Paraquad has joined with other organizations that seek to remove barriers for people with disabilities to ask Metro for a six-month delay in implementing the cuts and for conversations to seek a different solution.

As August comes to an end and the war in Ukraine reaches its six-month mark, the majority of people with disabilities continue to face abandonment and imminent danger by Russian soldiers as humanitarian groups struggle to evacuate them from their war-ravaged homeland.

Paraquad in St. Louis has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant for training advocates and self-advocates to provide comprehensive sexuality education to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a group often excluded from any discussion of human sexuality.

MOSILC has developed this Community Needs Assessment to gather information about your community’s opinions, needs, and challenges for people with disabilities. It is MOSILC’s hope that by gathering this information it will provide MOSILC with important information on how to support people with disabilities within your community.