Young Ocean Explorers: Diving into the 3rd Annual LSG/Explora Summer Camp
This past July, LSG met two awesome groups of young neurodivergent campers at Explora, and it was another successful summer camp in the books! Each year?s camp has built beautifully upon the last and brought its own innovations to the content and structure of what the kiddos learn. For the theme this year, we journeyed […]
Share Your Success Story Proudly: The 1st Annual LSG Employment Celebration
Greetings, everyone ? long time, no blog! First off, apologies for my lengthy absence: In the past several months, I made my foray into the realm of job coaching and job development. I could definitely devote a whole other blog post to that experience, and I likely will soon. What I can say right off […]
Remember the Explora Summer Camp from Last Year? Here?s the Successful Sequel!
For two weeks at the Explora Science Center, about a dozen neurodivergent kiddos got to become ?mad scientists.? One major objective that our camp instructors had for the kids was to present the five branches of chemistry: analytical, physical, organic, inorganic, and biochemistry. Under those five categories, each young scientist got to create wondrous chemical […]
Brief Update: New ?Success Story? Series in UNTAPPED Section!
This past July, I embarked on an exciting project for LSG/UNTAPPED. Several of our clients have achieved successful job placement in recent months, and now we have the opportunity to showcase those incredible individuals! My first interview for this ?Success Story? series was with Nicolas Rodriguez, a young man on the autism spectrum who has […]
What ?Work Family? Truly Means: Good Memories from the LSG Staff Retreat
If you?re reading this, you probably know something of how LSG has several professionals assigned at various locations across New Mexico. Our staff runs the gamut of disability services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, social work, and so forth?but there?s a good chance you knew that as well. But did you also know that […]
DiverseABILITY Outreach and Social Anxiety at an Albuquerque Job Fair
I was a bundle of frayed nerves as my LSG colleagues and I set up our booth at the Diversity Job Fair on May 26th. But, if you were to ask me why, I wouldn?t have been able to tell you for sure. All I knew is that there was an eclectic multitude of programs […]
The Acorn and the Hammer: Reflecting on Our Day of Storytelling in the South Valley
It?s approaching 3:00 PM, and our second-ever RoundABLE discussion panel is coming to a close. I twirl a simple acorn in my hand as I listen to the panelists and a few audience members talk through the topics that mean the most to them; we have definitely gone overtime. But, despite other LSG team members […]
The DiverseABILITY Stories That Challenge the Big Narrative
As you are no doubt aware, conversations about disability are peppered with loads of skewed perspectives. Very frequently, the meaning of the term ?disability? ends up warped or burlesqued, and there are a lot of common ?profiles? that get thrown around. In one of my previous posts, I briefly discussed how disability is often equated […]
The Evolution of Occupational Justice through UNTAPPED
This past Thursday, March 9th, the UNTAPPED team and I took a brief trip to the New Mexico state capitol, the ?Roundhouse? up in Santa Fe. While there, we wanted to touch base with the legislators who have supported our advocacy process for the UNTAPPED program. Our vision for expanding our ability to serve New […]
Championing the DiverseABILITY Cause at the Roundhouse
Some of you might remember when I posted about Section 14(c) and the issue of subminimum wage still plaguing our country today; the fact that diverseABLED workers are treated even now as if they are only worth mere pennies per hour is a farce. To recap, New Mexico has not yet repealed their subminimum wage […]