May is Mental Health Awareness Month.  It comes at a time when many people are experiencing anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The upside is that we are experiencing a shift in public perception of mental health.  Resources are… Read More “Mental Health Awareness Month – May 2020”

Systematically, people with disabilities have been put to the side with little to no consideration of their need for equal access.  During this time of COVID-19, new guidelines on how we interact with one another have once again failed to… Read More “Mask-Wearing/Social Distancing for People who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing or Deaf-Blind”

The Governor’s PAUSE Act, which shut down non-essential businesses on March 22, does not apply to Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA). Fiscal Intermediaries and Personal Assistants are considered essential healthcare workers. The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA) Program is a… Read More “CDPA Program Personal Assistants are Essential Healthcare Workers”

Social Distancing and Isolation are critical strategies for combating the spread of what we now face as COVID-19. However, social isolation is dangerous and in fact, for far too long, people with disabilities, including those with mental health concerns, as… Read More “BRIDGES is committed to our Community despite our current environment!”