   
 Resources for Accessibility
Did you know that
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital has a
new Home Modification Program?
 Designs
for Life is a program where a certified aging-in-place specialist
provides a comprehensive design plan for individuals looking to function
safely and independently in their homes.
A certified specialist visits the home of a client and develops an
individualized home modification plan. The plan is structured to meet the
needs of the client in the most aesthetically pleasing manner.
Read about this exciting new program at
http://www.goodshepherdrehab.org/home-modification/index.asp.
The Acceptance through Accessibility Action Committee of the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Synod provides materials, guidelines, and other resources for
assisting congregations and groups to be accepting and accessible.
Click here for stories and pictures
of congregations that made their buildings accessible.
Attitudes are the biggest barriers to access for people with mental,
physical, and sensory challenges. All faiths embrace the vision of
including all people in their faith communities. However, people with
disabilities are often not included in congregational life.
Access
happens when congregational members overcome fears of difference, accept
people with disabilities as people first whose "difference" and gifts
enrich congregational life, and then make the program and building
adaptations, if needed, for a "barrier-free" congregation.
 Resources for
Acceptance through Accessibility Sunday include an
informational letter
with litany and hymn, an invitation to observe Acceptance through
Accessibility Sunday with suggestions for prayer petitions and hymns, and
Access-Ability for Caring Congregations, a series of bulletin
inserts on disabilities.
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