Resources
The resources below are drawn from on-campus and local supports, co-organizers, community of partners, facilitators, and supporters. These include primary source materials, sample lesson plans, and links to additional materials. This list will be updated throughout the seminar to reflect current, upcoming, and previously held events.
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A non-exhaustive list of on-campus resources, support, and consultative services to enrolled and eligible undergraduate and graduate students. Included are contacts for disability services, medical care, crisis intervention, confidential legal consultation, no-cost food resources, and more.
Student Health and Wellness
- Rutgers–Newark Office of Disability Services
- Rutgers–Newark Student Health Services
- Rutgers–Newark Counseling Center
- Rutgers University Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance
- RU–N Pantry+
Financial Aid, Legal Clinics, and LGBTQ+ Resources
- Rutgers–Newark Office of Financial Aid
- Rutgers–Newark Office of Undocumented Student Services
- Rutgers Immigrant Community Assistance Project
- Rutgers Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Rutgers–Newark Resources for Undocumented Students
- Rutgers–Newark Intercultural Resource Center
- Rutgers–Newark Affairs LGBTQ+ Student Services
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A non-exhaustive list of local, state, and county resources, including contacts for medical care, crisis intervention, home energy assistance, immigration assistance, early-childhood education, housing counseling, food resources, and more.
Health and Wellness
- La Casa de Don Pedro, Inc.
- NIA Newark Specialty Pantry Monthly
- ICNA Relief New Jersey
- Newark Community Health Centers, Inc
- Essex County Food Pantries
- United Community Corporation Newark Food & Clothing Pantry
Financial Aid, Legal Clinics, and LGBTQ+ Resources
- Newark LGBTQ Community Center
- African American Office of Gay Concerns
- Project Wow North Jersey Community Research Initiative
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark – Immigrant and Refugee Services
- American Friends Service Committee – New Jersey Immigrant Rights
- Newark Public Library
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Dominant definitions of disability have deferred to the “expert knows best” over the person themselves, which often leaves out the perspectives of those most impacted. Disability justice is a transformative pathway to creating person-centered practices, policies, and systems. Resources include a range of insights from activists, advocates, and researchers.
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Supports offers learners recommendations for developing inclusive and person-centered practices when interacting with people with disabilities. Resources help learners develop disability etiquette, including action-oriented efforts to create mindful and affirmative interactions.
- Disability Etiquette and Affirmative Interaction
- Ability 360 Disability Etiquette Tips
- United Spinal Association
- Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association Disability Etiquette
Resources offer learners applicable guidelines for inclusive communication when talking with and about individuals with disabilities. Resources offer examples of inclusive and first-person language.
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Zine-Making Pen Pal Resources
Resources provide learners with an awareness of how disabled liberation and a world free of confinement are interconnected. The SickofIt! project is a cross-movement project that amplifies the voices of incarcerated disabled people through zines and letter-writing.
Websites:
- SickofIt!
- Innocence Project How to Write People Who are Incarcerated
- Letters for Liberation
- Prison Correspondence Project
- Liat Ben-Moshe Decarcerating Disability Publications
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A non-exhaustive list of resources shared at the two-day, Aftermaths of War events held on November 12, 2024 and November 13, 2024 including contacts, poetry, podcasts, and documentaries.
Websites:
- Historias para lo que viene Documentary by Catalina Muñoz
- Guantánamo Public Memory Project Multimedia Project by Liz Ševčenko
- Poets.org Poems by Sinan Antoon
- The Philippines and the University of Michigan, 1870-1935, Multimedia Project curated by Deirdre de la Cruz
- Preserving Palestinian History through Tatreez Podcast by Wafa Ghnaim
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