{"id":428,"date":"2018-11-09T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:25:07","slug":"commission-on-disability-has-six-open-seats","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/2018\/11\/09\/commission-on-disability-has-six-open-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission on Disability Has Six Open Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do need your help and the sky&#8217;s the limit.&nbsp; We have an important mission<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to cause the full integration and participation of people with disabilities in our Town<\/li>\n<li>to eliminate barriers and to assist people living with disabilities in becoming empowered to advocate for themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The commission is taking on new life and we invite you to be part of this important work.&nbsp; We need the valuable perspective and great energy of people who live with a disability (visible or invisible) to clarify where our town may present barriers to full participation in community life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We need help to prioritize our efforts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to raise general awareness<\/li>\n<li>provide information and referral to important resources for community members facing challenges<\/li>\n<li>to advise the town in its projects and day to day work from the perspective of people living with disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many hands make light work, many heads make better decisions, and many hearts unite our community.&nbsp; Please consider joining this effort.&nbsp; There is much to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Contact us by email at <a href=\"mailto:disability@sudbury.ma.us\">disability@sudbury.ma.us<\/a> or leave a message at (978) 639 -3265.&nbsp; We will get back to you as soon as possible.&nbsp; You may want to look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/application-for-appointment-to-a-town-board-or-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointment application<\/a> that is required to go to the Selectmen who appoint members to the COD.<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting of the COD will be held on Monday Nov 26 at 10 AM.&nbsp; Location to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can help make Sudbury even better. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/2018\/11\/09\/commission-on-disability-has-six-open-seats\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Commission on Disability Has Six Open Seats\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6,114,329],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/disability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}