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09/23/2025

Craft and Chat Returns October 3rd!

1pm Eastern/Noon Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific

Bring your craft project (or not) to this informal chat on the first Friday of the month.

Our facilitator: Rev Suzanne Fast

Connection Link: TBA

09/05/2025

From the Disability Visibility Project

“Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions Jess Whatcott For the staff at the Peer Self-Advocacy Program of Disability Rights California, e…

08/29/2025

It’s the bright beginning of a new church year and a perfect time to try out new programs, or incorporate new practices into ones your congregation already knows and loves! The ideas shared during our UPLIFT Access Resource Webinar at the end of the last church year may be just what you need to start off this one.
See Uplift Access webinars for more information

Learn how to be more accessible and inclusive of your congregation’s disabled members and visitors.

07/25/2025

Hot news from Uplift Access July edition online.

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07/02/2025

July is Disability Pride Month. The Arc’s National Council of Self-Advocates selected the 2025 Disability Pride Month theme: We Belong Here, and We’re Here to Stay. It delivers a powerful message—people with disabilities are a vital part of every community. Not someday. Not conditionally. Now.
As disability rights face growing threats in education, employment, health care, and public life, this year’s theme is a clear call to action. It pushes back against ableism—discrimination and bias against people with disabilities—and exclusion. It reminds us that people with disabilities will not be erased, ignored, or pushed aside.

06/12/2025

UPLIFT Access Community Gathering
Thursday, June 19th @ 3:00pm EDT

Join Gretchen Maune, the UUA’s Accessibility Resources Coordinator, to learn how UPLIFT Access can benefit your congregation—come with questions, leave with answers.

ASL, CART, and visual descriptions will be provided.

As Accessibility Resources Coordinator, Gretchen provides virtual resources for Unitarian Universalist congregational and organizational leaders to create spaces, events, programs and communities which are accessible and inclusive to disabled participants.

Join in-person in room 327 in the Baltimore Convention Center or register for the Zoom. https://uua.zoom.us/meeting/register/U__NU9EYT8e_Th5v-lgFrA?emci=1afb113d-1743-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=a8b37465-f443-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=27981369 #/registration

05/14/2025

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD and much more news in the May issue of the UUA Uplift Access Newsletter.

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04/20/2025

Uplift Access April News

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03/15/2025

If you reimagined the world how would your life change?

01/12/2025

Disabled people often have complex relationships with religion and spirituality. Religious texts and traditions sometimes portray disability as a trial or a tragedy. They often envision healing in ways that rub hard against lived disability experience -- or imagine disability as nothing more than a "challenge" to overcome. For many disabled people, religious communities can both be a source of solace and a site of pain.

But when disabled people center our own lives and lived experiences, we often tell very different stories. In this writing workshop, we'll explore these possibilities with Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, a disability theologian and disability activist who is the author of Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole.

imagine a liberatory relationship between religion and disability in this writing workshop

11/19/2024

Register for UPLIFT Access Resource Webinars. These webinars provide useful information. Come, ask questions, and pass on what you learn to leaders in your congregation and disability justice co-conspirators.

06/19/2024

Action alert:
The public has spent weeks issuing comments letting the FDA know they want to - now Congress wants to prevent the FDA from listening. Call today and say NO to Section 722 of the Agriculture FDA Appropriations bill!

Last week, we wrote to you about a bill that was being voted on in a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. The bill is the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Some Members of Congress added a new section to the bill, Section....