Student Coalition for Disability Rights at UC Berkeley

07/28/2020

One of Cal Alumni Association’s scholarships, The Leadership Award, is due on August 9th, 2020 at midnight. This opportunity is for continuing UC Berkeley students (as opposed to Freshmen/Transfers) and is a $2000/year scholarship. Apply now!

More information and application found here: https://alumni.berkeley.edu/community/scholarships/leadership-award

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Established in 1934, The Leadership Award is a one-year, merit-based scholarship that recognizes undergraduate students at UC Berkeley who demonstrate innovative, initiative-driven leadership impacting their academic, work, or community environments. Students compete for the scholarship every year,....

06/22/2020

Big news from our broader Committee!

12/11/2019

"As of right now, there is no emergency plan for disabled students at UC San Diego." Sound familiar?

Solidarity with Disability Justice - UC San Diego! These folks are doing great work in emergency planning for disabled people.

University of California, Berkeley should take notes.
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[Image description: Graphic shows Geisel Library, one of the most iconic buildings at UC San Diego, surrounded below by orange flames and two upheld signs. One sign states: 'I deserve the right to keep myself safe.' A second sign note: 'Emergency Planning Should be Accessible.'

Below this, in black letters against an orange background:

Emergency Planning for Disabled Students:
UCSD, We Should Not be Left Behind During an Emergency

As of right now, UC San Diego has no official emergency plan for disabled students who live on and off-campus. In response. the Student Sustainability Collective has created an emergency plan proposal to be presented to teh director of OSD, the director of HDH, and other admin. We need students, professors, faculty, and other allies to come in support and hold the university accountable.

Fill out this sign-up form to support us as we present the emergency plan proposal on Wednesday Dec 11, 2019:

https://tinyurl.com/EmergencyPlan4All]

CALL TO ACTION!! As of right now, there is no emergency plan for disabled students at UC San Diego. As a public university, this is unacceptable. Please support our students as we take steps in creating a more inclusive and accessible campus for all of us.

Here's the link to sign up and help: https://tinyurl.com/EmergencyPlan4All

10/27/2019

Dear Disabled Community,

For the past month, I have been working with Rec Sports to bring wheelchair soccer to the UC Berkeley campus. I have an interest to expand the sport both recreationally and competitively on our campus and possibly on other college campuses. In order to start embarking on the project, I would like to identify people on campus who are interested in learning/playing the sport and/or who are interested in advocating for it. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate it if you all would take 10-15 minutes of your time and, if interested, to please fill out the interest form below. This information will let me know if the community would be interested.

Thank you!

Carlos C. Vázquez

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_t9lK1HNpmD1rYHSKDCBHdLms5vEKvpFIU1WbagLerk (use Berkeley email )

10/27/2019

Updates and disability resources for the current power outage -- please share and add!

Updates and Disability Resources for October Power Outage Resources tl;dr Student Affairs power outage page DAC Update #3 DAC Update #2 DAC Update #1 Administration Update #1 Contact Info Resources Student Affairs power outage page Includes info about food, medicine, and charging resources Map...

07/25/2019

I'm honestly speechless... 🤣

07/07/2019

Just found this in my Recommendations on YouTube. It's worth every second to listen to it. 😂😂😂

★ DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR STORY ANIMATED? SEND IT TO [email protected] IT WILL BE GIVEN A VOICE OVER BY A PROFESSIONAL ACTOR AND AN ANIMATOR WILL MAKE A VIDEO OUT ...

04/16/2019

Students have already discovered that their providers, such as therapists, will no longer accept SHIP as payment now that Blue Shield is the carrier.