News and notes from AMD, 13 September 2019

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf:

• AAPD 2020 Summer Internships
  

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AMD

• Review: A Week in the Life
• Wisdom
• NDY: Choice of no care or death 
  
• Ableism and disability prejudice
• Straighten up and fly right
  
• EDAN seeks papers on disability and change 
  
• Wabi sabi teacups
• NYT Disability: The Dignity of Disabled Lives 
  

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DHM/UMCD

• New series, "Life and Deaf"
• ASL at Minnesota State Fair
• Hearing Less, Understanding More
• ALDA seeking nominations: 2019 Volunteer/Organization Awards
• ASL praise at Lovers Lane
• Dinner and Disaster
• It was a beautiful blue sky that morning
  

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DMC

• Improved mobility, a gift that transforms lives (UMCOR)
• Ohio UMC employment training
• Giving permission to be you
• Dear Church, People with Disabilities Matter 
  
• NPR, Writers on Disability
• Ability Ministry: We can do better! 
  

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MHM

• Mental Health Ministries Video: Suicide: Healing After the Death of a Loved One
• Suicide Prevention Week
  
• National Recovery Month
• World Suicide Prevention Day
• Never Lose Hope
  

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