Dymaneke Mitchell, Ph.D., a member of NBDC and Assistant Professor at National-Louis University Secondary Education Department  announces the publication of her book, Crises of Identifying: Negotiating and Mediating Race, Gender, and Disability Within Family and Schools (Educational Leadership for Social Justice)

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Faced with growing caseloads, declining federal aid, and spiraling health care costs, many states are electing to enroll high-cost individuals with chronic disabilities in Medicaid managed health and long-term service plans. They are doing so in an attempt to place program expenditures on a more sustainable course while simultaneously improving the quality and accessibility of services. The National Council on Disability (NCD) recognizes that managed care techniques can create a pathway toward higher quality services and more predictable costs, but only if service delivery policies are well designed and effectively implemented, and achieve cost savings by improving health outcomes and eliminating inefficiencies, not by reducing the quality or availability of care. Designing and operating a managed care system for children and adults with chronic disabilities poses unique challenges given the highly diverse, wide ranging health and long-term support needs of the disability population. Those challenges multiply when a state attempts to create a unified system of acute health and long-term services that merges Medicare and Medicaid funding streams. Read more »

Although there is much discussion on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there is a dearth of studies about the intersection of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This special issue will focus on articles that critically analyze these intersections, from different disciplinary perspectives. We conceptualize these categories broadly to include interrogations into the lives of people of color but also white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; focus on gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass not only impairment but also the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it. Articles can use a variety of methods such as theory based, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, humanities based and more. These works should highlight the experiences of people, or their representations, with respect to race/ethnicity/nationality and gender/sexuality as they relate to disability. 

Topics include but are not limited to:

 Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

 Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color Read more »

By Phumlani aka Wacko Band 2-14-2013 - I’m the co-founder of G-Tazz Records and the Zululand Gospel Choir. I’ve loved hip hop music since I was young. We used to be a group of young boys and girls doing hip hop dance and music. Some people didn’t like what we were doing because we were sending a good message to the youth. Then I was stabbed next to my spinal cord. I used a wheelchair for a year. Fortunately I’m walking today, although I limp. But I thank God for that.

Now I’m behind the scenes working hard to uplift other talented youth here in South Africa. We came up with a theme focusing on what you are good at with my big brother Johannes for Your True Standpoint. You can join our page on Facebook and Your True Standpoint page as well.
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