Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

POSITION: BRIDGES Coordinator (part-time or potential  full-time )          
SUMMARY:  The Coordinator represents TMHCA in a specific region. Key responsibilities include providing consumers with information, peer support and training, and educational activities directed at building self-advocacy skills promoting rehabilitation and recovery. Coordinators provide technical assistance to BRIDGES teachers and facilitators. Coordinators must be able to [...]

Dear Friends, Associates and Members,
We are pleased to celebrate our 10th Anniversary of Wheel Me On… with you while continuing to look toward the future and providing advocacy. The enclosed brochure highlights our Greater Access program, Military Pride, our interest with Historic Preservation and our philosophy about “wheeling”. We hope you will take the time [...]

April 19, 2007 2nd Annual “Walk & Roll”
The Technology Access Center and the League for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing will team up this year with other disability related Nashville non-profits to raise funds and awareness for disability services in middle Tennessee. This year in addition to the walk for all abilities there will [...]

The Tennessee Mental Health Consumers’ Association has a series of trainings scheduled through the end of 2008. The trainings will be held in April, August, and November 2008. Trainings topics will include Employment options, Housing, Social Security, Health Care, Mental Health Care (including how to tell a powerful recovery story), medications and much more.
Announcing [...]