Key to the City for our 30 Years!
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Friend,
Today, you're invited to Celebrate with us as we
honor 30 years of service to our disability community. Keep
reading for details:
Able
South Carolina Celebrates 30 Years of Service
Proclamation and Key to the
City to be presented by Columbia, SC Mayor, reveal of Bull
Street history digital exhibit
Able South Carolina (Able SC) will celebrate its
30 years of service to the state of South Carolina at a public
press conference event on Monday, March 4, 2024, at 3 pm at
their Columbia, SC office found on 720 Gracern Road, Suite 106. The event will feature a proclamation and
presentation of the key to the City of Columbia from Mayor
Rickenmann, the reveal of a digital history exhibit, and a
presentation of the Caravan for Disability Justice and Freedom.
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Caravan
for Disability Justice and Freedom:
The Caravan for
Disability Justice and Freedom, a collective of people
with disabilities and allies traveling across America to
commemorate cities significant to disability history,
will also be present at the event. Their participation
aims to shed light on both historical injustices, such as
institutionalization, and ongoing advocacy efforts,
including Able SC’s support for legislative measures like
S.915, the “Public Health/Agency Restructuring Bill,”
which contains an amendment to prioritize community integration
for people with disabilities.
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Bull Street
Digital History Exhibit:
As part of the
celebration, Able SC will unveil a digital exhibit
project titled "People, Not Patients," in
collaboration with Historic Columbia, highlighting the
lives of some of those first institutionalized in the
South Carolina State Hospital on Bull Street. Kimberly
Tissot, Able SC’s president and CEO, expressed the vision
behind this initiative: "Our vision is to create a
South Carolina that is a national model of equity and
inclusion for all people with disabilities. This includes
illuminating the truth of our painful past to develop a
brighter future."
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Join us today:
"After 30 years of service to the
community, we invite the public to join us in imagining what
our next 30 years could bring," shared Tissot. The press
conference event will take place on Monday, March 4, at 3 pm at
Able South Carolina, 720 Gracern Road, suite 106, Columbia, SC.
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Able South Carolina
720 Gracern Road Suite
106 | Columbia, South Carolina 29210
803.779.5121 | advocacy@able-sc.org
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