You’re Invited to Self Advocacy Game Night! Looking for a fun evening to connect with friends, meet new people, and enjoy some friendly competition? Join West Region Self Advocacy for our Self Advocacy Game Night! 🗓 Tuesday, July 21st🕟 4:30–7:00 PM📍 185 High Street, Holyoke, MA ✨ Everyone is welcome!🎲 Read more…
LTA continues to make a positive impact through advocacy, leadership, and community engagement. Members are working together to educate others, influence public policy, and create opportunities for people with disabilities to have their voices heard. Here are some of our recent accomplishments: Join Us! LTA is actively seeking new members. Read more…
West Region Rainbow Support Group is Back!! The Rainbow Support Group provides support and information toindividuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities whoidentify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex,asexual, or are questioning. In this group, we will talk aboutidentity, community support, resources, rights, pride activities, andother topics that are important Read more…
The theme for this year’s event is: The Legacy of Self Advocacy: past, present, and future Are you interested in acting as the Keynote Speaker and sharing your story with everyone at the conference? Do you have valuable skills that you can teach others in a workshop? Download the forms Read more…
As we wrap up 2024, we wanted to take a minute to reflect on all the great memories we made this year and celebrate or successes! West Region self advocates worked hard and accomplished a lot this year. Here are just some of the highlights: Several West Region self advocates Read more…
From September 23-25, 2024 West Region Self Advocate Steven Tobey and Self Advocacy Peer Coordinator, Amber Pettell traveled to Marlborough, MA to participate in the 2024 Paul W. Spooner Generational Leadership Summit. The summit, hosted by the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council (MDDC), Disability Policy Consortium (DPC), and Boston Center for Read more…
Job Title:Project Intern/Research Assistant Organization:The Consortium/Massachusetts West Region Self Advocacy Location:Holyoke, MA (Remote/Hybrid options available) Position Type:Internship – For Academic Credit (Part-time, 10-15 hours/week) Becoming a Sexual Self Advocate, a project of Massachusetts West Region Self Advocacy, aims to enhance the quality of life for adults with intellectual and developmental Read more…
Arrival and Parking The event is located at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in downtown Springfield. We’ll be on the third floor. The registration/check-in window starts at 9am and ends at 10am. Please plan to arrive by 9:45 at the latest. You are asked to park in either the Sheraton Read more…
Please join us as we celebrate 20 years of learning and connecting at the Annual West Region Self Advocacy Conference! Saturday June 29th 2024 Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel Questions? Contact: Amber Pettell, Peer Coordinator Phone: (413) 535-6999 Email: apettell@wmtcinfo.org
The theme for this year’s event is Healthy Connections! Are you interested in acting as the Keynote Speaker and sharing your story with everyone at the conference? Do you have valuable skills that you can teach others in a workshop? Download the forms below to get involved!