 2019 (9/18/2019) - CCDC wants to thank the ACLU of Colorado for your groundbreaking (and heart breaking) expose. We are proud to partner with this great organization and with CREEC who is also doing this work and look forward to working with anyone interested to assure that immigrants and asylum seekers with disabilities are treated fairly and humanely. ---------- Forwarded message… …
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- No to Oppression Olympics (7/18/2019) - 1385 S. Colorado Blvd. Bldg. A, Ste. 610 Denver, Colorado 80222 303.839.1775 www.ccdconline.org Julie Reiskin Executive Director jreiskin@ccdconline.org 720.961.4261 (Direct) 303.648.6262 (Fax) CCDC was made aware that yesterday an ADAPT leader Bruce Darling made an inappropriate comment saying that Democrats cared more about immigrants than people with disabilities. Mr. Darling has apologized in writing for these comments and has… …
- Nonprofits would benefit from FAMLI Act –By Julie Reiskin (4/29/2019) - Letters to the Editor | April 23, 2019 I direct a small nonprofit with not a penny extra, and I am in full support of House Bill 188, the FAMLI Act. This law would give employees partial pay replacement during a personal or family medical situation. We have covered the full salary for our employees on medical leave. Is it… …
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- OPINION | A couple of bills to boost affordable housing — without a tax hike (4/29/2019) - If you follow the news or talk to your neighbors, you know Colorado is in the midst of an affordable-housing crisis. The health and well-being of individual Colorado families is at risk as the cost of housing forces them to live in unhealthy homes, prevents them from having a stable place to live, and consumes so much of their income… …
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- Julie Reiskin quoted in Denverite regarding affordable housing for people with developmental.disabilities (4/8/2019) - "Julie Reiskin, executive director of the advocacy group Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, is not involved with Stepping Stone. Reiskin has an adult child with a disability and understands the concerns parents like Barbara Ziegler and Arendt have for their children. “Some kind of permanent affordable housing is what they need,” Reiskin said. “What you’re talking about is someone with very low… …
- Community Foundation, Boulder County: GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT: COLORADO CROSS-DISABILITY COALITION (3/18/2019) - Advocating for disability rights, the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) – a grantee of your Community Foundation – advances social justice for people with all types of disabilities. “What do we mean by ‘cross-disability?’” says Executive Director Julie Reiskin. “We believe that people with different types of disability have more in common than we think. So rather than focusing on a single disability, we… …
- Carrie Ann Lucas, Champion for Disabled Parents, Dies at 47 (3/1/2019) - Carrie Ann Lucas, second from left, in 2018 in Windsor, Colo., with her children, from left, Asiza, Heather, Adrianne and Anthony. Ms. Lucas fought for the rights of the disabled, especially those who are parents. By Katharine Q. Seelye Feb. 27, 2019 Carrie Ann Lucas, who championed people, especially parents, with disabilities and won a major lawsuit to make Kmart more… …
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- CCDC Civil Rights Legal Program Director Featured on KDVR (12/5/2018) - CCDC's Civil Rights Legal Program Director, Kevin Williams, was featured on KDVR's Monday night broadcast in remembrance of President George H.W. Bush. "President Bush said himself the greatest thing he did during the course of his presidency was to sign the Americans with Disabilities Act," Kevin said during the interview. Click here for the full story. …
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- No room for those in wheelchairs to wait at RTD bus stops (11/19/2018) - See article: 9 News Steve Staeger and 9 News Anchor Kyle Clark cover the terrible lapse in disability discrimination statutes: as Julie Reiskin describes during the interview along with others, there are bus stops that do not have sidewalks leading to the bus stop. Cities claim they have no obligation to create a sidewalk where one does not exist. RTD makes the… …
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- CCDC in the News: Denver dad of 8-year-old he calls ‘a danger to the community’ getting help from health care company Father: ‘Beacon is changing its tune.’ (10/28/2018) - Channel 7 News cover story about CCDC helping once again: Julie Reiskin, CCDC Executive Director, quoted. …
