{"id":21253,"date":"2018-03-23T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2018-03-21T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:33:04","slug":"developmental-disabilities-awareness-advocacy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/developmental-disabilities-awareness-advocacy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental Disabilities Awareness & Advocacy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured here are (L to R): Jessica Reinhart, Paulding County Board of DD, Senator Rob McColley, District 1 State Senator, Anna Rickels, Self Advocate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Developmental Disabilities Awareness and Advocacy Day was held at the Ohio State House on March 7, 2018.\u00a0 Every year March is celebrated as National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.\u00a0 This year\u2019s theme is, \u201cCelebrate CommUNITY.\u201d\u00a0 CommUNITY means people with and without disabilities working, going to school, playing and participating in their communities together.<\/p>\n

The day was filled with individuals speaking on how they celebrate community through advocacy, art, working in their community and serving individuals.\u00a0 Appointments with State Legislators scheduled for individuals to speak about issues that are important to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Developmental Disabilities Awareness and Advocacy Day was held at the Ohio State House on March 7, 2018.\u00a0 Every year March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,499],"tags":[339,9885,9887,9886],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-health","tag-community-2","tag-developmental-disabilities-awareness-and-advocacy-day","tag-national-developmental-disabilities-awareness-month","tag-ohio-state-house"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t