Rise Up this Saturday !!! Sep 21, 2024 at 10 AM

Hi friends!

I'm excited to see you this Saturday for our next Rise Up gathering!! 

- Date: September 21st

- Time: 10 AM

- Location: Franklin United Methodist Church, 82 West Central St, Franklin, MA (parking and ramp/entrance on left side)

Agenda: 

- Open social time

- Group social time and clay craft (if you choose to)

- Announcements & Wrap-up

*Please help us maintain a fragrance-free environment for allergy reasons (no perfume, cologne, etc.)

It would be fantastic if you could share this with your networks, as anyone 18+ is welcome to attend - disability or not!

See you then!

Ali Rheaume

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This one-hour social meet-up is intended to be a safe space for:

• individuals navigating life with disability to meet others they can relate with
• community partners to learn more about the population and share resources
• support persons to meet other support persons

For additional information about this event, please visit ->   https://alirheaume.com/rise-up

Navigating life with disability? Check out the Rise Up group meeting Saturday at 10 AM to see if it is for you

Crowd sourced info for navigating with disabilities: "Boston entrepreneur looks to build a ‘Waze for accessibility’"

"Great ideas sometimes come to people in the shower or while stuck in traffic. For Jake Haendel, lightning struck when he was accidentally locked in a bathroom stall at a nightclub near North Station.

Haendel, 34, suffers from a rare neurological disorder, has trouble with fine motor control, and needs an electric scooter to get around. After being unable to grasp and unlock the stall door, he had to text his friends at their table in the restaurant next door, Guy Fieri’s Tequila Cocina, to come help.

“It’s definitely not funny, but I do laugh about the absurdity of it,” he told a Globe reporter in recounting the incident, which happened in September 2021. “Places are called ‘accessible,’ but in this meaningless, broad term.”

Continue reading the article at the Boston Globe (subscription may be required)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/29/business/after-harrowing-life-journey-boston-entrepreneur-looks-build-waze-accessibility/

Crowd sourced info for navigating with disabilities: "Boston entrepreneur looks to build a ‘Waze for accessibility’"