UCP Michigan News

7th Annual Bash for United Cerebral Palsy!

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:17:00 -0500

Join us for food, dancing, and a fabulous silent auction at Eagle Eye Golf Club on Saturday, February 12, 2011. View the flyer for more information!

UCP Michigan welcomes new executive director

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:34:00 -0500

Brockel is the former executive director of Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (NTAP), and has served as executive director for Law Access New Mexico. She has a long history of advocacy for people with disabilities, including as an attorney with the Mental Health project at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality and as executive director of the AIDS Survival Project.

Brockel has exceptional qualifications and experience leading advocacy organizations and protecting the rights of people with disabilities, says Jackie Doig, UCP board president. We look forward to her leadership at this time of tremendous challenge and opportunity for advancing independence and inclusion for people with disabilities. Brockel earned a juris doctorate at Georgia State University College of Law and completed a bachelor of arts degree in communication and psychology at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

UCP Michigan Elects New Board Members

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:54:00 -0500

Sauter is a project coordinator for the Crawford, Ogemaw, Otsego and Roscommon (COOR) Intermediate School District in Roscommon, where he created a program to help youth with disabilities find employment after high school. He also is a former-adjunct professor of psychology at Jackson Community College. In 2008, he trekked 830 miles across Michigan on stilts to help raise awareness for cerebral palsy and more than $80,000 for UCP Michigan programs.

Warschausky is an associate professor for the University of Michigans Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He founded the Adaptive Cognitive Assessment Laboratory and has been the principal investigator on grants for the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education to study the neuropsychology of cerebral palsy.

Welcome to United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan!

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:24:00 -0500

Click on any of the links below to read about our current programs:

All Aboard! Michigan Transportation Advocacy Project
Everyone Together
Information & Referral - call us at 1.800.828.2714 to speak with our Information and Referral staff or Click Here to e-mail us your question
Life In Focus
Michigan Assistive Technology Loan Fund
Michigan TeleWork Loan Fund
Pathways Newsletter
UP AT Center
Work Incentives Planning & Assitance Project (WIPA)
Workshops - if you'd like someone to come and speak to your group, please contact us.

Your help is needed!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:32:00 -0500

We need to continue efforts to urge federal legislation to protect all students. It is essential that legislation prohibiting restraint or seclusion be written into an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or other student planning document. It is critically important to protect parent and student rights.

Please see the issue brief below regarding the importance of prohibiting the use of restraint and seclusion as planned interventions, written for the APRAIS Coalition by COPAA Board Members and Government Affairs Committee Co-Chairs Leslie Seid Margolis, Esq. and Robert Berlow, Esq. and former Board Member and COPAA Chair and current Government Affairs Committee member Jessica Butler, Esq. Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools brief.

Call your Senators and Chris Dodd, the bill's sponsor at (202) 224-2823 or (860) 258-6940 to voice your opinion.