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MCD is seeking passionate individuals to join the Legislative Task Force on Guardianship. This is your chance to address concerns and improve the rights of people with disabilities and older adults under guardianship. Over the past few years, we’ve listened to your feedback and partnered with advocacy groups to create this task force. Now, we need your expertise to develop recommendations that will transform our guardianship system.

The Minnesota Council on Disability is gathering stories and the history of the agency for our 50th Anniversary activities. Your experiences and stories have shaped the disability rights movement and are instrumental in how MCD works. Our history is not possible without you. Do you have photographs or cool items that would help us tell the story of our last fifty years? We want to know your stories and memories.

Disabled Not Disposable is a free virtual conference for health care providers who seek increased knowledge and training on providing quality and dignified care for patients with disabilities. The hope is that this conference will result in decreased health inequities faced by the disability community and improve trust with a community that disproportionately requires complex care. The half-day virtual event will involve four educational sessions between the medical community and the disability community.

The Minnesota Council on Disability (MCD) has learned that an article we published in our October newsletter contained incorrect information about the Medical Assistance for Employed Persons with Disabilities (MA-EPD) program. We offer the following clarifications.

Concerned about the current increase of COVID-19? Get information about how to protect yourself and others. For more information about vaccinations, boosters, free PPE, and test kits, as well as access to therapeutics if you become ill; reach out to the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living Covid Community Coordinator team. Call 1-800-409-5594 or email MDH@mcil-mn.org.

Please join the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living and the Metropolitan Council for a community gathering regarding housing and land use. If you are an adult with a disability living in the metro area, come share your unique perspective and vision for the future. Make a difference in your community!