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  • Breaking Ground 112 - Accessible Recreation
    • ABLE Youth: Skills for Sports, Skills for Life
    • STRIVE4You Inclusive Sports and Fitness
    • Harvesting Inclusive Play
    • Skydiving: My Unforgettable Adventure
    • We Rock The Spectrum
    • New Tool for Behavioral Health: Behavior Support Checklist
    • A First in Baseball History
  • Breaking Ground 111
    • Breaking Ground 111 - Education Watch
    • Breaking Ground 111 - Autism at Work
    • Breaking Ground 111 - 5 Ways to Help Your Child Get Ready for Adulthood
    • Breaking Ground 111 - An Insider’s View of Inclusive Higher Education
    • Breaking Ground 111 - TN Disability Pathfinder Upgrade
    • Breaking Ground 111 - Have you heard about MAPs?
    • Breaking Ground 111 - Precious Cargo Act
    • Breaking Ground 111 - Meet new members
  • Breaking Ground 110 - Get to Know Us
    • Breaking Ground 110 - Council Staff Profiles
    • Breaking Ground 110 - Two Restorations
    • Breaking Ground 110 - Katie Beckett Stories
    • Breaking Ground 110 - Dancing our way to health and confidence
  • Breaking Ground 109 Arts
    • Fine Art (A-M artist last name)
    • Fine Art (N-Z artist last name)
    • Short story: The Shadows of Castille de Magnus
    • Essay: Honest Directions for Wheelchair Users
    • Poem: Conquering the Beyond
    • My Hands Are My Eyes
    • Let’s MOVE! - Inclusive Dance program
    • All-Access Inclusion Network
    • Steal Away: Soul Connection Through Dance and Music
    • Bringing Theatre to All
    • Inspired by the Masters: A Fresh View of Fashion History
  • Breaking Ground 108 - Celebrating Wanda Willis' Legacy
    • Breaking Ground 108 - In Their Own Words
    • Breaking Ground 108 - Forward Together: A 33-Year Legacy
    • Breaking Ground 108 - Art of Collaboration
    • Breaking Ground 108 - 5 Years of Impact
    • Breaking Ground 108 - Big Solutions for Real Needs
    • Breaking Ground 108 - The Next Frontier
  • Breaking Ground 107
    • Breaking Ground 107 - How to Use Technology for Connection and Independence
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Keeping the Peace with Google Home
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Podcast: "The Landscape” of Disability
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Project Search: The Place for Opportunity
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Transformation at Every Level: Change Comes to VR
    • Breaking Ground 107 - VR business services match employers to workers
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Rosie Roaming: Have Wheels, Will Travel
    • Breaking Ground 107- New Center for Decision-Making Support
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Stories from Family Support
    • Breaking Ground 107 - Enabling Tech Paves a Path to Independence
  • Breaking Ground 106
    • Breaking Ground 106 Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 106 - TN Inclusive Higher Education Alliance
    • Breaking Ground 106 - The FUTURE is Now at University of Tennessee
    • Breaking Ground 106 - Internships During COVID Pandemic
    • Breaking Ground 106 - First Next Steps Class 10 Years Later
    • Breaking Ground 106 - Plant for a Change: A SustainABLE Business Takes Root
    • Breaking Ground 106 - Finding my path in a pandemic
    • Breaking Ground 106 - TennCare Internship Puts Employment Values to Work
    • Breaking Ground 106 - TDOT Office of Mobility and Accessible Transportation
  • Breaking Ground 105 Arts
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Introductions
    • Breaking Ground 105 - Vanderbilt’s Adaptive Fashion Lab
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Poetry
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - AbleVoices: I AM DETERMINED!
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Art in the Digital Landscape
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Artful Connections
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Visual Artwork
    • Breaking Ground 105 Arts - Outlawed [Short Story]
  • Breaking Ground 104 - COVID-19
    • Breaking Ground 104 Introduction- COVID-19
    • Breaking Ground 104 - How the Pandemic Changed Pathfinder
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Growing Independence Through Technology
    • Breaking Ground 104 - New TN Crisis Care Policy
    • Breaking Ground 104 - How I Used My Voice During COVID
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Stories of Working during the Pandemic
    • Breaking Ground 104 - New TN Center for Decision-Making Support
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Virtual Early Intervention
    • Breaking Ground 104 - TCAD: Meeting Needs in a Pandemic
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Pressing On: Technology and the Pandemic
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Supporting Siblings During Challenging Times
    • Breaking Ground 104 - Call for Artwork for 2021
  • Breaking Ground 103
    • Breaking Ground 103 - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 103 - ABLE Act Turns Five Years Old
    • Breaking Ground 103 - Ensuring Clear Communication: TEIS Transition Continues
    • Breaking Ground 103 - COVID-19 Special Grants
    • Breaking Ground 103 - Disability Rights TN Client Assistance Program
    • Breaking Ground 103 - Looking Back, Forward: 30 Years of the ADA
    • Breaking Ground 103 - Changing Minds and Systems - New Council Grants
    • Breaking Ground 103 - All About IEPs - Tips from a Specialist and a Parent/Teacher
  • Breaking Ground 102
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Council Role in Crisis
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Your Input Can Shape the Council’s Work
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Searching for Silver Linings in COVID Times
    • Breaking Ground 102 - New Vanderbilt Centers Prepare for Employment
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Accessibility and Dignity in Public Restrooms
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Katie Beckett Waiver: What do families need to know?
    • Breaking Ground 102 - A Will to Farm: TN AgrAbility
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Reflections from Lauren McCabe, Council Intern
    • Breaking Ground 102 - Five Things I’ve Learned about Self-Advocacy
  • Breaking Ground 101 - Be Heard, Be Counted
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Teaching Empathy
    • Breaking Ground 101 - My Path Back to Career after Traumatic Brain Injury
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Tennessee Deaf Mentor Program
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Voting is Power
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Why the Census Matters
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Disability Day on the Hill
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Tikkun Olam Makers: Vanderbilt
    • Breaking Ground 101 - Meet our New Leadership Development Director
    • Breaking Ground 101 - DIDD Report on TN’s Early Intervention System, Katie Beckett Program
  • Breaking Ground 100 Arts
    • Breaking Ground 100 Arts - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 100 Arts - Fine Arts Selections
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Andrew Braach: Traditional country singer
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Indicator Art
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Poetry by April Meredith
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Brent Redmond’s Four-Wheel Art
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Poetry: Make Believe
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Poetry: Life on the Spectrum
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Telling Stories through Art
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Disability Arts Access in Rural Tennessee
    • Breaking Ground 100 - A Beautiful Legacy: Tabitha West
    • Breaking Ground 100 - Poetry Collection
  • Breaking Ground 99 - Technology
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Living in a Smart Home
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Aira
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Anita and Technology at Work
    • Breaking Ground 99 - A Calm Place through Technology
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Growing a Business through Technology
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Technology in My Life
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Youth Leadership Academy 2019
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Technology and an Unexpected Life Change
    • Breaking Ground 99 - Ned Andrew Solomon Retirement
  • Breaking Ground 98
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Tennessee Business Enterprise
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Thoughts about Relationships
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Austin Peay's Full Spectrum Learning program
    • Breaking Ground 98 - AbleVoices
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Closing the Disability Voting Gap
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Story Time with a Twist
    • Breaking Ground 98 - Tabletop Role-Playing
    • Breaking Ground 98- Tennessee Talks
    • Breaking Ground 98 - UHC Pathways internship program
    • Breaking Ground 98 - New Council Members
  • Breaking Ground 97
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Partners Reunion 2019
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Project SEARCH: A path to the future
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Chyna's Journey through ECF CHOICES
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Empowered Ladies
    • Breaking Ground 97 - 2018-19 Partners in Policymaking Class Graduates
    • Breaking Ground 97 - People First of TN
    • Breaking Ground 97 - MyRide TN
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Getting a Life Back with Technology
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Tennesseans of All Stripes Come together for Children with Significant Needs
    • Breaking Ground 97 - Flying the Friendly Skies
  • Breaking Ground 96
    • Breaking Ground 96 - Edward Mitchell, ABLE Ambassador
    • Breaking Ground 96 - Using Enabling Technology
    • Breaking Ground 96 - TriStar Centennial Sensory-Friendly Rooms
    • Breaking Ground 96 - TN DD Network Collaboration
    • Breaking Ground 96 - Disability Leadership Academy Year 2
    • Breaking Ground 96 - Have You Heard? TRC-Smyrna is Changing!
    • Breaking Ground 96 - My Brother Does Not Speak, but Supported Decision-Making Can Still Work
    • Breaking Ground 96 - Deaf Children, Hearing Parents, One World
  • Breaking Ground 95 Arts issue
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Fine Art
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Poetry
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Writing Cowboy Dreams
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Penny Candy
    • Breaking Ground 95 - Unmasking Brain Injury
    • Breaking Ground 95 -Changing Lives through Art
  • Breaking Ground 94
    • Breaking Ground 94 Introduction
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Oris G. Bowen Breaks Employment Ground
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Gaining Skills for the Real World
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Kathleen Lehigh: a Ninja Librarian’s Quest for a Career
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Where Enabling Technology Meets Employment
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Student with Autism Achieves Success through Social Skills Training
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Tyler Bates: An “Employment and Community First” Success Story
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Remembering Dr. Thomas Cheetham
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Youth Leadership Academy 2018
    • Breaking Ground 94 - New Council Staff and Member
    • Breaking Ground 94 - 2018-19 Partners in Policymaking Class
    • Breaking Ground 94 - Teaching the Next Generation of Leaders about Caring
  • Breaking Ground 93
    • Breaking Ground 93 - Reimagining Supports for Families
    • Breaking Ground 93 - A Tool for Helping People Have Good Lives
    • Breaking Ground 93 - Chattanooga Programs Promote Safety
    • Breaking Ground 93 - Borderless Arts Breaks Ground in Egypt
    • Breaking Ground 93 - Inclusion is a Right
    • Breaking Ground 93 - East Tennessee Project Search
    • Breaking Ground 93 - Siblings in the Spotlight
  • Breaking Ground 92
    • Breaking Ground 92 - 55 Years of the DD Act
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Career Connections
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Camp EmPower, MePower
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Enabling Technology: Modernizing supports for people with disabilities
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Enabling Technology: A parent’s perspective
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Partners 2017-18 Class Graduates
    • Breaking Ground 92 - What Independent Living Is (and is not)
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Partners 2018 Annual Reunion Conference
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Martin McGrath: An independent living story
    • Breaking Ground 92 - Remembering Council Member and Partners Graduate Douglass Hall
    • Breaking Ground 92 - New Member Craig Lemak
  • Breaking Ground 91 - 2018 Arts Issue
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Introductions
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Compilation of Visual Artwork
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Dance is a Universal Language
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Tunes and Teens
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - To My Battered Sisters
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Harmony's Song
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Lessons
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Much Ado about Mosaics
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Juggling Words
    • Breaking Ground 91 Arts - Boundless: Fashion for Every Body
  • Breaking Ground #90
    • Breaking Ground 90 - What's Cooking at TSU Extension?
    • Breaking Ground #90 - TSU Extension Program
    • Breaking Ground 90 - Project SEARCH at Progress
    • Breaking Ground 90 - Parent Perspective on ECF CHOICES
    • Breaking Ground 90 - Expanding the Workforce through Internships
    • Breaking Ground 90 - Leadership Academy for Excellence in Disability Services
    • Breaking Ground 90 - Transition Tennessee
    • Breaking Ground #90 - Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences
    • Breaking Ground 90 - New Council Members
    • Breaking Ground 90 - New Staff at TennCare

Breaking Ground 102 - May 2020


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Breaking Ground 102

  • Breaking Ground 102 - Introduction
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Council Role in Crisis
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Your Input Can Shape the Council’s Work
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Searching for Silver Linings in COVID Times
  • Breaking Ground 102 - New Vanderbilt Centers Prepare for Employment
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Accessibility and Dignity in Public Restrooms
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Katie Beckett Waiver: What do families need to know?
  • Breaking Ground 102 - A Will to Farm: TN AgrAbility
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Reflections from Lauren McCabe, Council Intern
  • Breaking Ground 102 - Five Things I’ve Learned about Self-Advocacy
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