by Rachel | May 4, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized, Updates
Last week the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released guidance on disability rights and reasonable accommodations during the pandemic. The guidance lays out accommodations that may be necessary in workplaces, apartment buildings, hospitals, and stores...
by Rachel | May 4, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized, Updates
We just received word that our partners at The Arc of Massachusetts launched a new campaign to recognize family caregivers who are working hard to support the needs of their children and they need your help! The theme of the new campaign is Honoring Families: Admiring...
by Rachel | May 4, 2020 | Featured, Imagining Better, Uncategorized, Updates
The services cliff and its impact Parents face considerable anxiety as adult children with disabilities encounter the services cliff – an end to support services – when transitioning from high school. A lack of access to support services for young adults...
by Rachel | Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, Northeast, Uncategorized, Updates
MFOFC Co-Chair, Sophia Johannson, and MFOFC family leader, Elizabeth Bostic, made waves on the radio this past week on a piece produced by Boston’s NPR News Station, WBUR. These two moms, along with another family caregiver in Massachusetts, painted a vivid...
by Rachel | Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized, Updates
In a search for materials available in Vietnamese for the families she serves, Oanh Bui, MFOFC family leader, compiled this great list of links to information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). She not only found a wealth of resources in Vietnamese, but a bunch of other...
by Rachel | Apr 6, 2020 | Events, Featured, Imagining Better, Updates
Here at MFOFC, we are driven by the vision of empowerment for individual and family support that includes planning, choices and decision-making. Person-centered planning is very much in line with this vision, as it puts the individual at the center, helping them...